TouchTerm – The most useful iPhone app in my arsenal
A couple of months ago, I watched an ex-driver of the President mention that as the President’s driver, he had to keep track of all the outlets to the safe houses and hospitals while he was driving the Commander-In-Chief. I thought to myself, that’s what I do too, except, I have to keep track of all the Wi-Fi hotspots on the Denver-Boulder corridor while riding public transportation in case I need to tend to the servers. However, I have recently discovered a cool little iPhone app, TouchTerm, that has saved the day for me. I now have complete SSH access to all my servers from my iPhone, no more keeping track of Wi-Fi hotspots.
Having used all sorts of monitoring tools for the servers, there is nothing like direct shell access from anywhere. I recommend this iPhone app to developers who are on the go. This saves you time from spending time writing monitoring tools that you can access from the iPhone; TouchTerm gives you direct access to the shell.
TouchTerm has the following features:
- Complete server, connection, and password management.
- RSA/DSA Key-based authentication and public key distribution via e-mail.
- Rock-solid SSH implementation based on OpenSSL and OpenSSH.
- Wi-Fi and EDGE/3G support: access and administer your servers from anywhere.
- VT100 Terminal Emulation: Use top, screen, emacs, vi — virtually any console application.
- Landscape mode; Full-screen Mode; Configurable UI transparency, font size and color.
- A polished, intuitive, iPhone-standard interface.
TouchTerm screen shot