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Remote Commander
Latest release: Remote Commander 1.0
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The authors say:
The Remote Commander allows PDAs to be used as if they were the PC's cursor and keyboard. From the handheld, Remote Commander transmits to the PC the movements and taps of the stylus and characters entered into the PDA. From the PC, through a plugin in PebblesPC, Remote Commander inserts signals received from the PDA as mouse and keyboard events into the event stream. This allows the PDA to mimic everything that can be performed with a mouse or keyboard.
Some examples of uses for this include:
- To allow multiple people to take turns controlling the mouse and keyboard, for example in a meeting situation.
- To use the PDA stylus as a pen input device for the PC, for example in situations when freehand drawing or writing is desired. This might be useful for architects and other designers who find a mouse awkward for input.
- To serve as a front-end to PCs for people with muscular disabilities. We have added special features to RemoteCommander for Palm to make it more suitable for use in this way.
OATS Comment:
After some fun (i.e. difficulty) setting this up, I have had it working with my Palm wirelessly across bluetooth. In other words, I could use my stylus on my Palm to move the cursor on my computer! This could, potentially, be very useful to some people as a means of 'universal' access to PCs.
Pebbles is actually a collection of programs, all of which do a slightly different thing and all of which are potentially useful.
