Windows Mobile app turns phone into "air mouse"

Developer Marcin Baliniak has released a free Windows Mobile application that turns touchscreen phones into input devices for a desktop PC. "GRemote" features touchpad and mouse functionality, and allows "air mousing" with accelerometer-equipped phones, Baliniak says. The GRemote application consists of two components, GResmoteSetup.CAB, installable on Windows Mobile devices, and GRemoteServer.exe, an application for Windows XP/Vista desktop PCs. Once the corresponding applications have been run on each device, says Baliniak, the mobile device communicates with the desktop via TCP/IP -- USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi are all supported -- and acts as an input... [read full story]