Logitech Introduces a Touch Mouse App for Wireless PC or Mac Control
Logitech Introduces a Touch Mouse App for Wireless PC or Mac Control
Posted 02/02/2010 at 1:52pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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Attitudes about the iPod Touch and the iPhone can be distilled into two groups: (1) It’s a grossly overpriced unitasker; or (2) it’s a brilliant multitasker that’s well worth the price. And reactions to Logitech’s newly introduced Touch Mouse will perfectly illustrate this dichotomy.
Logitech’s free application for the iPhone and Touch allows users of PCs and Macs to control their computer from their device. It mimics a laptop touchpad, complete with mouse button input. Plus, its got a keyboard option. It’s a small keyboard, to be sure, but it does display the text you type on the iPhone or Touch. Logitech’s offering is a natural fit for those connecting their computer to their TV. You can sit back and relax, without having to drag along a keyboard and mouse, or buy an expensive, sole-purpose peripheral.
Logitech’s Touch Mouse joins other touchpad/mouse apps for the iPhone and Touch, such as Gabriel Höhener’s WeBe Bluetooth Mouse, R.P.A. Tech’s Air Mouse Pro, and JumiTech’s JumiMouse. One advantage for Logitech’s app is the price--it's free.
But, depending on where you stand, this app makes the iPhone/Touch an outrageously expensive wireless keyboard and mouse, or it makes the iPhone/Touch an infinitely adaptable device that is worth every penny you paid for it.
Image Credit: Logitech
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unitymind
February 02, 2010 at 11:56pm
Yeah it isn't perfect, but this is what I didn't know I needed. I love this app and free is a major plus considering all the cash I have spent on Logitech over the years I consider this a nice bonus. I installed it on all my computers and now I can control them from across the room. Scared the wife silly tonight with it :).
Would love to be able to shut down the computer from around my house. I sometimes start to drive away and forget to shut down. Be nice to just log on and shut it off.
Also I would like to it ask for a sync password for the first time use. I don't need my neighbors messing around with my computer. Although I am not sure if you can log into it unless you already have wifi access from the secure network. Have to test it out.
Thanks Logitech!
reckford
February 02, 2010 at 5:11pm
Jee guys it sure is cOLD in here. This type of app had been around since the dark ages of *shudder* 1.2 firmware updates. I guess this is the *official* product of those early creations though. I give logitech the thumbs up for getting this on the market.
TheTolsonator
February 02, 2010 at 3:04pm
Loved this app, been using my desktop as my media center until I can get a HTPC and I love not having to hop up to change movies or skip around scenes anymore...
The Tolsonator
Tristan Heitkemper
February 02, 2010 at 3:24pm
thats funny i just got this app, another great free app is "off", you can remotely turn off your computers
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