Using Your Apple In-Ear Headphones In Mac OS X

Did you pick up a pair of Apple's new In-Ear Headphones for your iPod? Unlike the stock ear buds, these babies go right in your ear canal and block out the sounds around you. The audio quality is also much improved.

The coolest feature of these headphones, however, is the small remote control built-in to the wire. When used with a current generation iPod, you can control the volume, pause/play your music, and even skip tracks. As it turns out, this feature isn't exclusive to iPods. They also work with the new "unibody" MacBook and MacBook Pro.

If you have a unibody Macbook or MacBook Pro (the ones with the glass and black trim around the screen), that remote will work just fine when you are listening to music in iTunes.

A note to MacBook Air owners: Despite being considered unibody, the remote on the In-Ear Headphones do not work with the MacBook Air's headphone jack. You can still enjoy the sound from the headphones but the remote does not function. Bummer.