More on VNC and Remote Mac Control

Reader Charlie Wood uses a Tablet PC running Windows but likes to read his news in NetNewsWire, which runs only on OS X. So, like Teddy T. Bear, he uses VNC. He also uses his iPaq as an iTunes remote control. He explains:

"My iPaq 4155 is only 320x240, but if I minimize the iTunes window on my Mac and put it in the upper left hand corner of the screen, vnc turns my iPaq into a great iTunes remote.

But even more interesting (to me anyway) is this: no Windows RSS reader can hold a candle to NetNewsWire, so when I'm doing that information overload thing using my Motion M1300 tablet (which I'm only forced to do because Apple killed the "Hollywood" tablet project long ago), I do so using NetNewsWire via VNC.

Ironically, since the Mac UI has always been more mouse-oriented that Windows', it makes for a better pen interface. Customize the NNW toolbar to include buttons for "next unread" and "mark all as read", and you have the best Tablet PC RSS reader UI available. (And since the tablet's screen resolution is 1024x768 there's no scrolling like with a 640x480 PPC.)"

More here.