It's also on Engadget now:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/21/mira-software-lets-all-macs-use-apple-remote/

Though they claim it isn't a perfect solution since you need an external IR reciever. I guess they expected your software to include nanobots sent through the tubes to build an internal IR reciever into the Mac. Can we expect that in 2.0?