Make Your iPhone a Touchpad!

Not everyone would think of it, but you may have. Ever wanted to use your iPhone as a mobile touchpad for your PC? Imagine using the iPhone to control the mouse cursor for your PC, while it sits across the room, while you're presenting something to your boss via a projection. Yeah, that's handy.

Directly from the Developer's website: Touchpad enables you to use your iPhone (or iPod Touch) as a wireless touchpad. You can control the mouse on your PC using just your iPhone. You can move the mouse around, click, double-click, and even drag (double click but keep it pressed and then move around). Vertical scrolling is even possible, by click-and-dragging on the right edge of the iPhone screen.



Below are installation instructions, and a video of Touchpad in use.


To get using this app, you should follow these instructions, also from the developer's website.

1. You need a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch with Installer.app on it.
2. Start Installer.app, and go to Sources. Click "Edit", and then Add this repository: http://cnp.qlnk.net/
3. After the refresh, install Touchpad from the Utilities category.
4. Install VNC on the machine you want to control. I recommend TightVNC for Windows and Linux. Mac users should follow these detailed instructions.





And there you go, now, assuming you followed the instructions properly, you can control your PC or Mac with your iPhone! Genius!