The iPhone and iPod Touch are like fine wines, they just keep getting better with time.  More uses are found for them every day and here’s something that I didn’t even think of.  It’s now possible to use them as a wireless touchpad for your PC or Mac.

You will need a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch with Installer.app installed.  On your PC or Mac you will need VNC installed on the machine you wish to control.  According to the developer you will also need to edit the sources of Installer.app for it to function correctly.

Touchpadiphone has all the instructions.  After following them you will be able to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a wireless touchpad.  All the normal functions of a touchpad, click, doubleclick, drag and drop and even scroll, are included.

Mac users should follow these instructions.

The only question is, what’s next for these devices.  I’m sure that orientation sensor they have could be put to other uses.  Apple should consider including the wireless touchpad functionality in future models, I can see that being very useful for some people.

Of course, jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch comes with risks which may require you to try several times or having to restore it through iTunes.

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Entry was posted on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 at 7:23 am under Hacks, How-to, News, iPhone, iPod Touch.  Print This Post

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