Just when you thought that touchscreen technology can't get any cooler, developer Jahanzeb Serwani made a new homebrew application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch which allows you to use your Apple gadget's touchscreen as a remote touchpad which can control your PC's mouse pointer. For more details about this nifty homebrew app, read the full article.

We mentioned in an earlier post on our Apple blog that videogame console emulation is apparently possible on Apple's new Apple TV. If you're still a bit skeptical about that, here's proof. Gizmodo has posted a video of an enterprising Apple TV owner - Rusty - playing Super Mario Bros. on an Apple TV.

Rusty says that this was made possible through the use of a standard Apple TV OS plus a few hacks. "Pretty simple hack to accomplish," he said. "Just enabled shh. Then VNC, AFP and USB. Then installed Nestopia and Emulator Enhancer." Nestopia is one of the emulators confirmed to be compatible with the Apple TV OS.

Anyway, check out the video below. Now who's to say that Apple gaming's nonexistent?

Remember when we told you of stuff that the Apple TV is doing that it's not supposed to do: i.e., running Apple TV on a MacBook, and getting the Xvid to work on the Apple TV? Those are only some of what you can do with the help of this extensive tutorial from the Tutorial Ninjas.

The Ninjas made it clear that doing the stuff they specify will have to require you to put apart your precious Apple TV. If you get over that quite iffy part, you will be able to do the following stuff:

• Disable the Firewall
• Enable SSH & VNC
• Playing xvid/divx encoded stuff
• Stopping Watchdog
• Running Applications(Firefox, Centerstage, etc)
• Installing Quartz

All you need is a computer (preferrably an Intel Mac), a torx 10 and a torx 8, a way to hook up a 2.5" hard drive to your computer, and a method of SSHv1 into a box. But remember: you're on your own when you start breaking apart your hardware for these mods; albeit the steps that the Ninjas provided, available on the "via" link below, can be very detailed.

There has to be one or two moments in your computing life where you wish you had access to your home Mac when you're somewhere else. Apple has a solution for that called Remote Desktop - an application that allows you to access your files and pretty much everything else at home from a remote PC.

To have that luxury, however, you need to shell out at least US$ 300. That easily polarizes the users into those who can and cannot afford the handy little program. Fortunately, VNC has presented us a free alternative so that even casual users can enjoy the feature.

When VNC is installed into the remote and home computers, it allows you to easily get in the desktop of one or more computers if you have a LAN at home. Just remember to leave the Mac running and connected to the internet when you're not home and you can access it anywhere you want.

Users with home LANs who plan to use VNC often are encouraged to have their own domain names to avoid having to remember long IP addresses. These may also be written down, but is not advised for security reasons.