I don’t know whether it is a positive trend towards enhanced experiences or early signs of ADHD, but these days I have 3 screens with me in the living room. I am sitting on the sofa with the TV on, the laptop on my lap (or on the coffee table) and my mobile by my side.

James Celestino is a Boxee user who seems to share similar media consumption habits. He wanted an easy way to control Boxee from his laptop, so he built a very simple, intuitive and mighty useful widget.

James in his own words:

One of my favorite media applications to date is Boxee. While I was sitting on my couch one day watching some Rev3 shows, on Boxee, I wanted to turn up the volume a bit. Like many people with a lot of gadgets in their living room I couldn’t find the remote. It was the little apple remote for my mac mini which is what I run boxee on, which is connected to my HD TV. Easy to lose in the couch or under a table, etc. Like many Geeks, I think, I tend to watch TV with my laptop nearby. So I often end up launching screen sharing on my laptop to control the mac mini, a bit of overkill I thought. I went searching for a widget remote control for Boxee that I could run and do simple things like navigate and turn up the volume. I couldn’t find one. Which leads me to the creation of this page and its contents. Since I couldn’t find one, I decided to make one figuring I may not be the only one who might want this.

So here it is.

Life Hacker and Tech Startups already posted about it, and we will try to get the word out to our users, too. James is already receiving requests for additional features and for porting the widget to additional platforms (currently the widget only works on Mac, but you can use it to control Boxee running on any platform), so it should just get better.