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What exclamation of excitement is powerful enough for this app? “Are you f***ing serious? S**t, that’s awesome!” We’re trying to take deep breaths over here but we — honest to goodness — just packed away our home theater keyboard and mouse. 5 minutes had us controlling all 5 computers in the house with this. We’re actually typing this post from an iPhone… and now we’re done with that.

Clicking the picture to the right will take you to the App Store.

Here’s why we’re so excited: it’s made by Logitech, it’s free and it lets us use our iPhone as an input device for any computer in the house. We’ve been really impressed with the quality of Logitech products for years… the Logitech diNovo Media Desktop has been our HID (Human Interface Device) for the last four years on the PC side of life. We always knew we would replace it with another Logitech device, but we had no idea it would be an iPhone app.

Download the app to your iPhone or iPod touch (we can imagine this will be awesome with the iPad). While that’s installing, head to your Mac or PC and download the Touch Mouse Server application. This application is compatible with Mac OS 10.4 or later and Windows XP, Vista or 7. The iPhone or iPod touch you’re using must be on the same network as the computers you’d like to control. With the software installed and running on the computer(s), open the Touch Mouse app and select a computer (server) from the list. That’s it. You’re now controlling your box with Touch Mouse.

The mouse defaults to showing the button names and two finger options just like a Mac trackpad. You can configure a lot of options just by clicking the settings icon in the bottom right corner. We had to adjust the tracking speed on the PC, but the Mac side was perfect (there’s a big difference in screen resolution). The feel is so close to Apple’s Multi-Touch trackpad that we’re surprised there aren’t legal issues here. :) Actually, the app doesn’t include Multi-Touch gesturing… just the usual two-finger scroll and secondary click, probably to prevent recourse from Apple. Who knows? Maybe we’ll see more in the next version of the App. It is already very well polished, and it’s something we’d recommend for anyone looking to remove a little clutter from the living room.

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