Ever wanted to control your Mac from your iPhone while still being able to fully customize everything you can do?  Sure there are remote control apps out there, but many of them require software on both the iPhone and the desktop (and are rarely free).

Brett Terpstra has developed a working PHP script called HomeControl that will let you control your Mac from within Mobile Safari.  The experience has a native iPhone look and feel and it mimics the iOS UI controls…  Read More

Stack Overflow recently hit 1 million questions and they receive about 60 million page views per month. Stack Overflow runs on only 5 servers. Social bookmarking service Digg.com receives 200 million pageviews per month and runs on 500 servers. Proportionately something seems off according to Joel Spolsky, the co-founder of Stack Overflow.

He tweeted about that issue recently. It turns out the problem Digg was having is that the original version was running on classic LAMP (Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python). Digg had to port their code to Cassandra because 500 servers wouldn’t be able to handle the load of Digg 4, the newest version of the website.

Need a reason to jailbreak? If SBSettings isn’t enough of a reason, Action Menu sure is. Being my favorite jailbreak tweak, I now dream up ways that it can make the iPhone’s interaction with selected text even better. And it has an SDK, so anything’s possible, even though the developer is not taking requests.

Here’s what I’d like to see:

1. Bookmarklet support. Run any JavaScript action on selected text just as a bookmarklet would. Maybe even pull directly from a bookmarklets folder from Safari’s bookmarks.

2. Custom PHP ‘get’ or ‘post’ support. Specify your php variables in the settings, and automatically submit your selection.

3. Clipboard Sync. Clipboard History is available in the Plus Pack. Now how about a 2-way clipboard history sync to any desktop?

4. Rich text. It’s on the way.

5. HTML formatting. Maybe even list styles, automatically inserting numbers or bullets.

6. Search in AppStore/Cydia/Custom site

7. GV Connect/GV Mobile+ integration.

8. Encrypted password database. I save hard to remember passwords in my Favorites menu. I’d like a more secure option with descriptions instead. Password generator with auto adding to DB would be great.

9. Open in new tab for Mobile Safari. There’s a tweak for that, but I’m always trying to keep my Mobile Substrate extensions to a minimum.

10. Send to Quicksilver or LaunchBar on your desktop.

What would you like to see?