Wednesday, 11/07/07

It's well-established that I am a neglectful blogger, and I haven't finished writing anything about the iPod Touch that I bought the first weekend it was available. I'm still pretty conflicted about the little bugger, though less so than the first couple of weeks. In a nutshell, there are things it does extremely well, but "being an iPod" is not one of them.

I break radio silence now to praise VNsea, the first fabulously useful third-party iPhone/Touch app I've seen. It's a full-on VNC client, capable of displaying remote computers' displays in full color. Versions previous to .5 were pretty much read-only, but .5 is a vast improvement, delivering resizability, rotation support, and a full keyboard, including a row of buttons substituting for modifier keys. The password is still stored and displayed in plain text, which limits its utility in even the least security-conscious situations, but it's a tremendously impressive piece of work. 10:59PM «

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