Remotely Control Your iPhone with Veency
If you've taken the plunge and jailbroken your iPhone, you have access to more apps than the average iPhone owner. Popular apps such as Cydia and Installer provide access to numerous other apps that Apple refuses to provide to App Store customers. The only downside is that these apps are exclusively available for jailbroken iPhones, which can be a tedious and confusing process for some and also voids your warranty. Nevertheless, we have one more app recommendation that might be worth jailbreaking your iPhone to get. It's called Veency.
A VNC Server for Your iPhone
Developed by Jay Freeman, the creator of the Cydia and Cycorder apps, Veency is a free app that allows iPhone owners to remotely control their iPhone from the comfort of your PC or Mac desktop via a VNC client. Some of the neat things you can do with Veency are:
- Launch applications on your iPhone
- Reply to emails, text messages, and more
- Rearrange icons
- Lock/Unlock your iPhone
- Browse through Photos and Contacts
Unsurprisingly, you cannot do two finger gestures with this app. All other actions can be done with the click of your mouse. The only area in which Veency fails tragically at is when opening any video recording application on the iPhone. We could not view any videos or video recordings on-screen and opening any video application resulted in significantly lower performance from Veency.
Charge Your iPhone From Anywhere
Now iPhone users can charge their iPhone in one room and still answer messages or play with their apps without needing their iPhone to be around. Veency allows you to see any incoming calls, but you obviously shouldn't try to answer them from your computer. Be sure to restart your iPhone after installing Veency and connect to the server using a Wi-Fi connection. We recommend using UltraVNC or TightVNC to connect your Windows desktop. If you're using a Mac, we recommend Chicken VNC. For a great demo of Veency check out this video.
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Hey great post as usual, to bad you're giving away my iphone video review secret (VNC). Think I was first to post an iPhone video review of applications using VNC on http://iPhonesinrtp.com. Let the video reviews begin.
Catch you on twitter.
Wayne
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Posted by: Mike Fruchter
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October 19, 2008 11:40 AM
wow, veency seems to be very useful tool and first of it's kind.
Good read.
psst. The link to the older jailbreaking post is broken.
thanks Johan, link fixed
it would be cool if the two-fingered gestures worked with the new Macbook's multi-touch trackpad.
"The only downside is that these apps are exclusively available for jailbroken iPhones, which can be a tedious and confusing process for some and also voids your warranty."
I believe you're wrong on this point; it does not void your warranty.
Jailbreaking the phone does void the warranty. Its running unsigned code, or unapproved code. That is against both the EULA for running mOSx, and the warranty for the hardware. The most Apple will do for you is restore it after you jailbreak it.
Any chance for an App Store Release
I just got my IPhne 3G yesterday and LOVE IT. I am afraid to JailBreak it! I dont want to void the warranty it came with.
Jiff
www.privacy-center.be.tc
where can I download Veency? I don't see it on Apple store?
That's a really interesting spin on things. I've never seen a desktop controlling a mobile setup before.
Jailbreaking the phone does void the warranty. It is only running unsigned code! The process is not hard, or complicated. One download, one app, and a really simple process with QuickPWN which can be found at
http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2008/09/19/jailbreak-and-unlock-iphone-firmware-21.html
Stop the missinformation! Jailbreaking is safe and EASY!
thank u r information
it very useful
u r blog Is very nice
THIS PROGRAM IS GARBAGE HOW USELESS IF U THINK ABOUT, WANT SOMETHING GREAT, GET JAADU (TELEPORT) THIS PROGRAM WILL ALLOW UR IPHONE TO CONTROL YOUR WHOLE PC AND ACCESS ANYTHING REMOTELY FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. UR IPHONE JUST TURNED INTO A PC. NOT UR PC INTO AN IPHONE, HOW STUPID
I can't help but agree with HELPER, despite his belligerent caps usage--this app sounds like the dumbest most useless idea one could possibly conceive. Why o why would you ever find it more convenient to control your iPhone remotely when it's in your hand most of the time anyway? I mean, "lock/unlock your phone"? They list that as a feature? The horror! The horror!
Charging an iPhone From Anywhere is really cool..
This will be really helpful.
Gosh, now just all I need is an iphone, lol!
Momma
feature blogger at Engineer a Debt Free Life
http://engineeradebtfreelife.blogspot.com/
To those like Shaan with little imagination, some of use work!! To be able to have a connection to the iPhone to answer texts etc is very useful. PDA's have had it for a long time. So Shaan if you don't like it, don't use it, leave it to us who are grateful for the effort that has been made!
It's very useful to be able to just work on your computer and not have to go pick up your phone when you think of something you have in a note. I'm often at another computer, and think of something or read an article about something and want to then go to my phone. With this program, I can do all that. Admittedly, it's sort of lazy, but it's worth it if I'm able to keep doing whatever it was I was doing with as little interruption as possible.
If you don't see the point of a program, it's very possible that other people do. Why do people take the time to comment that they don't see the point of things? I, personally, don't see the point of that.
This does, seem to be a very useful app for supporting my customers who have Iphones. The only problem is I'll have to jailbreak each one of their phones. I need to learn more about jailbreaking and warranty info before using this software. If you could get it into the app store I would buy it for my company and all my techs. Great idea with this app though!!!
I have a computer in my Car and it would be very nice, to have control of my phone from it. I could then use the larger 8" touch screen in my dash. Much saver then trying to use my phones screen for things like calling people or listening to music. I would love to see an interface that basicly made the screen of your iphone, become the screen of the PC.