One of the good things about the "very sweet solution" of iPhone development is that you don't need any special tools or too much knowhow to create neat applications-- if you know a little HTML, a little PHP, and have access to a text editor, you can come up with some pretty cool stuff. This tutorial from IBM's DeveloperWorks is about as simple as it gets, and yet it shows you how you can use your iPhone as a remote for iTunes, Keynote, or any other AppleScript-able applications on your Mac, with no jailbreakin' necessary.Of course, as he mentions at the end, Telekinesis did most of this stuff early on, so if you've got something standard that you want to do (like control iTunes), you don't need to write the code yourself any more. But combine the tutorial with any other custom AppleScripts you've written (or might write), and a lot of possibilities open up in terms of what you can do with your computer, straight from your iPhone.
[ via MacBytes ]
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8-23-2007 @ 4:28PM
peter said...
So what does a German WWII Enigma coding machine have to do with the post? Enigma's are very cool machines though. (its an early model based on the 3 rotor design - those three wheels behind the keyboard).
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8-23-2007 @ 4:31PM
taylor said...
An iPhone, a hosted Mac mini and telekinesis has made my quite happy. =)
http://www.macminicolo.net/iphoneremote.html
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8-23-2007 @ 7:24PM
Neil said...
Not to brag or anything, but you may want to check out the iTunes Remote on steroids for Telekinesis: Uniremote. http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis-tapps/wiki/Uniremote
Enjoy.
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8-24-2007 @ 4:14AM
Elliot said...
Nice idea, but I guess I'd have to write _a lot_ of AppleScript code to get a project of my own to the level where Remote Buddy already is. Beats Telekinesis by far! (btw,isn't it called iPhone Remote by now?!)
http://www.iospirit.com/index.php?mode=view&obj_type=infogroup&obj_id=24&o_infogroup_objcode=infogroup-23&o1_infogroup_objcode=html-141&sid=4102018Gce7b7a5621bd486b
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8-24-2007 @ 9:37AM
tu@wAddict said...
If you just want to control iTunes, you might want to give Vespasian a go. It'll control iTunes from the iPhone or any PDA and has a desktop interface as well if you wanted to control iTunes from the browser of a full-size computer.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vespasian/
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9-25-2007 @ 11:10AM
mari valenciano said...
good
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