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Remote Control: Using your iPhone to manage your PCs

A number of apps for the iPhone that allow you to remotely control your computers

By David Strom 1 comment

September 28, 2009, 10:46 AM — Looking to remotely control your desktops or servers from your iPhone? There are a number of apps you can download, some that are free, some that are pricey. They work with a variety of remote-control products including VNC, LogMeIn, WebEx and Windows' Remote Desktop. And now that the iPhone supports MMS, you can actually send screen shots too!

Mocha VNC, $6 and a free lite version that does most of the paid version except send CTL-ALT-DEL keystrokes
WebEx PCNow, free but requires a WebEx account for $13/month
Jaadu VNC,probably one of the more full-featured VNC clients, and you would expect so given its $25 price tag
VNSea,free and still in beta
WinAdmin, $8 for Windows Remote Desktop only
LogMeIn Ignition, $30, works with LogMeIn products only

I am a freelance writer, publication manager, and professional speaker on networking and communications topics. Written two books and countless magazine articles, with topics ranging all over networking, Internet applications and including practical tools and ways to be more productive. You can read more of my work over on strominator.com and webinformant.tv, both Web sites that I maintain.

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Anonymous 2 years ago

Wyse Pocket Cloud for iPhone is the best in my opinionhttp://www.wyse.com/products/software/pocketcloud/

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