If you have done the "JailBreak" and installed applications on your iPod Touch then you could do worse than spending a few moments to change the root password - as this is known on the Internet.

So go to the "Settings" panel, and find your iPods IP address (in my case 192.168.0.138) - ssh into it like this :

ssh root@192.168.0.138

when asked for the password :

password: alpine

and then

passwd

to change the password to something else.

Please be aware that first time you log into your iPod Touch with ssh it will need to generate a set of keys, which will take a little bit of time.

I'm impressed, I've just installed VNSea on my iPod Touch, and managed to remote control my server from it.

Additionally I managed to do a screendump, and retrieve it through the wireless network as a AppleShare disk from the iPod filesystem!

Hm! Here in the UK musicradio.com seems to have started a new service aimed squarely at those of us that have either a iPhone or a iPod Touch (or both of course) - interesting.

Griffin released a new set of speakers originally made for the iPod at CES, but they are quite interesting even if you forget about the iPod part.

They are in practice 2 products

- Wireless speakers with input either from the iPod dock, or from the line input jacks.

- A remote controlled iPod dock.

In addition to this they have a video output even from the iPod Touch (iPot).

The "dock" also functions as a charging station for the 2 speakers - and they are truly wireless, with a transmitter built into the dock, and can be controlled from the remote control.

For me these may be interesting to connect to one of the Mac's in the house, and then take into the garden in the summer...

If you need to control any program on your Mac, then "Remote Buddy" is a very good option, which actually works very well.

Remote Buddy has for a long time had the ability to remote control almost any software running on a Mac using one of the many remote control solutions around (I have used several of them, including Apple's own remote control), particularly to control iTunes or MediaCentral (our chosen media management solution in the living room).

In their latest few upgrades a option to turn on a internal webserver has been introduced, to enable Remote buddy control using quite decent Ajax powered interfaces looking like this on the first screen