Turn your phone into a computer mouse with Remote Mouse

Remote Mouse lets you use your iPhone, Android or Windows Phone as a touchpad to control your onscreen cursor in a pinch.

I'm writing this one with my wife in mind, who has been using a work-issued laptop with a broken trackpad for nearly a year. She has adapted by using a wireless mouse, but since she also has a work-issued iPhone 6 , she could use that instead of the old mouse I gave her and carry one less item in her work bag. All that's needed is the Remote Mouse app and its companion Mac/PC app.

Apple Swift follows familiar path to .Net and Android

Silver lets developers use a common language across multiple platforms, but it is not a cross-platform technology

Swift, Apple's new language for iOS and OS X application development, will be extended to the Microsoft .Net and Google Android platforms via a free third-party implementation called Silver.

Built by RemObjects Software, Silver enables developers to write code directly against .Net, Java, Android, and APIs, the Silver Web page says. Silver, which moved a general beta stage a couple weeks ago, serves as a native compiler for its supported platforms, and non-UI code can be shared between platforms.