This is truly awesome!
Great for IT folks who want to reboot servers or those who still use PINE. You could also do some basic scripting, on-the-fly coding and more.
Perhaps one of the most useful apps for the MDA!
PocketPutty
Tested on the MDA and it works great! There are few glitches with the display boxes interfering with the desktop, but it's not a huge deals. As long as you can get a secure prompt and session, everyone's happy :)
Here's what it looks like...
Let's start with the SSH/Telnet selection:
Once you've contacted the server, you may end up with a key confirmation screen:
Click OK and proceed. Here we're into the box (in portrait mode). Notice that the keyboard now blocks the prompt! Oops:
One UI problem is that the keyboard in this case should drop from the top. If you want to use the CTRL key, the slide-out keyboard doesn't have it..
Anyway, let's edit a file:
Done. How about a tail of the access logs and see who's on?
And or course, let's check email using Pine:
And an actual message but this time, we'll slide out the keyboard for typing:
All in all, being able to perform server functions from the MDA is awesome. Imagine being able to carry this device around and on-the-fly server actions can be performed. Just don't shutdown -h now! :)
Posted 05/16/2006 by Administrator | Filed under: Software / Apps
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