If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone (which, btw, is now possible with firmware 2.2) you can easily control it from your Mac (or PC). Check it out:
What does this mean? How do you do it?
Being able to control your iPhone using VNC means:
– Full keyboard support on your iPhone – type fast, save drafts, save notes, copy-paste from computer to iPhone
– Access iPhone from any computer in any room on your local network
– Be as lazy as possible; avoid reaching or moving to check text messages
– Remote control iPhone’s iPod when connected to your home stereo
– I suppose you could port forward and access your phone from anywhere, but then, why wouldn’t you be with your phone?
Installation is a breeze; open Cydia, search for and install Veency (thanks to author Jay “Saurik” Freeman), restart springboard.
Go into Settings, Wifi, click the blue arrow next to your network (
), note your IP address.
To connect to your iPhone you’ll need a VNC client like Chicken of the VNC (free) — Mac’s Screen Sharing app doesn’t work for some reason.
In CVNC, setup a Connection Profile for your iPhone – make sure to map the middle and right click, also set Color to “thousands.”
Connect to your iPhone’s IP address using the Connection Profile you just created (go to File: Open, instead of File: New to use a Connection Profile).
Once connected, you click and drag just like using your finger (which is represented by a small cursor). Left click for clicking, middle click to lock screen (you can even drag-to-unlock), right click for home button.
You can set middle button in Chicken of the VNC, I use a double click of the command key. You can even “flick” the screen up and down if you time your click-drag-unclick properly and double click the home button on the lock screen for your iPod control (or whatever you have double-click set to in Settings).
