WeBe is an iPhone app that is hard to review. On the one hand, it is extremely well-designed and executed. It works almost flawlessly. On the other hand, its usefulness is questionable. If nothing else, WeBe exceeds in being delightfully simple. WeBe turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a wireless mouse. That ‘s it, plain and simple.
WeBe has four customizable settings: Splashcreen on startup (self-explanatory), Sound (I found these to be annoying, so I turned them off), Show Statusbar (whether you want the top gray bar on your phone to be hidden or visible), and Touchpad animation (do you want a plain blue screen or a blue screen with the WeBe logo fading in and out?)
As for features, WeBe is as stocked as most other mice on the market. You move the cursor around by dragging your finger across your iPod. For a left click, tap the screen with one finger once, twice, or three times, depending on how many clicks you want. Right clicks are done by tapping with two fingers. You can scroll the screen by sliding two fingers across your phone. To drag a window or highlight text, just double tap the screen with one finger, but keep your finger held down on the second tap while you drag your finger as needed. To exit the ‘mouse mode ‘ on your iPhone and return to the main menu, tap and hold the screen with three fingers.
As far as performance goes, I saw no red flags. The app recognizes your touches fairly well. Once in a while, it had some problems recognizing my right clicks, but these instances were few and far between. I was quite shocked at how responsive the app was. I experienced little-to-no-lag when using the app.
In order to run WeBe on your Mac, you ‘ll need to download a free program from weblooks.com. Once you open the program on your Mac, you ‘ll open the app on your iPhone. You ‘ll see a list of the available devices to pair it with and… that ‘s it. The process couldn ‘t have been easier. The Mac program has only one customizable feature, and that is the speed of the mouse, which is adjustable from 0.5 through 10 in increments of 0.5.
The only question I have is a big one: what is the point? The best use I could think of is for someone who connects their MacBook to their big screen TV. If you, say, want to check out all of your RSS feeds and don ‘t need your keyboard, then laying on the couch with your iPhone would definitely be nicer than finding a flat surface to use your mouse.
On a personal level, I can ‘t think of any uses for this app in my life. My MacBook is not connected to any external monitor, so using my iPhone instead of the trackpad is pointless. For me, that was the most frustrating thing about the app. It ‘s well-designed, has a great interface, and works great. The problem is I have no ideas on how to use it. If you have one, by all means, download this app.
WeBe is available now in the App Store for $1.99.
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