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TouchPad Pro: Control Windows/Mac via VNC using Multi-Touch Finger Gestures on iPhone/iPod Touch

2008-03-09 15:07:52 by Abdul Aziz in Tech[dot]Blog

Touchpad Pro is a freeware application featuring multi-touch sensing capabilities for jailbroken Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices that lets you control your Windows PC or Mac OSX computer through VNC. The software you acts as a mouse and keyboard allowing you to control your PC’s screen and programs by moving your fingers and performing related gestures on the iPhone/iPod’s touch screen.

Here are some of the basic controls of TouchPad Pro:

TouchPad Pro: Control Windows/Mac through VNC with Multi-Touch Sense Finger Gestures using Apple iPhone/iPod Touch

- Right-click with a quick two fingered tap
- Scroll with two fingered vertical swipes
- Present PowerPoint with two fingered horizontal swipes
- Zoom by pinching with two fingers
- Type by clicking on the keyboard icon

You can also combine Shift, Ctrl and Alt keys with finger gestures and/or the on-screen keyboard. For example:

+ To navigate your browser history, you can enable Alt, and then use horizontal swipes
+ To press Ctrl-C, enable Ctrl, and then press C on the on-screen keyboard
+ To press Alt-F4, enable Fn and Alt, and then press 4 on the on-screen keyboard
+ To launch Windows Task Manager, enable Ctrl and Shift, and then press Esc on the Remote Control
+ To use accessibility zoom in Mac Mode, enable Ctrl and zoom with two fingers

Click here to read how to download TouchPad Pro on your iPhone/iPod and setup VNC on your Windows or Mac OSX based computer to ensure proper connectivity.