Comments on: Remotely Control Your Computer From Your Blackberry

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:54:19 +0000

The reason that PCMobilizr is a monthly subscription is because it’s a hosted service, the advantage of a hosted service is that you don’t need to know the ip address of the computer you want to connect to, it can even be hidden behind a firewall.

We have a one-time fee product called Mobile Desktop (a VNC and RDP client), which we have had available for a couple of years, PCMobilizr was developed based on this product to solve the problem that a lot of people don’t know their IP address, or are behind a firewall.

Soonr provides access to only files, it does not allow you to view the screen of your computer and control the mouse like PCMobilizr does.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:36:56 +0000

I’ve been able to remote control my computer from my Tmobile phone for like a year for free in mac os x with a program called SoonR, Also Leopard has awesome new easy to use feature (screen sharing) I don’t even need a monitor on the computer I’m screen sharing with to control it.

By: Rob D

Rob D — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:15:14 +0000

@Branden: TSMobiles™ is nice app…and I agree monthly fees stink…remember you still have to pay the Windoze licensing fee for Terminal Service to be able to use RDP.

By: thijs

thijs — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:21:19 +0000

logmein.com also has a mobile client… and it’s free too

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:53:04 +0000

@Braden: Great find! RDM+ even works with the iPhone.

By: G. H I S C O T T

G. H I S C O T T — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:21:03 +0000

Been there, done that on the treo with vnc… about three years ago.

Honestly, I don’t understand why the crackberry outsells the palm… I just don’t get it.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:08:38 +0000

ssh ftw

By: Braden

Braden — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:22:49 +0000

Or, you could try TSMobiles, which is a one-time fee and simply works with RDP (remote desktop) included in XP/2k3/Vista.

I’d never pay a monthly fee for something that should be accomplished by a standalone client app…

http://www.rdmplus.com/rdm/page.jsp?pr=tsm&p=tsm_index

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:58:56 +0000

That is pretty neat! And like you said perfect for them IT guys. I personally wouldn’t know what I would do if I couldn’t access and remotely do anything I want, to me and my buddy’s server from anywhere – via my laptop.