We admit that Jaadu VNC isn’t cheap and is more than a little geeky, but it’s so cool and potentially useful that we would have been remiss had we not included it.
Jaadu VNC (Virtual Network Computing, also known as remote screen control) is an iPhone app for controlling your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer, “from a few feet away or from hallway around the world”.
Yes, you can actually see your computer screen and control its keyboard and mouse from anywhere in the world (as long as your iPhone can connect to the Internet through Wi-Fi 3G, Edge, or whatever).
When iPhone running Jaadu VNC, which Is controlling a Mac in another room (though it could just as easily be in a different city, state, or country).
Jaadu VNC is an iPhone app, so you pinch and unpinch to zoom in and out. In Figure, we zoomed in on the upper-left corner of the Mac screen, where this very chapter is being edited In Microsoft Word.
There’s little you can do on your Mac, PC, or Linux computer that you can’t control remotely with Jaadu VNC — though of course you’re dealing with a smaller screen on the iPhone. We use Jaadu VNC to check mail accounts other than the ones on our IPhones, to grab files from our hard drive and e-mail them to ourselves (at our iPhone e-mail addresses) or others, and to make sure backups are running when scheduled.
Another coot use for the application is as a “spy cam.” This feature requires
a computer with a built-in camera, such as a MacBook or MacBook Pro. Just
Open an app that uses the camera (for example, Photo Booth on the Mac or
a Webcam program under Windows), and you’ll be able to watch what’s happening In your office remotely on your iPhone.
Several free or less expensive VNC apps are available in the iTunes Store, but Jaadu VNC is the only one we’ve found that is robust and reliable enough to recommend.
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