RemotePad is a free, open source, application for your iPhone that provides a remote trackpad and keyboard to control your Mac, Windows or Linux or BSD PC. You can find the RemotePad application in the app store. You will also have to download and run a small program on the computers you want to control.
I was enthusiastic to find a free remote control application, but my enthusiasm waned once I tried it out. When I tried using it against a Windows XP machine I found that responsiveness was often very poor. In addition, the remote keyboard didn’t provide keys you’d find on any keyboard, like page-up and page-down, etc. I still applaud the developer for creating the application and releasing it as OpenSource. I hope people with more programming skills will help them improve it.
In upcoming posts, I’ll look at a few of the inexpensive commercial options.
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