Use iPhone as a touchpad for your computer

02/23/08

Posted under Apps, Hacks, iPhone

I’ve gotten used to using bluetooth, my old phone and Salling Clicker to control my presentations, and sorely miss the functionality in the iPhone.

Enter Touchpad, which turns jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches into a wireless touchpad control for Macs, Windows and Linux computers. All the usual trackpad functions are there, plus right-edge page scrolling. Cool!

Someone named Jahanzeb Sherwani created Touchpad from VNSea. All you need do is add the http://cnp.qlnk.net/ repository to Installer.app, download and install it, and follow Sherwani’s instructions on how to install and enable VNC on the computer you choose to use Touchpad on.

Visit Jahanzeb’s developer page here for more details and instructions, even a video.

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