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Telekinesis puts your Mac desktop onto your iPhone
Talk about cool. Alan Quatermain read about Telekinesis over at Daring Fireball and tipped me about it. It's a new OS X program from the creator of QuickSilver that serves your computer up as webpages. Load the iPhone remote software onto your Mac and you can use your iPhone to access your camera, your files, and even see your screen. It's new and just a wee bit buggy ("Really. Alpha. Don't expect it to be pretty. Or work.") but it already shows great promise. The screen shot here is off my Mac, but the same functions are available directly on the iPhone.
Unfortunately, my Macs are so firewalled up that I can only use it in my house, but it worked well during my limited tests using my in-home network. This is probably a good time to re-check out a service like No-IP.
Thanks to Alan Quatermain.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Guy said 5:36PM on 7-05-2007
this is awesome. im already making a new skin for it.
some stuff doesnt seem to work quite yet, granted its alpha, but still awesome none-the-less.
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nate said 5:41PM on 7-05-2007
http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/
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Josh H. said 5:54PM on 7-05-2007
how do you sign in from your iphone?
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Brian said 5:57PM on 7-05-2007
This is great! I set it to run on my mac mini server at macminicolo.net and now I can control it from my iPhone!
It's obviously just getting started, but what a great start!
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Joshua Ochs said 6:17PM on 7-05-2007
Uh-oh. One of the big things keeping me from an iPhone was the ability to SSH and VNC into my Mac remotely. If I could do that via an app like this I may be sold. And in deep financial trouble. :-)
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papasteves02 said 6:17PM on 7-05-2007
this thing is sick
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Tony Bowman said 6:35PM on 7-05-2007
this is the kind of app that i wanted the most! even as an early alpha, this works great! i browsed and opened files on my MacBook Pro through Telekinesis easily.
the only thing i need now is a SketchPad-like program.
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Simon Arch said 6:47PM on 7-05-2007
"this thing is sick"
In what way? Seems like it'd be very useful, hardly disgusting at all.
Oh WAIT, you're one of those kids who thinks "sick" means "cool", right? Yeah, that's dope. Er...fly. Er...hip. Cat's pajamas? Bees knees? Yeah, you get the point, right?
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Jersey said 7:00PM on 7-05-2007
Now ... if we can find a way to download and store the files on our phones.
And yes, this is a fresh app. I was hoping to see something like this soon ... mostly because I didnt want to have to figure it out on my own.
Anyone have any idea how to run it on 2 machines? Maybe the second on port 5011?
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Bob said 7:21PM on 7-05-2007
Simon,
"This thing is sick" is a compliment, not an insult.
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papasteves02 said 7:23PM on 7-05-2007
someone's drinking the haterade.
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Philip said 7:34PM on 7-05-2007
This App is great. I live in Germany so I don't have an iPhone but its just great to have something like this...
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ocellnuri said 7:37PM on 7-05-2007
I'm anxious to see how well it works on other mobiles, such as WM5 or Palm. If its developed to the level of Quicksilver, I'm personally going to have another must-have app.
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Jim McMurry said 7:43PM on 7-05-2007
Now add SSH to the list of things you can do with your iPhone
http://www.jamesmcmurry.com/archives/000381.html
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Ian Potter said 7:56PM on 7-05-2007
I feel obligated to tell people that they should check if their broadband provider has any proscriptions against using consumer internet for a server. Just do a search for "server" or "FTP" and you should be able to find it.
I was about to use DynDNS to use my MBP as a webserver, but it turns out that Comcast frowns on that.
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ersy said 8:18PM on 7-05-2007
I'll echo the above comment about your ISP and webserver / ftp , as Optimum Online / Cable vision frowns upon it as well.
Usually they cap your connection up, allowing about 12kbps per second. I know because it happened to me. I was ftp-ing things from home to work. I noticed thing were moving very slowly, and I called to complain. They made a visit to see if they could figure out why it was so slow, and I saw on the techs laptop "Customer is running server" in big red letters.
I called them on it, and they finally admitted it was due to ftp traffic, and they refused to remove the cap for 18 months.
FYI
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Court Kizer said 10:05PM on 7-05-2007
Why isn't this working? I downloaded it, tried it on two computers, and the URL it loads doesn't load anything, it can't get to the page. Tried it on two different macs in the house, tried changing it to LOCALHOST instead of the machines local IP but still nothing.
The only thing I have is an airport etreme base station
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Cabbage said 10:22PM on 7-05-2007
Screw NoIP. Use HamachiX, a secure mediated VPN client. This allows to create virtual private networks between many clients through firewalls.
http://hamachix.spaceants.net/download.html
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Chris said 10:48PM on 7-05-2007
Is this somehow different from what soonr makes possible? I've been using Soonr for a month now to access my laptop from my N95 and it's worked perfectly. Okay, almost perfectly. There's an occasional glitch, but I'm never sure if the problem is Soonr or my N95 browser (which shares Safari's DNA).
However, I think Soonr may charge $ some day--so if this is a free alternative, I'm all for it.
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Chris said 10:49PM on 7-05-2007
Messed up the link in my earlier post -- it's
http://soonr.com
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