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IPhone SSH clients reviewed: iSSH, pTerm, and TouchTerm
- kylec 18y agoWhat I'm interested in is how well the touch keyboard works with SSH. To anyone that has an iPhone: is it good enough to use for anything but the simplest commands?
- axod 18y agoI chat on IRC with mine quite often when out and about, I find it fast and easy... Although some of the 'corrections' are funny. Apple corrects "twitter" to "twitted" for example.
- abstractbill 18y agoDoes the spell-checker learn, if you correct it manually?
- axod 18y agoyep it does. You only need to correct it the once as far as I've seen
- anewaccountname 18y agoCan you have it unlearn something if you give it a wrong correction?
- axod 18y agoUnfortunately doesn't look like it, if you make a mistake you have to reset the dictionary :/ Settings->General->Reset->Keyboard dictionary Which is kinda a pain if you make a mistake ;)
- felideon 18y agoOld topic, but: "Apple says that words you’ve added to the dictionary actually age. If you stop using some custom term, the iPhone gradually learns to forget it. That’s handy behavior if you never intended for that word to become part of the dictionary to begin with (that is, it was a mistake)." http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/iphone-keyboard-secrets/ http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/iphone-keyboard-se...
- axod 18y agoOf course the alternative is to install an ajax ssh client on a server, and use it from safari over https... ?
- mariorz 18y agoThe better alternative is to jailbreak your iphone and install ssh, a shell, python and many other free unix utilities you may want. I don't know why people are even voting this up.
- ashu 18y agoAbsolutely! For folks who are technical enough to care about ssh'ing from their iPhones, a jailbreak is such a no-brainer. There's so little cost involved in it now with QuickPwn and stuff..
- khafra 18y agoI personally don't jailbreak because 1) It's my main form of communication 2) Apple killed jailbroken iPhones once, they could do it again 3) I can't afford to buy an un-subsidized 3G iPhone yet. When any of those three changes, I'll jailbreak; 'til then, I'd rather pay a few bucks and keep warranteed reliability.
- mariorz 18y agoIt's also my main form of communication. You're pretty safe jailbreaking, worst case scenario: you don't update the firmware until reading whats up on a couple of websites.
- kenzoo 18y agothink about using the consoleFISH on www.serfish.com
- patrickg-zill 18y agoAre there any bluetooth keyboards that work with the iPhone? If so, that would be a killer combination.
- derefr 18y agoI'd picture the best thing to be a little device attached to the power connector that projected one of those laser keyboards. I don't know how miniaturizable those are at this point, though; it might help that the motion recognition can all be done in software, but then, that might not be the chunkiest part.
- stcredzero 18y agoSomeone could do a port of the Dasher text input system utilizing the motion sensor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher To see it in action, a Google Tech Talk: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5078334075080674416 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5078334075080674416
- lpgauth 18y agoWhy would anyone pay for this there is at least 2 terminals which are open sourced on jailbroken phones.
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoBecause not everyone wants to jailbreak their phone and risk bricking it when Apple pushes volatile updates? Personally, this is why I have an Openmoko, so I can change what I want whenever I want, and when the phone bricks, not only is it my fault, but it has a failsafe bootloader that allows me to reflash the phone over USB as much as I want...