Cost as reviewed: FREE
Remember my earlier post about the Remote app and how it let’s me be lazy? Well here’s another great laziness app (maybe I should make a new category for lazy …). This simple app let’s you remote control the desktop of your Mac or Windows computer.
So far I’ve only been able to get this working on a mac, but it works really well an was relatively easy to set up. As shown in the screenshots, you need to have the IP address or DNS name of your computer and you can set up a password to use. Theoretically you should be able to connect to your computer via the Internet even when not at home, but I don’t have the networking know-how to set that up. Right now I’m just using the app over my home WiFi network.
The app has a keyboard for text entry but it doesn’t have special keys such as the Command key. For that, you need to purchase the full version of the app for $5.99, but for my laziness purposes, the lite version is just fine.
One tip for mac users- if you have a firewall turned on in your System Preferences, you’ll need to open the appropriate port in order for this to work. If you don’t know how to do that, Google is your friend! If you can’t get this to work on Windows, try the sister Remote Desktop app from Mocha which works great with Windows for me.
iPhone App-A-Day 