How to Use Your iPhone as a Touchpad (Mac)

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oneangrytoast - February 27, 2008 at 1:21am
im getting an error. not sure what happened because it was working at first....it keeps telling me: Connection failed No server with the name vnc. ive double and triple checked all the settings and have reinstalled the app a few times as well. any ideas iClarified?
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jaghdut - February 26, 2008 at 8:56pm
i have \"Tiger\" (OS X, before leopard), do i need to upgrade to leopard to run these application???
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Alan - February 24, 2008 at 9:26pm
same here \"connection failed, connection could not be made to host (address)\" please help
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chi - February 24, 2008 at 11:49am
i\'ve follow all the steps, but eventually it shows \"connection could not be madeto host 192.XXX.X.XXX port 5900\". But my case, the last digit of ip add shown on cmd & Wi-Fi network of iPhone is different!!
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19monty83 - February 23, 2008 at 4:55pm
Does it matter what FW your iphone is running.. i have 1.0.2 and for some reason I can\'t get it to connect to my macbook.fwb3b
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marginatus - February 22, 2008 at 6:15pm
thank you for the vine server tip. I found the answer to my question. To use this where there\'s no wifi network, i just created a network on my macbook and then conected to that. it\'ll be great for my classes
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toyanucci - February 22, 2008 at 5:42pm
I use leopard but find this method taxing on my CPU so I use Vine Server instead of the built in vnc server. Its free and works with tiger as well and is light on CPU. After configering it just start the system server in settings and it will load in the background on startup.
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marginatus - February 22, 2008 at 6:20am
also, is it possible to use this in a place with a wireless router os AP? As an exemple, using only the macbook and iphone with an ad-hoc wireless conection...
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marginatus - February 22, 2008 at 6:11am
I\'m a tiger user also... HOw can we use it?
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amleiv - February 21, 2008 at 8:16pm
are we supposed to see the computer\'s screen in the iphone, or just a black one???
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