The Macintosh Wizard And PC Tech Blog

Controlling your Mac or PC via another computer has been done since the early days of dial-up Internet.  Now, iPhone users are able to access even their PC’s.  The modified version of  TightVNC software, from an online user, is apparently able to work quite nicely according to reports.

The iPhone’s capability of zooming and panning are great for moving around the PC desktop.  The clicking, typing and drag and drop moves are also included and reported to be fully functional.  The user that modified the software is also giving all of the source code and information for this applications for free.

Continue reading iPhone VNC Software Modified To Show PC Desktop

iPod users are familiar with using their unused space for storing files.  Mac OS X and Windows users are able to do this with their iTunes and iPod software.  Unfortunately, iPhone users are not yet able to do this quite yet.

Continue reading iPhoneDrive from Ecamm Network Use iPhone As Flash Drive

iPhone’s recently purchased, now have a chance to be unlocked for free.  PQ Computing Inc., has released an “iPhone Unlock Tookit,” which activates the handset’s iPod and other features without needing an AT&T plan.  The current plans from AT&T lock the customer into a two year service agreement.  Breaking this agreement at any point during the two years requires payment of any and all past month’s bills and a hefty disconnect fee over $150.

Continue reading iPhone Activator Free From PQ Computing Inc

While in a AT&T Wireless store just a few hours ago, I was told from a sales person that the iPhone activation system was going to be down this entire weekend starting tomorrow.  This person went on to mention that I should either buy the iPhone today to get it activated, or purchase it on Monday so that I would be able to activate it then and not have to wait over the weekend.

Continue reading AT&T iPhone Activation May Be Shutdown This Weekend

Sources from Taiwan are coming out with some additional rumors about new iPhone versions along with a wireless audio system “that would allow music to be played directly from an iPod, iPhone, or range of Apple computers.” This news comes a day after another rumor about the iPhone Nano from another source inside of Taiwan. This rumor was quickly rebutted by JP Morgan here in the United States.

Continue reading iPhone for Business and Wireless Speakers Rumored

The iPhone Remote Buddy programmed with AJAX is in beta from IOSpirit.  This is yet another application released from the guidelines on the Apple iPhone Developer Site.  It appears to be another Safari add on program.  It has some interesting features listed below.

• Control more than 70 applications, system parameters and Remote Buddy itself.
• Live updating mini version of your desktop to reposition the mouse curson on screen.  It even has access to multiple screens, toggle Mousespot, perform mouse clicks or navigate your presentation.
• Type text on your Mac through the iPhone Safari browser.
• Access the fully configurable, powerful menu of Remote Buddy. It’s animated and AJAX-based.
• Browse the iTunes music library on your Mac through Remote Buddy by artist, album, playlists and tracks. Huge lists of entries are automatically broken up into A-Z categories.
• An interactive “now playing” display for iTunes, play, pause, skip tracks, change the rating of a song and see the cover art.
• Launches VIDEO_TS folders on the Mac through the iPhone by interfacing with Remote Buddy’s movie library.  The Movies section is showing any covers it can find and starts playback of the selection in DVD Player or VLC.
• Zap in EyeTV and start playback of its recordings.  Browse channels and recordings and see your Mac switch to them as you touch them.

Continue reading iPhone Remote Buddy AJAX Beta From IOSpirit