Re: ANN: Ever wanted to use your PC's keyboard and mouse to enter text/navigate in your connected Pocket PC? The free Remote Keyboard is for you!

Just downloaded, installed, and ran. Very nice, but with one exception. Since the PPC screen is not "mimicked" on the PC's screen, I see limited usefulness when used over a WAN or Internet, how can you see the mouse of what you're typing if you can't see the screen. The only exception would be where wireless devices are shunted to a different segment from wired devices.

Other than that, it appears to be a well functioning useful program. I like the telnet capability. I would imagine that you could control one PPC from another??

Jim

Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices] wrote:
Remote Keyboard <http://www.trancreative.com/rkb.aspx> by TranCreative is a really nice application. It’s compatible with all Pocket PC operating system versions (even WM5, which is a big thing because of the new WM5 networking model ActiveSync uses) and screen resolutions (except for the Landscape mode, as far as mouse handling is concerned) and, in addition to supporting the keyboard and the mouse on the PC, it also supports

1. connecting to remote (non-ActiveSync-ed and/or WM5) Pocket PC’s by
their IP address
2. broadcasting to discover (non-ActiveSync-ed and/or WM5) Pocket
PC’s in the neighborhood (LAN); that is, you don’t need to enter
the IP address of a Pocket PC that is on the same LAN as your
desktop computer. (Actually, this is discovering
ActiveSync-connected WM5 devices is working)
3. clipboard synchronization. This works in both directions – that
is, if you copy any text in the clipboard on your desktop
computer, a Ctrl-C will paste it onto your Pocket PC and vice versa

Installation

Just download rkbsetup.exe <http://www.trancreative.com/downloads/rkb/rkbsetup.exe>from the official homepage <http://www.trancreative.com/rkb.aspx> and install it (you won't need to separately download Pocket PC Connector as it's also included in rkbsetup.exe ). It will install both the server application on the desktop (Start/Programs/Remote Keybord/Pocket PC Connector) and the Pocket PC client to the Pocket PC.



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Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.
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