Trying to give something back to the Community...
Now if I didn't have an iPad I would probably think "Why would you want to do this?" However, as an iPad owner and seeing as almost everyone has an iPhone (except me), I can really see the usefulness of this free application you can download from iTunes for remotely waking up machines from iPads/ iPhones even if just to scare your desk neighbour thinking your machine is possessed as it turns itself on all by itself just as you enter the office.
More details from the following blog post by Rod:
http://www.1e.com/bizblog/post/2010/08/09/Wakeup-computers-on-your-network-using-your-iPad-and-your-iPhone.aspx
If you just want to download it goto:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/1e-wakeup/id385262014?mt=8
Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/cliffs_blog/archive/2010/08/24/1e-wakeup-computers-on-your-network-using-your-ipad-iphone.aspx