Remote Control Toys: PC through iPhone

Posted on March 4, 2008
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Touchpad Pro - super-app for managing PC from iPhone

Touchpar Pro is an incredibly useful, functional and cool application. It allows you to control our PC through iPhone – manage video- and audio-players, print, surf the Internet, manage presentations etc. It doesn’t matter what OS is installed on your PC - MacOS or Windows. In order to make all this work you have to install VNC Server on the controlled computer.

If you have Windows:

Download TightVNC — http://www.tightvnc.com and install it.
Launch VNC Server
Set the password to secure your connection to the server
Find out IP address of your computer (bubble help with an icon with the letter “V” in tray)

If you have MacOS:

MasOS already had pre-installed VNC - Screen Sharing or Apple Remote Desktop (on older versions of the OS). Go to System Preferences / Sharing
Turn on Screen Sharing or Apple Remote Desktop, you’ll see a pop-up window with your IP address. Remember it.
Turn on VNC settings and fill in the password

Installing Touchpad Pro:

Open Installer on your iPhone
If there is no reposition J Sherwani, add in the sources a new reposition J Sherwani: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jsherwan/iphone/. Refresh Sources.
Search for Touchpad Proв in the category Utilities and install it. The latest version available at the moment – 2.0

Setting Touchpad Pro:

Click on the icon “+” in the right upper corner of the screen
Enter any name like “homepc”
Enter IP address (which you have remembered when setting VNC Server). You can also enter the name of the host if you know it instead of IP address.
Enter the password
Click “save”

To connect with the PC click on the name of the profile which you entered while setting Touchpad Pro (“homepc”). If you have dome everything correctly, you will connect to the PC.

In order to manage the computer you will need so-called hot-keys: