Sebastian Suceeds with Telekinesis.
I was looking for a simple, easy way to control my Mac from my iPod Touch. I did a quick search an found a app called Telekinesis.
Telekinesis is an app of two parts, Thing 1 and Thing 2 (to quote Dr. Seuss). Thing 1 is the server side application that you run on your Mac, then you have an iPhone web-app.
To install Telekinesis you just open it. You won’t notice anything different except that it opens in your dock. You will be asked to create a user name and password. This is what you will have to type on your iPhone so don’t make it too hard to type.
The desktop application doesn’t really let to to anything on the Mac. It is only the server. When you want to control your Mac just make sure that it’s open. If you use mail, you might want to set up a rule that automatically opens Telekinesis when you send it a special message (I have it setup so that if I send myself a message with the subject of “MacMote” it opens Telekinisis).
To control your Mac go into MobileSafari and type https://[Your Mac's name].local:5010 . You will be prompted to accept a security certificate (do so) and then enter your username and password (from the previous paragraph).
You will then be presented with a screen of “tapps”. From here you can open applications, doccuments and more – both on your iPhone and on your Mac. Also, you can open the Screen tapp. This allows you to control your Mac’s screen from your iPhone!
Another great tapp us the camera tapp. This allows you to see what’s happening from the perspective of your Mac’s iSight camera. I use this in conjunction with the terminal app (yes there is terminal). The way I use it is I look through the camera and if I see anyone in my room, I go into terminal and make my Mac say “can I help you?” – that usually gives then a fright.
The development of Telekinesis seems to have slowed down a bit but it still works perfectly. If this is made into an app store app it would be fantastic – but I don’t see that happening any time soon.
There are many tapps built in to Telekinesis and you can download extras, but the best thing is the price, FREE!
Telekinesis is a great application and there’s so much that you can do with it. http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/
Oh, yeah, I've heard of this. I've used it some, but it seems, I dunno, to use useless code. Plus, I don't know when the last time it was updated. Who knows, maybe I'll do my own version or something.
Jason, isn't that what you always do though, you don't like an app, so you plan to do it yourself? *cough* OpenSong *cough*.
Well, it's just that I can think I can do a better job, or I think it would be cool to port something to the Mac. Something like that.
Seb, I've used this a fair few times and love it.