Yes, your iPod Touch / iPhone can do that! I do not apperceive if it is your case, but I accept a Linux Media Center computer in my active allowance with Mythbuntu installed, that makes me absolutely happy. So far, this has been appealing abundant my capital passion... until I got my absolutely nice iPod Touch! Here you are alert to a blessed buyer of an iPod Touch 2nd generation. Since I bought it, I accept been aggravating to do lots of aberrant stuff. What can I say? This is my hobby, my affection time! I achievement that you acquisition this commodity abundant added absorbing than my wife does!!! So one of this aberrant being was: would not it be nice to about-face on my active allowance computer from my iPod Touch??? First things first: Wake on LAN Or, how you can about-face on computers through the network That's right. Everything can be able by an Ethernet computer networking accepted that allows a computer to be angry on (or woken up) by a arrangement message, that is alleged Wake-on-LAN, or in short, WoL. Since this is an Ethernet standard, it will ONLY assignment on your Ethernet agenda (no, it does not assignment on wireless cards absorbed to your pc). The abutment for Wake-on-LAN is implemented on the motherboard of a computer and the arrangement interface. It is not at all abased on the Operating System you are running. So, acquaint me, does your motherboard - arrangement agenda abutment WoL?? It's a appealing diffused standard, so your computer should actual acceptable abutment it too. Enabling Wake on LAN capabilities To do this, you charge access into the computer BIOS. Usually, you aloof charge to columnist F1, or F2, or Del keys appropriate afterwards you about-face on your pc. If the Operating System starts to load, again you accept absent your chance, and charge to restart again! I accept an IBM Netvista desktop computer, and for me I had to columnist F1. Once you are inside, alpha chase for the card account "Wake on LAN", or annihilation similar. In my IBM pc, it was beneath the "Automatic Power On" option. Aloof go in there and accredit that option.