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):

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 - 12:08pm

iPod Touch

Comments

Submitted by Dale (not verified) on Wed, 2007-11-07 14:56.

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.

Submitted by Kevin (not verified) on Sun, 2008-04-13 02:02.

you need a jailbroken ipod/iphone for this don’t you? a bit too good to be true if it were legal…

Submitted by Taylor (not verified) on Mon, 2008-12-15 18:00.

Umm. Jailbreaking isn’t illegal. And this is awesome

Submitted by Rich (not verified) on Wed, 2009-04-15 09:51.

In apples eyes, jailbreaking is illegal, but fortunately the law thinks otherwise :)