Touchpad Pro: A utility to control your computer

Now you can have multi-touch on your computer, even if you don't own a mac!

We all know that the iPod Touch and iPhone have great multi-touch capability. Since it's such a pleasure using multi-touch on the device we should be able to use it as a touchpad to control our computers. Touchpad pro makes this possible.

The Touchpad Pro app allows you to use your iPod touch or iPhone as a touch pad to control the mouse on your computer, just like a laptop, but wirelessly! With many other cool features.

Touchpad Pro is based on VNsea, so you'll need to set up a vnc server on your computer. If you need some help setting up a vnc server and configuring Touchpad Pro see my other post - Setting up Touchpad Pro.

Loading Screen

Main Screen

The main screen lists the configured servers (I only have one set up because I'm only using Touchpad pro to control one computer), and shows you the last time you logged in to each of them. If you use VNsea, Touchpad Pro will import your configurations to save you the trouble of entering them in again. If you want to add a new server you can do so by clicking the plus button on the top right. Logging on to one of the servers is easy just tap on it from the list. If you need to change any of the connection details you can click on the blue arrow.

Edit Server Screen

Here is where you enter your computer ip address, password, etc.

Preferences Screen

Here is where you can customize how Touchpad Pro will work for you.

• Allow Rotation - Turning this option on will allow you to turn your iPod Touch or iPhone on its side allowing you to have a wider touchpad.
• Flick Inertia - If this is turned on, when you flick you finger across the screen the mouse will smoothly glide after you lift your finger (This is a really good feature, it makes the mouse much easier to control.)
• Thumb Scrolling - On some laptop touchpads you can scroll by sliding your finger up and down the far right hand side of the touchpad. This enables that feature.
• Invert Scroll - Inverts the scroll. :-)
• Mac Mode - If your using a mac turn this on to enable right clicking and scrolling
  
• Quit on Suspend - This is a cool feature, it allows you to stay connected if you decide to return to the home screen. The icon on the spring board will have a red check mark added to it if you are currently connected.

Connected Screen

Keyboard Screen

Click on the keyboard icon to bring up the keyboard. (you can control the mouse AND the keyboard!)
As you are typing words they appear on the iPod Touch or iPhone screen too.

Help Screen

Remote Screen

The arrows act as the directional keys on the keyboard. "OK" acts as the enter key.
This is really useful for controlling programs like media player classic.


Overall this is a really cool iPod Touch / iPhone app. Its a lot of fun to use, and everyone I showed it to thought it was really cool. You can use it to have fun or to make life easier when controlling power point presentations.
The possibilities are endless...

Definitely worth the download.



- Scott

The Scott Zargold Report
http://www.zargold.com/

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