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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Commercial, Mobile

WinAdmin: Remote Desktop on the iPhone

WinAdminAs an iPhone user who works on Windows servers daily, I decided to purchase the WinAdmin application ($11.99) which promised to provide remote desktop connectivity from my iPhone to supported Windows operating systems (XP, Vista, 2003, 2008). So far the app has worked as advertised. I have a list of servers with all the necessary login information saved (name, IP address, username, password, screen resolution) so that I simply have to launch WinAdmin and touch a server name to be connected to a remote desktop session on the server.

Navigating the remote desktop screen simply requires a finger drag. To click, tap your finger once or twice (for single or double of course). To right-click, tap your finger, then tap again and hold. WinAdmin supports connecting to the console session, and it supports sending Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

I have tested all of the connection methods: internal WiFi, external WiFi with VPN, 3G with VPN, and Edge with VPN. All of the connections worked fine, but as expected connecting to our Cisco VPN over Edge caused a bit of latency in the RDP session in WinAdmin. However, the latency was not enough to make the program unusable by any means. Now I'm able to sit in traffic and reset Active Directory passwords, or drink coffee at Panera Bread while I add a printer to our print server.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Apple, Freeware

Todd's Favorite Mac Apps: CoRD

CoRDSince I often have to connect to Windows servers (or sometimes workstations) from my Mac laptop, CoRD is my RDP client of choice. CoRD is a free and open-source application for Mac that allows me to save multiple servers' connection information in the handy sidebar so that I can quickly start remote desktop connections.

CoRD lets me connect to multiple servers simultaneously while only taking up one window of screen real estate, or I can use windowed mode so that each connection has a dedicated window.

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Filed under: Hardware, Linux

LogMeIn announces support for Palm Foleo

Palm FoleoWhen Palm announced the $500 Palm Foleo mobile companion a few months ago, the world pretty much shrugged. It's not quite a laptop, and it's not quite a PDA. So what good is an underpowered device that doesn't run many applications, but lets you interact with your PDA or Smartphone?

Well, as with any computing device, it turns out the Palm Foleo will only be as good as its software. And the more we hear about the software available or the Foleo, the more we warm up to this little device. First of all, the Foleo runs Linux, which means you might be able to slap some custom software on there in addition to the default applications.

And it turns out you can also use the Foleo to access and control your home or work PC on the go. LogMeIn is showing off a software client for the Palm Foleo at this week's LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. LogMeIn offers free and paid services. LogMeIn Free lets you control your PC over the internet. The paid version lets you share files between your local and remote machines. Of course, you could also just use the free version to email yourself files from your home PC. But you didn't hear that from us.

At this rate, forget the whole companion for your mobile phone thing. You can think of the Palm Foleo as a light weight, instant-on internet terminal for web browsing and accessing all the data on your remote PC. Of course, for $500 you could also just go out and buy a used or underpowered laptop. But it wouldn't be as small, or umm... new.

[via jkOnTheRun]

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Productivity, Web services, Apple, Microsoft, Freeware

LogMeIn now available for Macs

LogMeIn MacLogMeIn has some lovin' for us Mac users, and has released an early preview of LogMeIn for the Mac platform. It seems "preview" is replacing "beta" as the label of choice for early release software these days.

If you've used LogMeIn on a PC in the past, the experience of using it on a Mac will feel very familiar - in fact, it's identical. So identical, it's almost creepy.

For mixed-platform homes, this new free addition to LogMeIn's suite is very welcome.

[Thanks Steve T.]

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Productivity

SoonR: Access dekstop files from your phone

It's been a while since we've talked about SoonR, a company that lets you access your desktop files on the go from your mobile phone. Recently SoonR was named one of 25 startups to watch by Business 2.0, and the company put out a nifty promotional video (with really horrible microphone placement. Make sure not to listen to this with the volume cranked up, or your ears will burst).




SoonR looks to me a lot like Orb, but for productivity rather than entertainment. Orb lets you access music, movies and pictures from your desktop on the go, with scaling technology to stream data to small screens over slow internet connections.

SoonR does the same thing for PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, and other desktop files and applications. You can route Skype calls from your mobile phone through your computer.

The program should work on most web-enabled cell phones, although you'll need a computer running Windows NT, 2000, or XP

[via UberGizmo]

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