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“iWash” for iPhone

Are you suck of cleaning the touch display of your iPhone? Then you should try iWash!

Download Links

• ClubWest
• Big Brain Studios

“Speed Test” for iPhone

Speed Test is a native iPhone application without advertising and allows you to measure the network speed of your iPhone or iPod Touch. The application come from speedtest.net which is a well known site for measuring your speed of your network connection.

Download Link

• iTunes download link Speed Test

“Network Utility” for iPhone

There are not so many network tools for admins available on the iPhone but a few are available like the “Network Utility“. It provides some terminal-like network tools on your iPhone. The standard edition is free and comes with some advertisements whereas the pro version does not contain any advertisement.

It comes with the main features:

• Ping (ICMP Echo)
• TCP/IP Port scan
• GeoIP Lookup
• Geotargeting with Google Maps
• Whois Query
• IP Address Information

Download Links

• iTunes download link Net Utility
• iTunes download link Network Utility Pro

“ChkWebSpeed” for iPhone

Another nice and free network tool for administrators: ChkWebSpeed. It measures the download speed of any website via WiFi or Cellular network. You can add your own websites and check the min, max & avg download speed over 10 iterations.

So you can easily compare several the speed of several the web sites to see if the site is slow or your current network connection.

• iTunes download link ChkWebSpeed

VNC Client for iPhone

It sounds quite strange, a VNC client for the iPhone. But incredible it works! I’ve used the Mocha VNC client because it is compatible with all known VNC server solutions. There are also other VNC clients available, but as far as I know they are not working together with all VNC server solutions.

I’ve tested the VNC client in a WiFi via a VPN connection to a Linux Red Hat Enterprise 3 server with the VNC server that comes with the Red Hat Enterprise distribution. After creating a profile and starting the remote connection a small surprise: a warning the my iPhone is low on memory. Funny, never seen such a warning before on my iPhone. But nevertheless the connection works.

The client supports landscape mode as well. And it’s possible to change the zoom of the remote display. Mouse handling is maybe not perfect but basically it works to remote control your server. I’ve not yet checked it over a G3 connection, it maybe a little bit slow. But for emergency cases it can be useful.

Links:

• Mocha VNC Homepage
• Download link Mocha VNC Lite iTunes Store
• Download link Mocha VNC iTunes Store