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No, this is not in Apple’s playbook.  Yes, you can remote into your Windows PC via this free software and even better, with the iPhone’s fantastic zooming capabilities, it is totally usable.

Nate True came up with the idea of tweaking TightVNC, a free remote control software package and created Web VNC.  How does it work?

“WebVNC is a modification of the VNC server. Where before the HTTP server in VNC would just serve a Java applet, now it serves an AJAX application that downloads the screen as a set of JPEG images. The application then checks back with the server to see which ones have changed, and reloads them. Input is just another message to the server.”

One iPhone interface coding session and whammo.  Brilliant Nate, brilliant.

Why can’t we get this going for my WM5 phone?  Another reason to covet thy neighbors iPhone. And while at Cre.ations.net viewing more images and instructions, give Nate a shout out.  He could easily be charging for this.

Read [Cre.ations.net]

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