iPhone stories on The Register, Palringo & VNC Lite
Posted by testcrunch on August 14th, 2008
I was reading the iPhones stories on www.theregister.co.uk which are always a bit of a hoot with some very choice opinions from that site.
What is even better reading are the comments to the anti-iPhone stories. I think they are a bit more positive towards the iPhone than they were 6 months ago but you still get at least one person frothing at the mouth lambasting the poor little critter. The negative comments tend to come from Nokia supports who consider the iPhone to be way behind their favoured phone. They could be right for all I know. Maybe we need a head count of how many people have switched from the iPhone to the (any) Nokia and vice versa. Stick that result up on the Register and you’ll see a war start.
Downloaded VNC Lite for the iPhone, another app that allows you to control your PC from the iPhone. I downloaded TightVNC, which is a server app for VNC Lite to connect to and that installed OK. Ran VNC Lite on the iPhone and waddayaknow, it worked fine.
I also downloaded the horribly named Palringo messaging service for the iPhone which can access the Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Jabber and Yahoo Messenger messnger services. This kind of app can be a pain to setup on the iPhone as there is so much text to enter. It would be good to have a proper keyboard for the iPhone when setting up stuff like this. I had a look at the Customer Reviews to see what was said about setting it up and as usual the reviews had entered into a war of words amongst some of the reviewers. The easy way to set Palringo up is to download the desktop client and create a Palringo account on the PC and then set up all the connections to Yahoo, Live Messenger and Google Talk there so that you don’t have to do that on the iPhone but instead just logon to Palringo on the iPhone.
The 3rd party apps are still getting jammed up within a few hours of use. There is also no content when clicking on the iPod icon. The iPhone software said there were no podcasts, music or movies. When I docked the iPhone, iTunes displayed everything that has been synced, so it is just the iPhone software that is horribly confused. Time for another restore and add the 3rd party apps back on one at a time to determine the culprit.