Blogging My Life...I know they have VNC, SSH, etc, and those are all incredibly useful, but they just released Remote Desktop Lite for the iPhone. I use a PC for very limited tasks, so Remote Desktop for those purposes are great. In fact, I blogged about switching from Parallels back to Remote Desktop, due to speed.
But now I can do the same thing, just smaller, on my iPhone. Here are screen captures of the program and me using my PC on my iPhone:
The Start Screen for the Program:
My PC's desktop, I zoomed out by pinching:
Zooming in on IE on my PC:
Typing with the keyboard on my PC:
This phone can really do everything, it is just amazing.
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Can it COPY and PASTE?
:-P
Posted by: Brother-in-Law | August 20, 2008 12:12 PM
Yes, see http://openclip.org/
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | August 20, 2008 12:22 PM
Also check out WinAdmin. Same idea but not free.
Posted by: Sam I Am | August 20, 2008 12:27 PM
From what I saw at OpenClip.org, that will only work with certain applications, NOT including the main Mail app.
Posted by: Brother-in-Law | August 20, 2008 12:51 PM
We can hope.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | August 20, 2008 1:01 PM
Or "we" can get a Blackberry!
:-)
Posted by: Brother-in-Law | August 20, 2008 1:37 PM
how come they ask me my username and password?
I just put my IP address and then, I press connect and it ask me username and pass
Posted by: David | December 1, 2008 5:43 PM
How do you find your IP on your computer?
Posted by: Ty | January 8, 2009 9:07 PM
Also take a look at Jaadu Remote Desktop for the iPhone. It is a RDP client for the iPhone. Demo video here: http://www.jaadurdp.com/video
Posted by: jaadurdp | April 6, 2009 2:29 PM
@ Brother-in-law
> Can it COPY and PASTE?
Yes it can.
Can your blackberry do rdp? No? Well maybe you should take your dumb trolling elsewhere.
Arsehole.
Posted by: Scruff | May 22, 2009 6:19 AM
Blackberry actually can do rdp...
Posted by: Frank | July 18, 2009 10:53 AM
Umm... Not quite. The Blackberry can *kind* of do RDP. It doesn't do it very well- not sure, but the bottleneck appears to be Java. No better than the slow-as-molasses VNC apps, and input requires tedious menu drilling.
I feel I say this with some authority- I just wanted a day of work trying to get my new Bold setup to do SSH, VNC, and RDP. The Blackberry failed for all three compared to the many free options available on Windows Mobile.
Ended up going with an iPhone- still don't quite have a nice free RDP app, but it should be straighforward to port rdesktop. The paid options are pretty good- they're actually usable, unlike the options on the Blackberry.
Posted by: RevAaron | September 21, 2009 5:17 PM
does your laptop need to be in in order to access it on iphone?
Posted by: Clair | June 17, 2010 6:12 AM