I was looking for a "Salling Clicker"-like program to use with my PowerBook and PocketPC, since I was using my T610 to control my Keynote presentations. But after e-mailing the author and getting a not too optimistic response, I looked for a way to do this myself. Enter a prolonged experience trying to get Remote Desktop to work for XP and I started thinking, "Could I use this in some way with my Keynote and PowerBook so I don't have to tie up my phone?" Bottom line it works great and it was free to do!
I am not sure if others have done this yet, but here is my experience...
Hardware:
Pocket PC 1945
Software:
Missing Sync 1.2
OSXVNC
vncview.Zippy (renamed to .zip and then copied and run on Pocket PC)
What I did:
- I installed OSXVNC and set it to start when computer is running.
- Renamed, unzipped vncview.zippy to pocket PC and ran program at first nothing happened so...
- Reinstalled Missing Sync since there was no bluetooth connnection, once I restarted everything I initialized a bluetooth sync and mounted the pocketpc. Launch the viewer on the device and it asked for my password. Enter. Next thing I know I am looking at a portion of my 12" powerbook desktop.
- Launched Keynote remotely through the finder. hit Play and boom! My Thumbpad allowed me to advance through the powerpoint just like the clicker! Now I can see and access all my programs on my Mac (albeit in sections)
Sorry Jonas! I would have paid bucks for this! I apologize if this does not work for anyone else, I was unaware what a breakthrough I was going to have so I was not into documenting all my steps, but I am not a real techie or Linux guy and I had it working in about 1/2 hour of seriously trying (unlike Remote Desktop for XP).