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iPod Touch Tricks: VNC

With VNsea on my iPod Touch I can share the screen of my MacBook running Leopard (which is a built-in VNC server):

VNC from iPod Touch to MacBook
  • Needed to turn on “Screen Sharing” on my Mac (System Preferences \| Sharing).
  • Also needed to open the firewall for Screen Sharing (System Preferences \| Security \| Firewall).
  • Only worked with “pixel depth” in VNsea set to 16.
  • Wouldn’t work with my Cinema Display set to 1920x1200 — had to set it to 1600x1200.
  • Wouldn’t work without a password set on both ends.
  • Not zippy.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 11:08am
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Dale's picture
Dale on November 7, 2007
Thanks Peter! Your 1600x1200 resolution was the piece of the puzzle I was missing to get this to work on my iPhone! I was getting some sort of weird screen refresh problem until you pointed me in the right direction…works perfectly now albeit a tad slowly.
Kevin's picture
Kevin on April 13, 2008
you need a jailbroken ipod/iphone for this don’t you? a bit too good to be true if it were legal…
Taylor's picture
Taylor on December 15, 2008
Umm. Jailbreaking isn’t illegal. And this is awesome
Rich's picture
Rich on April 15, 2009
In apples eyes, jailbreaking is illegal, but fortunately the law thinks otherwise :)

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