VNC sounds geeky enough to scare you away ? It stands for Virtual Network Computing and the idea is to give you full view, and control, of any computer running VNC without physically being in front of it, in short you can access it from anywhere you have internet access: from a different room in your house, at work, on the train, you get the idea. Remote Desktop is a VNC app for Windows Phone 7, put two and two together and so you can remote control your PC from your Windows Phone 7.. sounds interesting ? check out the press release for the app
WP7 App Description
Remote Desktop for Windows Phone 7 lets you access, view and control your computers using your phone from anywhere in the world. You have full control of your computer’s mouse and keyboard. Use your touch screen to move mouse, zoom in/out of remote screen, or use keyboard. Visit our website http://www.thefastmarket.com for more detailed information. E-mail us at support@thefastmarket.com for any help, comments, suggestions or support questions. We offer free remote assistance to help you setup your computer for access, please contact us if you need help. We do not have the ability to contact reviewers posting problems, so please e-mail us so that we can help you.
This application requires you to install WP7 RemoteDesktop server and VNC server on your computer so that you can access it remotely. You can download these from our website. This application does not support RDP at the moment but support for RDP will be coming in an update soon.
If you are updating from older version, you may need to uninstall existing version and then install this again.
New in version 1.2:
+ Locale fix for non-US languages
New in version 1.1:
+ Uses less bandwidth
+ Use custom ports to connect to multiple computers behind a router
+ Quick scroll buttons to scroll up/down in any window
+ Send ctrl+alt+del (requires compatible VNC server)
+ Multiple monitor support (requires compatible VNC server)
+ Bug fixes & small UI tweaks
Doofa allows you to remote control media software on your PC like iTunes, Spotify, PowerDVD 10, VLC, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player and Zune from your Windows Phone 7. You will need to run a PC server app on your PC in order for the WP7 app to connect to the PC and offer the remote control features.
WP7 App Description
Doofa is a remote control app for your PC media applications that runs on Windows Phone 7 Doofa provides play, pause, skip forward, skip back, stop and volume control, including mute, controls Doofa works with iTunes, Spotify, PowerDVD 10, VLC, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player and Zune. Doofa also provides navigation controls when controlling iTunes, Spotify, PowerDVD and VLC. Download the PC side application from www.doofa-app.com
With all the talks about WP7 remote control apps, if you were wondering why nothing for Windows Mobile you are in luck coz there is a new app called Remote Control App for windows mobile with which you can control your PC with the mobile device. You will have to install a server software on your windows PC and a client program for windows mobile. The app can connect over WLAN or ActiveSync. It should work on WM6 onwards on WVGA devices with .NetCF 3.5
Features for Remote Control App include :
* Fingerfriendly
* Remote control over WLAN
* Media player control (Winamp, Windows Media Player, VLC, SMPlayer)
* Mouse & Keyboard control
* PowerPoint control
* Windows Media Center control
* Multilingual (German, English)
Cobaltikus from xda-developers has been hard at work on a Sixaxis/Dual Shock 3 Controller for Windows Phone, he also has plans for adding wiimote support. Use your Sony Playstation 3 Controller (Sixaxis/Dual Shock 3) as a Bluetooth HID device on your Windows Phone. It’s great for games, mainly emulators. The developer recommend trying this with SmartGear Emulator.
Version 0.1 is now out . It’s stable and runs fine, but just limited in functionality relative to it’s capabilities. Nothing is configurable at the moment and there is no user interface.
Prerequisites – what you need before hand:
A windows mobile phone with a widcomm bluetooth stack. I fully intend to include support for the M$ stack but I’m not done yet. Verified runs on HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC HD2, verified does not run on HTC Touch Pro(1) due to it’s lack of a Widcomm stack.
A way to set the controller’s master address to your phone’s bluetooth mac address. I would absolutely love it if someone could provide a better way to do this, but for now I will share the method I used. See below in Attachments 2 for instructions.
Because there seems to be no simple, functional and easy to use remote control for windows media center on windows mobile devices out there, oishiiunko from xda-developers decided to build one. The software uses VMC Controller to connect to Windows Media Center, enabling basic control of the following functions, as well as displaying media info (see screenshots below):
-menu navigation
-play/pause, next/previous, skip/rewind
-volume control
-playback position seeking
-tv channel up/down
-entering text for searching through media lists
As its still in the beta stage, there will be bugs, so i need testers to trial it on their handsets, providing feedback and suggestions. This latest release adds automatic listing of PCs which are running Windows Media Center with VMC Controller installed, as well as better QVGA support.
Because there seems to be no simple, functional and easy to use remote control for windows media center on windows mobile devices out there, oishiiunko from xda-developers created his own.
DESCRIPTION:
This software connects to Windows Media Center on your PC via VMC Controller software.
Allows for full control of basic functions:
-menu navigation
-play/pause, next/previous
-volume control
-playback position seek
Displays currently playing media info on screen.
CHANGELOG: 0.4 Beta – 31/03/10
-fixed problem where addresses were resolved to ipv6
-only works with ipv4 addresses, hostname not working correctly yet
-minor performance fixes
Boxee is a cross-platform freeware Home theater PC (HTPC) program with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV.
This is a simple remote for Windows Mobile devices that allows you to operate basic program functions using a wireless connection (WiFi or cellular).
Features:
Navigation mode: up, down, left, right, select, back, home and exit
Automatic discovery of the machine running Boxee (manual configuration is also possible)
FREE!
How to use it:
First step is to inform in program settings the address (IP or host name) of the machine where Boxee is running on. Alternatively use the “Discover” command and the remote will try to locate it (see note below).
Press “Mode” to alternate between the three available ways to control Boxee: Navigation, Play or Input.
Click thumbnail to obtain more information about the media currently playing.
Known issues/limitations:
Discovery function is still unstable. If it does not work, click on “Discover” again to cancel the operation and then enter the server address manually in program settings. If commands still do not work, check if Boxee’s webserver is active (program settings).
Background for the application: You can read the original thread mentioned above to get an idea why people wanted an application like the one I am releasing. In a few words: since you can access the Dreambox (or any other satellite-receiver based on Enigma or Enigma2) through your local network or through Internet, there are many things you can do remotely (at work for instance) such as handling timer-events, read EPG etc. The ideal way of doing it, especially if you don’t have access to a PC, is to use a handheld device. It was brought to our attention, that there are plenty of applications to do what mentioned above already available for download on the Appstore for iPhone.
The Dreambox is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial and cable digital television receivers (set-top box), produced by German multimedia vendor Dream Multimedia. It’s “kind of” of open-source which has led many “teams” to develop so called “images” for this receiver as an alternative to the original one furnished by Dream Multimedia. In addition, many other hardware manufactures have produced their own receivers (some of them are actually clones while others are not) using the same concept of the Dreambox i.e. Linux-powered. The Dreambox has evolved during the years and many models are present on the market. The first ones are/were using a firmware called “Enigma” but, more or less, with the introduction of High Definition TV, a new firmware was released, namely “Enigma2″. One of the “revolutionary” features of the Dreambox was that you can connect it to your local network and this opened up a whole new word compared to ordinary satellite-receivers. To get further information, just google for Dreambox or look it up at Wikipedia.
Sweet: I already have the beta of this app . METROFIED [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
AppTastic: Yanko – thanks for the concept! We’re looking forward to getting a lot more feedback from the users here. We’re committed to making AppTastic the best marketplace...
Tony: Looks so good. Please make a paid app – no ads.
Twimagic: http://www.Ringer.org is the best ringtone maker I’ve ever seen! Completely free, online, no registration!
Andrew Chobaniuk: Thanks for the heads up! [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Emiel Zuurbier: I would like to see the posibility of making a trip that uses different kinds of transportation as from train to bus, bus to subway, subway to train. With a map and directions,...
MrVamosMuchachos: Nice idea. You could take some ideas from the application “SBB”. It is the public transport app from switzerland. [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
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