Did you know that you can use your phone as track pad for your laptop or desktop. You may think that if my laptop has track pad then why should I use my phone for it. But you can put your phone into good use if you are not using it.
Using your phone as track pad is helpful in many cases. I feel so lazy to operate my laptop if I have connected it to my TV via HDMI and watching movies or streaming TV shows. In this case using phone as track pad is quite handy. As i can operate my laptop just by relaxing on my sofa.
This Tutorial will guide you, how you can use phone as track pad. Give it try..
Using Android or iPhone as a TRackpad:
To use your phone as trackpad you need download app called Remote Mouse on your phone from play store or app store. Once you download the app go to http://www.remotemouse.net/ and download the Remote mouse client for your computer. This app is free and has lot features, The paid version of this app has lot more features but free app also can do the most of the stuff.
Once you install the computer client and run it, After that open up the app on your phone and connect to your computer. This app gets connected to your computer over WiFi. Once its connected you can begin using your phone as trackpad. This app has very handy features like you can use it as trackpad, as keyboard, as shut down menu option, as numeric keyboard. it also shows you the taskbar option on your phone.
Above screenshot shows the options available in shutdown menu. You can shutdown it or put it in sleep mode or restart it or even log off it.
For using the keyboard just switch to keyboard and start typing anything you want.You can even work with your word file or type a url in browser. It shows the keyboard available on your phone.
One of the most handy feature that i like most is that it has taskbar option that we have pined to taskbar. its quite a handy feature that lets you access all your pined application from task bar.
There are lot of apps like this available on play store and app store. But i found this bit user friendly, you can give a try to other apps also just search for remote mouse or mobile mouse. Subscribe to my blog for more tech tip and leave your comments.