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Mobile Mouse Pro (Remote / Trackpad)Current Version: 2.1.3 (iOS 4.0 Tested)

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Air Mouse Pro is now Mobile Mouse Pro. Same great app with a new name. Mobile Mouse instantly transforms your iPhone or iPod touch into an in air, wireless remote for your computer! Sit back and use this remote to surf the web, browse your photo library or control your music player from the comfort of your couch. Mobile Mouse uses the built in accelerometer to translate your hand motions into mouse movements on your screen. It can also operate as a trackpad remote, allowing you to control your computer with a single finger. Mobile Mouse is an essential part of any home theater PC and a presenter's best friend. Mobile Mouse uses an innovative application notification system to let the iPhone know what program you are running at any time and show the appropriate keys for that program. This allows Mobile Mouse to provide a single screen remote for controlling ALL your media and web applications. Mobile Mouse is the only app to feature a full fledged dock, just like you'd find on your Mac! Mobile Mouse supports all the most popular web and media programs for the Mac and PC. New remote definitions are automatically downloaded daily to your computer, so you will always have the newest remotes as we create them.

Features:
- Accelerometer based mouse controller
- Trackpad(full screen vertical and landscape modes)
- Application switcher (works just like the dock in OS X)
- Ability to hide keyboard (shake to hide/show)
- Landscape keyboard (shake in landscape mode to show)
- Media Remote (w/vol up/down and eject buttons)
- Web Remote
- Numeric keyboard
- Application notifications
- Remote keyboard with function and arrow keys
- Programmable hotkeys (can be set to run a program or keyboard combination)
- Scroll pad
- Left and Right mouse buttons
- Multitouch gestures (scroll & right click)
- Modifier Keys
- On screen typing
- Sleep/Wake your computer
- Password protection
- Custom sensitivity settings
- Foreign language keyboards
- Supports Bonjour or static IP
- No screen size limitation. Works with multiple monitors.
- High resolution graphics for retina display on iPhone 4.
- And much, much more.

View our demo video and website to see all that Mobile Mouse can do for you.

Requirements:
- Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard (Intel/PPC)
- Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 (32/64bit)
- WIFI router (works best on a local area network or Ad hoc network)
- Mobile Mouse Server Software

** BEFORE YOU RUN THE SOFTWARE ** you will need to download the server application from :

http://www.mobilemouse.com

** IMPORTANT ** IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL, PLEASE CHECK THE TROUBLESHOOTING SECTION ON OUR SITE, THEN USE THE CONTACT FORM ON OUR SITE IF YOU ARE STILL HAVING PROBLEMS. We can not respond to reviews, so posting your questions there will not get you an answer. None of the reviewers saying that our app doesn't work ever contacted us for help. If you are unable to get the app to connect, contact us and WE WILL GET IT WORKING FOR YOU.

Visit our site for demos and setup instructions.

Provides remote control capabilities for programs like iTunes, VLC, Front Row, Windows Media Center, WinAmp, Firefox, Safari, boxee
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Mobile Mouse Pro (Remote / Trackpad) Review

Unshackle yourself from your desk with this iPhone-based remote

by Kate Dohe, Macworld.com

Sometimes I feel shackled by my computer’s keyboard and mouse. When I give presentations, watch movies from the sofa in my office, or need to start a task away from my desk, I don’t always want to be within arm’s length of my mouse. So I appreciate the freedom offered by Mobile Air Mouse, a full-featured remote control from R.P.A. Tech.


In Control: The top half of the Air Mouse Pro Screen features a two-button trackpad, while the bottom half gives you a keyboard, along with controls for browsing the Web and playing movies and music.

Using the accelerometer and touchscreen of either an iPhone or iPod touch, Air Mouse works over a local Wi-Fi network to control you computer’s mouse and keyboard. Before using the app, you do need to install a small application on your computer—there’s a version for both Mac OS X and Windows users—which manages the connection and controls many of the mouse and keyboard settings.

The Air Mouse Pro screen features a two-button trackpad on the top half of the screen, while the bottom half switches between media control buttons and a keyboard. I found Air Mouse Pro to be as responsive and stable as my current wireless mouse, with touchscreen mousing no different using a computer trackpad.

Using the accelerometer to control mouse gestures is comparable to using a the controls for a Nintendo Wii—fun, though not always practical. You won’t write novels with the app’s keyboard, for example. But when combined with customizable keyboard shortcuts, Air Mouse Pro can be handy for conducting fast searches, launching applications, or, as Macworld editors have noted elsewhere, running a Mac-based media center. That said, the set of buttons for controlling iTunes and Web browsing, while useful, make the omission of presentation controls all the more glaring.

Still, Mobile Air Mouse is a genuinely fun and practical application for anyone who needs to break free of the desk.

Mobile Air Mouse is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.1 software update. The desktop application runs on Mac OS X 10.4 or later as well as Windows XP/Vista (32/64 bit).

[Kate Dohe is a graduate student in library and information science at the University of Hawai’i in Honolulu; she works with the Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies as a designer and site administrator.]

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User Reviews of Mobile Mouse Pro (Remote / Trackpad) iPhone App

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Our user reviews IN DETAIL:

Great

This app has everything it says but I think it should use the gyroscope on the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4th Gen. to use like one uses a non-trackpad mouse. That would be a great addition. Also multitouch like the Apple's Magic Trackpad or the macbook trackpads. (This app may alreadly have this feature but not availbale for windows.)

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Very Nice

This is a very nice remote mouse. The app itself is beautiful, but I really don't like the apps icon. It works great though.

Nice Product...

The connection to the server drops intermitantly (every 40 seconds or so) rendering the app useless.

The BEST Remote/Trackpad!

The best money I've spent for my iPhone, next to Twittelator Pro!

Slick Remote App

Air Mouse Pro is excellent app for controlling your Mac from across the room on your local Wi-Fi network. The App's server icon (which is placed on your mac's menu bar) provides fine tuning that allow easier control of the touch gestures. The "Air" feature was a little less than functional however.

Great for Entertainment Centers

I have been using this app for a couple months now and it really is a pleasure. To be honest, the "air" part of it is not as functional and hard to do, but the rest of the app works really well and is a pleasure to use. I mainly use it for the pc i have hooked up to my tv in the living room, it is nice not to have to pull out a keyboard and mouse every time i want to go to hulu or just play a video. And it works just as well with y MacBook Pro whenever i have to make a presentation. Overall i'd say it is the best app of its type.

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