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hey guys John rende here from TechnoBuffalo here I don't do that many iPhone app reviews but the ones that I do I try and make sure they're really useful a very fun a better game and this is an application that I've been using for the better part but we could have found it to be really helpful it's called a remote tap and it lets you remotely access your Mac from anywhere over Wi-Fi or 3G this will definitely work with an iPod touch as well it's a $4.99 application that needs to buy it from Apple's App Store let's go ahead and watch it right here I'm going to cover some information that shows up go ahead and launch my desktop so right now it's going to pull up my desktop do you have got a Firefox window open it's a little bit shrunk and hard to read so if I rotate it I now have my full desktop and I use multiple monitors supports that so I can scroll over it I can see my other monitor will focus on one for right here and we'll look at this Firefox window so you can zoom in using the pinch and zoom function on it you're probably familiar with now what if you wanted to click on something that was very small it was hard to see like that little X if I hold my finger over it it actually pulls up a little zoom bar can see a better sense of what you want to do however I will tell you the tapping menus it's actually pretty easy so I go to Firefox I wanted to quit Firefox to be pretty easy to type just tap it and it actually increases the size as you select the menus to make it really finger friendly the application does a really nice job about making everything very finger friendly so the big question I had was how am I going to use an application like this especially a one that supports OS 10 that's very heavy on keyboard strokes whereas a built-in keyboard on the iPhone doesn't really have a command shift control well this application makes all that really useful let me show you go ahead and pull that up and launches your typical iPhone keyboard but now that's all of the keys that you might want to use with it so shift control option command all of them there right there at your fingertips so moving right along if you just want to hit the keys pulls up the ledge the rest of the for kind of most popular shortcut keys if we keep moving along this thing's pretty cool too it's sort of you can see these circles show up and this would want to control your music so let's say you're in the other room and your computer is controlling a party and you're not on Wi-Fi forever reason you can't use Apple's remote app this lets you control absolutely everything go ahead and pull it up you get your full remote control button so you can control wherever you want here if you're let's say you're on the other side of the world and someone at home is listening to music you can just jump in and correct with the listening to which is kind of fun so we'll keep moving along say what else we have here this shows you what's open makes a lot easier to manage your applications so it tells me what's running what's in my dock all my applications that I have and I can go ahead and pick one right here and I'm done I just go ahead hit done so if you want to open something up it could be a little bit hard to go into the dock and zoom in and find the application that you want whereas right here you can just well just select it it's got another button for for music also control spaces too if you've got space is used on your computer and lastly the controller music as well it's a very useful application I've been finding that when I when I'm away if I want to send a quick email I've gotten very quick and used to using it it works very very well your computer of course needs to be on and when you download the application from the App Store I'll promise you to go to a website and download a little bit of software that'll put itself in your system preferences on your Mac but it really just works incredibly well it's a fun application to use and it is pretty sweet to see your whole desktop right on your phone I should warn you though it can be a bit choppy over 3G but it's definitely useful one thing that you can't do is play video I tried to go to YouTube for example and play a video on here it becomes a very choppy but if you're going to want to use this sort of a sling box or mobile Hulu player it's not going to work that way unfortunately it's gonna be just for basic tests or things you want to send yourself or file if you want access to at least right now it's not the best for echoing streaming video just wants to give you a heads up that was the first thing that I wanted to see when I downloaded this application any guys hope you enjoyed this is a quick demonstration of remote tap for the iPhone or iPod Touch foes you that our PC users I'll be doing another video showing you a great application that does the same thing for peace I hope you guys enjoyed checking out a Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and for all of your technique needs of 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