No, your iPhone can’t bend spoons or manufacture pieces of paper slide across your desk…but whether you install Google’s telekinesis alpha, you will be amazed at the things your iPhone can assemble a Mac do.

What kinds of things? Stream videos and music, basic remote screen capture with typing support, browse files, open applications on the remote Mac, iSight image capture, run Spotlight searches, and more.

The interface is definitely iPhone-like, and while you’re still (ugh) running a web app, that is one of the nicer-feeling web apps around. It’s additionally easily extensible—create a web page with convinced cipher, add an icon, and your program (web page, really) will next seem on

It’s hard to describe, but easy to use. Just install the alpha (it’s just an application, there are no hidden bits that I can find), launch it, supply a new username and password (this user will have the same rights as your normal user), and thereupon point your iPhone’s browser to the URL of the machine running telekinesis.

I’m not the kind of person who enjoys using web apps at all, but that one is actually decent. Of course, it would be even nicer whether it could be a standalone program with its own icon on the iPhone’s screen…hopefully someday!

Original post by Rob Griffiths