I can tell you that, from an IT Professional’s perspective, I would purchase an iPhone just for this app. This app is my new best friend; and just in time for a well earned vacation next week.  To sum it up, this app does remote desktop better than any other app available today;  throw in VMware support, and you have an extraordinary tool for network support staff that can easily jusify the cost of an iPhone and data plan for yourself and your staff.  $29.99 is stiff, even for a tech-savvy person that wants to control his home or office PC, but not for an IT Pro that is working 24 hours a day already.  What this app means to me, is that I can quickly (as in as little as 90 seconds with good 3G) login to my Cisco IPSec VPN (that post is coming in two weeks) and access my Windows Servers and VMs.  The client connects flawlessly (and stays connected!), the screen scales effortlessly using the iphone multi-touch; it has the typical pop-up keyboard, and finite mouse control utility (easy right-clicks).  Scrolling is fast and smooth.  Mouse selection using your finger takes some practice, but that is understandable.  You can only connect to one session at a time.  WiFi is better of course, but access over 3G is damn good.  Considering the name, and the obvious investment from VMware, I expect more to come in later releases, although it is highly recommended at version 1.0 (repeat that to yourself a few times, you will not hear it often).  Actual usage is fast and reliable.  You can solve problems, get things done, and get back to what little life your job permits.  Can a geek make a higher endorsement?

If you don’t know who Wyse is, you’re wasting your time and do not need this app.  These apps will do nicely for you.

PocketCloud supports SSL and has limited support for RSA 2-factor authentication. PocketCloud fits into an established VMware View host environment and does not require any special setup or software installed.  The app will run on the Touch and the iPhone, and supports MS Server 2003 and later sever versions, as well as XP and later desktop operating systems (home versions are not supported).   Although I’ll primarily use this remotely, this is a tool that will prove to be indispensable to on-site support staff that roam about an office building or a factory (especially at $229 for a touch).

PocketCloud integrates with an available Windows (32-bit only) host-based agent that provides advanced capabilities such as Thin-Browser: an enhanced, server-side browser capability, enabling full access to websites for rich and interactive content such as Flash, Silverlight, and Java, and ActiveX content.  The Thin-Browser is available from the options screen when connected to a Windows host running the agent and provides a web browsing experience that is much more complete and robust than Safari; but despite the Wyse claim, is not noticeably faster.  Regardless, when you need to access Flash or ActiveX content, you can.  And that is definitely a pickup.

The PocketCloud App is available for $29.99 from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. PocketCloud Windows agent can be downloaded for free from www.wyse.com/iphone.

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It has recently come to the attention of angry Cydia users that they are being watched by many of the applications they have installed from the App Store.  Very detailed information about you and your usage patterns are being “Phoned Home.”

One provider in particular that has caught their attention: Pinch Media.

Being an approved app, it must first ask you for permission to use your location. If you tap “Don’t Allow”, it will ask you again in about a minute, the next time its ad changes. So you either stop using this app (because it pesters you so much about the location question), or you finally submit and tap “OK”. From that point on, your location and path info (your actual physical path through your area each time you launch the app) belongs to Pinch Media, Inc.

Once an iPhone application is Pinch Media enabled, the following information is stored locally:

• iPhone’s unique ID
• iPhone Model
• OS Version
• Application version
• If the application is cracked/pirated
• If your iPhone is jailbroken
• time & date you start the application
• time & date you close the application
• your current latitude & longitude
• your gender (if facebook enabled)
• your birth month (if facebook enabled)
• your birth year (if facebook enabled)

Your data is continually tracked and every use of the application recorded for the life of that application on your phone. Once you have a reliable connection, the information stored locally is sent in automatically to the mother-ship.  At no point are you told what the Pinch Media enabled application is doing and at no time are you given an option to “opt-out”.  Pinch Media explains itself here.

Pinch Media, however, is not the only tracking provider on the iPhone.  There are three other companies: Flurry, Medialets, and Mobclix.

Developers integrate these systems for much the same reason people use Google Analytics: to better understand how their customers use their products.  Not all applications using analytics on the back-end are to be feared. For the most part, the data being recorded is anonymous and helps the developers make better apps. The problem is that, as of today, there’s no way to know which apps are the safe ones.  Fortunately, for Jailbreakers, there’s a solution, PrivaCy.

PrivaCy is a Settings Panel application that allows you to “selectively opt-out of sending anonymous usage statistics” to certain providers such as; Flurry, Medialets, Mobclix and Pinch Media.

PrivaCy can be installed by going into the Cydia section of the Cydia app (or, search for PrivaCy in Cydia). Once installed, you can then go into the stock Settings application > PrivaCy and choose to turn on/off the ability to send anonymous usage statistics for Flurry, Medialets, Mobclix and Pinch Media.

PrivaCy was developed as a team effort with Flurry, Medialets, Mobclix and Pinch Media.  They not only gave their blessings, but also their technical expertise in disabling their systems.

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Connect your iPhone or iPod Touch to your PC and launch the program.  That’s it. No installation required.  i-FunBox will load, search for your device, read the contents and display them in a double-pane interface, with the folder structure on the left side and the date stored in the selected folder on the right side.

3. Managing Music and Movie on iPhone/iPod ownload Apple iTunes managed audio and video in iPhone or iPod to PC as a backup copy. Upload songs and movies to iPhone or iPod from PC. Supports also the iPhone 3G and lastest firmware 2.2.1.

Features of i-FunBox File Browser

Total Control of iPhone File System - Manage files on your iPhone in a way just like Windows Explorer but more robust and friendly.

Hi-Speed General Purpose Storage - Use your iPhone as an USB Portable Disk for general files. Exploit the large flash memory on iPhone with transmission speed beyond 5MB/s.

Managing Music and Movie on iPhone/iPod - Download Apple iTunes managed audio and video in iPhone or iPod to PC as a backup copy. Upload songs and movies to iPhone or iPod from PC.

Flexible Batch Wallpaper Uploader - Automatically convert and upload images to iPhone as wallpaper. Any image sizes are supported including photos from professional cameras.

i-FunBox is Windows XP, Vista and Win7 compatible. There is no need for jailbreaking;  However additional functionality will be available for Jailbroken devices.

You can dowload the latest version of i-FunBox here:  iFunBox v0.8.250.160 [Eng]

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