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Telekinesis: Free iPhone Remote

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There is an open-source program available that will allow you to run your Mac from your iPhone! This is not a “hack”. It’s a legitimate piece of software, that you can obtain for free. Control and use your Mac with ease, right from your iPhone!

Telekinesis is an open-source application from Google, that will allow you to do just this. Install the software on your Mac, connect to it with your iPhone, and perform some or all of these functions:

  • Stream music and videos from your computer
  • Screen capture with mouse click and basic typing support
  • Simple iTunes Remote control
  • Browse your files
  • Run applescript remotely
  • iSight image capture
  • Basic Spotlight search
  • Easily create and add more applications

This is so simple and helpful. If I’m on the road, or traveling in another state even, I can easily access my Mac if there’s a file I need. If I forget to update my music, no problem! I can just log into my Mac and listen to it from there. Oh wait! I could also open documents on the Mac, edit them, and then save them into a Google Document. This will definitely make my life… and yours… MUCH easier.

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68 Comments

Wonderful program. Very useful. As usual great video.

yea.. chris.. yea.. Ill E you later

THE PICTURE OVER THE APPLE LOGO ROCKS!

haha im really jealous right now, u have a macbook and an iphone.

thats really amazing software.

Awesome, who’s ready for the giveaway.

This looks like a fantastic application! From what i see here, i will have to try this on my iphone when i get one in the near future! I think that this will help to control the assortment of computers in my house! This application will have to make my life easier!!!

It’s a pretty cool little application. It’d be cool to see something like that for windows

Interesting tool great for some one whome may just need to quickly get on to read a document they have saved on there mac, without having to actualy go to the mac to just do that simple task.

I can see alot of advantages.

This is a very good idea specially for those who do not want or know how to hack their iphone. Also a question i have is if the app you are trying to launch is larger than like a paint or something small like that is the remote(iphone)responsive?

Awsome, but one question, can you USE the apps FROM the i phone? Because, THAT would be cool. Thanks for discovering this for me, DEvin

I saw in the video when you were like streaming (hitting the refresh video is that all you can do is that as close as you can get to streaming because in the blog said you can stream, just wondering, I wish there was a program like this for windows. There may be a way that you can use logmein on a palm trio or something that has internet connection, not sure I should try it on my PSP.

i guess its cool, name doesnt really go with it “Telekinesis” they shoudl just call it magic remote(not very creative) or sumthing better

I don’t have an IPhone, but I might get one now. This is a really cool way to remote control an application from your phone

There arn’t many things cooler than making your computer look like it is haunted.

nice thing to have on hand if you are in another room to change music on itunes if you have it playing through the house or launch a program will still getting to your mac

i like to do that wan i get an iphone

if only for win ; oh well*

i will get an iphone in 2 weeks but i didnt know of this… i think i will take a look at it

Insanemitch (Mitch)

December 31st, 2007
at 8:49pm

Actually this is pretty cool, although I don’t own a mac it’s nice to know they have this feature. I’m getting an iPhone soon. but does it work for ipod touch?

I phone needs to find its way in my tech collection.

I have did the same thing but on my HP and iPhone, watch my latest video Chris.

this is such a great way to control an application on your phone!!! Thanks chris!

anyone with a iphone, does your phone jam up sometimes? and you have to use the restore option on itunes? i have had this happen 3 times in 2 months

This is a great app for my mac. My wife is a little freaked out with me taking pictures of her while I am upstairs. She doesn’t like me switching her songs in iTunes either.

THanks for this…..

Sweet, Chris! Unfortunately I don’t have a Mac, but I have an iPod Touch if that would work (instead of the iphone) does it lag? And is it possible to get a Windows VNC like app ?

Hmmm… I think what this all boils down to is that mobile computing is going to start getting as mainstream as desktop computing. With anything at a tap of a button on a device on your palm, I think we can all see how this might play out.

Chris this works for those of us who can afford the $70 service fees. It works awesome on the iPod Touch as well.

This looks like a great web app for the iphone, does anyone know of a windows version comming out? I don’t own a mac, myself - but this looks great!

This is so cool. It also works on the Ipod Touch. I ordered mine today and should get it friday.

Wow, that’s great. What doors could this open for other devices?

I watched you demo this last night and I just had to try it out. It works great and for free, it’s even better. Thanks for the heads up on this one Chris.

Ahh yes I’ve seen this. I do believe you need jail break but I’m not sure. I do also recall you saying jailbreak=bad… XD thanks for the info chris!

This looks great, does anybody know if it works for windows? or just a mac D:

This is amazing. So, you download the program to the computer? And do they also have this program for mac, or do the y also have it for XP? And does this work with other phones?Thanks.

That looks like fun… one of the many reasons I wish I had an iPhone :(

i think this ts cool, but hasn’t a similar thing been used by myth tv ??

Thanks for letting me know about this awesome product. I can’t wait for the day that I can afford an IPhone because I’ll be sure to do this and show it off to friends the technology behind it. Keep up the awesome work.

works great.. great alternative for the itunes remote

Yeah I bought this. I was very impressed with it’s abilities.

Hey this looks like fun, I want a Iphone now.

Chris Loved this video. Watched it about 7 times until I fianlt got the program! I have it installed a fully running. Even when I am typing this message. :)

I want one so bad

madhobbit, have you tried just resetting it when that happens? (Hold the Home+Sleep buttons)

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ive done it with my pc its great because you can acsess your pc anywhere (as long as its switched on)as its done over the web its great

Whats the video where he is crying like a little wuss?

why would you need that?

I have something like that on my hacked psp, i could connect to a computer through vnc with my psp :D

looks like a kool app i agree with adam wish there was this for windows

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Hey I haven’t seen the video yet, though in your description you say that this app comes from Google. In fact it does not. It is only hosted on Google Code. The real creators are these two gents, OSS soldiers jnj and gmurphy, as well as other contributors.

Anthony Alvernaz

January 1st, 2008
at 8:15pm

Thanks :) I had already heard of this, but was also apprehensive about needing to mod my iphone. Thanks

an error has occurred,

I’ve been getting this message on every Chris vid for weeks now,

it’s really annoying!

Whats with you and not hacking, jesus it’s not a sin!

does this work with my itouch i do have a mac book pro

This is just great! It’s programs like this teamed up with other such as Syenergy and TightVNC that can make a person with many Mac computers connected no matter where in the world they are. Personaly I believe if you are a Mac person you must own a Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, and an iPhone, maybe an iPod aswell lol. Now lets imagine you are a Graphics Designer or something somewhat similar. You use your Mac Mini as your server, keep it on 24/7 so you can log on, from anywhere in the world, from any computer, at any time. Also you have TightVNC or anyother VNC client installed so you can see whats going on from any computer. You use your Mac Pro as your main production machine and the MacBook or Macbook Pro as your portable machine. Have Syenergy installed on both and you’ll be able to controll the MacBook or MacBook Pro via the Mac Pro and visa versa. With your iPhone, have Telekinesis setup and have it linked to whatever machine you usually need to access from remote, probably your production machine in this case, the Mac Pro.

Thats about it, Macs are the the way to go! Even though I don’t own one at the moment give it a few years. Now only if you could do all of this with a PC…

I was almost looking forward to hacking my iPhone–but all the software so far available via hacking, to me, is kind of stupid and doesn’t justify voiding the warranty.

This isn’t even a hack—and this is actually (semi) useful.

Thanks for this one…

if its a website, do you really need an iPhone?

Apple is really starting to kick off.First the docmac which allows you to access your mac from anywhere and then this.This is what future holds for us users.Getting to have access to your mac from your phone is simple put EPIC!!!Nice video.Keep it coming man

ps:Oh have you heard about a program recently released that allows you to wirelessly sync your ipod touch to your iphone?That sounds pretty sweet as well [as long as it doesn't require any kind of hacking my iphone ^_^ ]

shove a croyn up my bum

hello, i commented before, and i have some new information. this will void your iphone waranty. i talked to a person at the apple store and they said all 3rd party applications void the software and hardware waranty. this is a really cool product, but i think you should wait until apple releases gen 2 iphone.

i wanted a ipod touch for this stuff but i heard flash will be in the 2008 version witch will make pcanywhere remote desktop should work well on the itouch cuz they have a flash version for the web but gg for finding this program

yes, it works on iPod touches too. Its a webpage that only works on iPhone and iPod Touches.

Look at my video, on how to get any free apple product. as soon as i have enoguh refferals for an iPhone i will sell my iTouch to the person who refferd me a lot for 1pence

my iphone…. when trying to access the webpage with my ip address stops and says that the server stopped responding every time i try to open it

Why would you want to control your computer… from your computer anyways :S

this is *** it doesnt even work with windows mac sucks

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