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iPhone When launched, Teleport will scan your network and find anymachines on which you've enabled sharing--you can then select theproper machine, enter the password, and save that connection forfuture use. This is a big timesaver over Mocha VNC, which requiresyou to manually set up all servers.

 Once connected to a machine, you'll find that Teleport can displayall of that machine's displays, and display them at their fullresolution. Mocha VNC is limited to one display at a maximumresolution of 1,680-by-1,200. You can rotate the screenhorizontally, and use the usual iPhone gestures to zoom in or outon the display. Beyond zooming, though, Teleport offers a fullsuite of gestures to do those things you'd do on a Mac or PC. Atwo-finger tap is a right-click; drag is a double-tap, followed bya drag motion; move scroll bars with two-finger vertical swipes;send the Left and Right Arrow keys with a two-fingered horizontalswipe.

 Once you memorize these gestures, interacting with a machine onTeleport is much more intuitive than it is using Mocha. It's greatbeing able to easily scroll, drag, and right-click without relyingon on-screen keyboards or having to drag a scroll bar with yourfinger. Another Teleport feature is that it sends mouse events(clicks, drags, and so on) to the location of the always-visiblemouse pointer. Mocha, when in mouse mode, moves the mouse pointerto the spot you tapped.

 This may seem like a minor difference, but it's actually a hugeadvantage for Teleport--because your finger's position isindependent of the pointer, you can see what would otherwise belocated under your finger when using Mocha. If your finger happensto be covering something you want to see, just pick it up and placeit somewhere else; the mouse pointer will stay right where it is.After spending some time with Teleport, using Mocha'sclick-and-set-position method really felt slow and clunky, and myfinger was seemingly always in the way of just what it was I wantedto see. (You can avoid this issue by toggling Mocha's screen/mousebutton, but I don't always remember to do that, and it's a bit of apain to switch every time you want to see something onscreen.)

 The area above the keyboard shows your typing in real time, even ifyou're on a slow network connectionAnother innovation in Teleporthas to do with the keyboard. When you're typing in a remote programover a network connection, there's always going to be some lag, andthat makes accurate typing difficult. To help with that problem,Teleport echoes your typing locally, as seen in the image at right,in an area immediately above the keyboard. This makes it mucheasier to write accurately, even if the network connection is slow.