Originally Posted by
Middle_Seat
My elderly mother wants an iPad, so we purchased her one this morning at Target. Now I'm seeing that it's going to be very confusing for her at first.
I am looking for a screen-sharing application, so we can help her remotely. The App Store has several VNC apps, but they all are designed to let an iPad user control their Mac or PC.
Is there an app that lets you do the reverse -- control an iPad remotely using a Mac or PC?
there is if you jailbreak it (at least for iphones, i assume it's been updated for ipads). otherwise no. how well it works, i have no idea. it's not officially supported.
should you choose to jailbreak it, be aware that if you bought an ipad in the past month or two, it came with ios firmware version 3.2.2 which cannot be jailbroken. however, a jailbreak for it is expected 'soon,' possibly not until the next version of the firmware (ios 4.2), when it's released next month.
Another wishful thinking question: Is there an app that changes the keyboard to have forward delete and cursor keys?
some apps offer cursor keys, including
iA Writer, but nothing system-wide.
another option is try pairing it with a bluetooth keyboard, but i'm not sure if the cursor keys work.