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'Parallels Access' Brings Remote Desktop Access to iPhone
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Try Splashtop it is Awesome! and works great on Windows and Mac OS.
I can administer all my kids laptops and the family Desktop from my ipad or my Macbook Pro. That and Air Video are the best two apps for the ipad and iphone.
Really interesting, price I'm not all that interested in.
This would be a lot more useful on a 4.7 iPhone!
This would be a lot more useful on a 4.7 iPhone!
I have two apps that I use for remote access of Macs. One is PocketCloud and the other is VNC Viewer by RealVNC. Both do a decent job of connecting to my Mac for free. I did have to set up port forwarding on my router, but free is good.
Are you able to remote into a Mac from a Windows machine with Jump Desktop? I don't really need to be able to do it on my iPhone or iPad but I use logmein a lot to remote into my home computer from my work computer.
You can buy all sorts of remote desktop terminals on Mac/iOS/Windows for anywhere from .99$ to 99.99$
However none of them include a hosted service as I presume this does (as does logmein, etc).
The hosted service gives the ability for the solution to "just work" in contrast to other solutions which require port forwarding / firewall rules / ddns setup. While those might not be a problem for some people to organize, they are a significant problem to those people who either don't have the technical wherewithal or, more crucially, don't or can't have access to make the changes they would need to make a static setup work.
The problem with a hosted service is that there is ongoing costs associated with it's use and operation that need to be recouped. People by and large have shown a preference for monthly financing, hence the prevalence of that model, however most companies have a way of buying yearly, or even bi-yearly via invoice, allowing you to treat it more like a traditional software purchase.
Karl P
The update also includes the ability to use an iPhone or iPad's microphone remotely for desktop apps that may require them...
THIS. I use Dragon Dictation on a daily basis for transcription work, and I would love to have a remote-desktop app which would allow me to do that kind of voice-dictation work via iPhone or iPad so I'm not tied down to a computer and headset. If any of you knowledgeable people have tried an alternative solution (read: without monthly fee) that will do this, what is it? Recommendations?
THIS. I use Dragon Dictation on a daily basis for transcription work, and I would love to have a remote-desktop app which would allow me to do that kind of voice-dictation work via iPhone or iPad so I'm not tied down to a computer and headset. If any of you knowledgeable people have tried an alternative solution (read: without monthly fee) that will do this, what is it? Recommendations?
Just use an app to record audio files and then drag them into dragon for dictation later? This needs one of the Premium/Pro/Legal versions, but many people already have that anyways?
I'm going to guess that the heavily compressed audio channel here might not work well for dragon, as it is a little picky about audio quality, even locally....
Karl P
How is this different from the many dozens of other RDP, VNC, and other Remote Desktop apps that are already in the App store, and have been in the App store for many years? Some paid, some free.
I'll stick to PocketCloud Pro with unlimited VNC/RDP desktops and no subscription. But thanks anyway.
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I ran this setup for a while. I used VineVNC on my Lion server (since OSX's VNC was messed up) and then RealVNC app.
The only reason I stopped that setup was because after a while my Mac was getting inundated with authentication attempts. About a 100 per day. You could see it in the logs for the VNC server. Tons of failed password authentication.
The server will black list an IP if they fail too many times, but I just didn't like the threat being there.
I switched to TeamViewer and now I can access all my computer from all my devices.
I love this product. This is by far the best remote desktop solution around.
I've been beta testing this new release and found it to be much more faster then the 1.0
I've been beta testing this new release and found it to be much more faster then the 1.0
I do use teamviewer (or used to when i needed access). Any competition is good competition though. hopefully both of them will step their game up.
I logged on her for the first time in months just to share parallels access. But i see its already been discovered. Hands down the best since logmein. I have used them all. It pretty much does it all and does it the best.