[ # ] Use the iPhone as a Remote Touchpad for Your Computer

/* Posted June 26th, 2008 at 12:21pm */
/* Filed under Apple, Apps, Networking, PC, iPhone */

The Touchpad Pro app for the iPhone developed by Jahanzeb Sherwani will turn your iPhone into a wireless, remote trackpad, which gives you direct access to your computer as if you were using a mouse or touch device for input. The latest native iPhone application Touchpad Pro app is based entirely on VNsea.

You can do just about anything on your iPhone as a wireless touchpad as you could with the touchpad on your computer. You can move the mouse around, click, double-click, and even drag (double click but keep it pressed and then move around). Vertical scrolling is even possible, by click-and-dragging on the right edge of the iPhone screen. You can thus use it to control videos, show pictures, or advance slides in a presentation.

To install the native iPhone Application you will need to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch. Here are instructions on how to to install Touchpad app:

First you need to jailbreak your iPhone to allow third-party applications to be installed.
Add the repository required to install Touchpad to your Installer.
- Click on the Installer Icon.
- Skip to step 3 to see if you already have Touchpad Pro in your sources. Otherwise follow these steps and click on the “Sources” icon at the bottom.
- Click “Edit”.
- Click “Add”.
- Enter: “http://cnp.qlnk.net/”.
- Click “OK”.
Install Touchpad Pro from the Utilities category.
Install VNC on the machine you want to control and get your PC’s IP address from the taskbar icon when you finish.
Launch Touchpad Pro
On the VNC servers page click the “+” icon