How To > Have a Remote Desktop on the iPhone
Ok, this is just damn cool so I needed to share. You can go to: LogMeIn.com and make an account which when configured properly lets you use your iPhone to connect to your home PC! I mean DAMN is it cool.
Simply download/install LogMeIn. Right click system tray icon and open the software. Go to the Preferences > click on Remote Control Settings > Set the default display type to HTML. If you don’t set it to HTML you won’t be able to use on the iPhone since it doesn’t support Java Applets yet.
The advantage of using LogMeIn instead of say VNC (which also works BTW) is that LogMeIn will let you it from any place without install. Where as VNC would only work on your local network.
Currently I am on the full trial which lets you print (honestly, why bother), and also has 256bit SSL which is nice… I will eventually cheap out and use free version. Still very bloody cool.. .and if i am patient enough I could actually browse my own site through my remote desktop since the iPhone doesn’t seem to like my scripts…
NOTE: From fixing computers for so long I can tell you that LogMeIn and any other similar software WILL show up as Spyware on all the popular scans. It does this so that you know somebody has remote access to your PC. If you read the descriptions it will tell you this, however some people freak out when they see it on a spyware list, so just realize that this is NOT spyware. Just be careful who you let have access to it since if you use some crappy password for that site and somebody knows your crappy passwords and then gets in they can control your PC. Common sense is the best weapon.
4 Comments to How To > Have a Remote Desktop on the iPhone
I just started using my iphone and log me in. I was wondering how you can control the remote pc keyboard and mouse features. I try to click on a particular program and access it but cannot. I am basically trying to do remote ordering through my work pc, this works fine through a laptop. but the iphone once on logmein has no keyboard or mouse capability, Any suggestions?
nope, i just turn on applet mode and use it for mouse browsing to close my email if i leave it open when i am away so the iphone will receive new messages instead of desktop pc. …
it’s a hack not really an exact solution for using a pc through a cell phone..
Does this work with the preview version of Logmein for Macs?
worked for the free version for pc. … so long as you can configure it to show you screenshots it will work.
10/06