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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help! I bought my dad an iPad!

by Erica Sadun (Aug 16th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I wish I had never given my Dad that iPad. When he and my Mom were going on a driving trip, I asked if he wanted 3G service. He says "Sure", so I set it up. Now he's complaining about shelling out $30 a month to AT&T, so I'm telling him to cancel the service. Except he ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me remote-control my Mac mini from my iPad

by Erica Sadun (Apr 17th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, So, I bought the new iPad hoping it would replace my need for a Mac. It's great, but just not quite there. I am wanting to set up a high end Mac mini at home to run OSX on my iPad via remote access. There seems to be a lot of remote access apps. What do you think is the ...

LogMeIn enters cloud storage arena with Cubby

by Erica Sadun (Apr 17th, 2012)

Remote access giant LogMeIn is taking on Apple iCloud and DropBox with its latest move into the cloud storage arena. Cubby is now a website, a Mac server, and an iOS application. (Android and Windows apps are also available.) Like LogMeIn's recent JoinMe site and app, Cubby's focus remains on ...

LogMeIn Pro for Mac adds HD streaming

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 28th, 2012)

LogMeIn is great for controlling a computer remotely and a new update makes the service even better. LogMeIn Pro users on the Mac can now stream HD content over the internet to their iOS devices via a web browser or LogMeIn's free iOS app. The update with the new HD streaming feature is ...

LogMeIn goes freemium for iOS; Ignition users get more features

by Steven Sande (Dec 22nd, 2011)

Some changes are in store for users of the LogMeIn remote control application for iOS. The previous version, known as LogMeIn Ignition, is a popular way for iPhone or iPad owners to remotely control their Macs or PCs. Now the application has been released in a new free version called LogMeIn, ...

LogMeIn Ignition half-price sale -- and a TUAW giveaway

by Steven Sande (Aug 22nd, 2011)

LogMeIn's iOS app -- LogMeIn Ignition -- is a sweet way to connect your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to a Mac or PC running the LogMeIn desktop client. As part of a Back To School promotion, LogMeIn has put Ignition on sale at 50 percent off. With the normal price of $29.99 being cut in half, ...

Wyse PocketCloud aims to get your desktop anywhere you are

by Michael Rose (Jun 28th, 2011)

If the name Wyse sounds familiar, it's probably because the company has been doing remote access since the days of acoustic couplers and 300-baud modems. Founded in 1981, it has evolved from its early days of creating 'dumb terminals' to become an industry leader in virtual desktops, giving users ...

LogMeIn goes disk -- and saves my weekend

by Erica Sadun (Jun 21st, 2011)

Ages ago, we posted about LogMeIn's new file management and transfer capability. It wasn't until this weekend that it sunk in how utterly brilliant this feature is. Look at me. I'm a parent to a teenager. (Yes, there's proof.) When visiting Fort Collins over the weekend, disaster struck. I'd ...

join.me introduces mobile viewer for iPad

by Erica Sadun (Feb 2nd, 2011)

Today, join.me introduced their free iOS viewer, allowing users to participate in online meetings and screen sharing from their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. A bunch of us TUAWians spent time yesterday afternoon exploring join.me in its browser-based form. join.me is a new ...

iPad apps to the rescue

by Erica Sadun (Dec 2nd, 2010)

"Whenever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Whenever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'-I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise ...

Sharing screens with TeamViewer for iPad and Mac

by Erica Sadun (Sep 21st, 2010)

Here at TUAW, we love enthusiastic readers. They tell us what they like and what they don't like, and nothing could be more passionate than the recommendations for TeamViewer that appeared in the comments on a post I recently wrote about using iTeleport and LogMeIn to provide remote support. Given ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: From Earth to Romania

by Erica Sadun (Sep 1st, 2010)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro and a 4 year old MacBook Pro that I will be taking to Romania next month to give to my in-laws so we can video conference with them. Seeing as they are not very computer literate, I want to be able to perform remote control / screen sharing in case ...

Hands-on with iPad VNC clients

by Erica Sadun (May 3rd, 2010)

iTeleport lets you connect to your computer remotely using free software provided by iTeleport LLC When you look at VNC clients for the iPad, there are really two uses you have to take into account. First, can the software connect locally, allowing you to screen share your desktop computer? ...

Ask TUAW: DVD Sharing on an iMac, menubar calendar, network scanning, and more

by Mat Lu (Mar 22nd, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about using DVD Sharing on an iMac (instead of a MacBook Air), ignoring Software Updates, getting a drop-down calendar in the menubar, seeing Wi-Fi network channels, using iChat with other services, and ...

Beta Beat: LogMeIn Pro2 for Macintosh now in free public beta

by Steven Sande (Dec 18th, 2009)

LogMeIn, providers of the LogMeIn service for remote control of computers, has opened a public beta of LogMeIn Pro2 for Mac. The company currently provides LogMeIn Free for Mac, as well as LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone [US$29.99, iTunes Link], allowing Mac and iPhone users the ability to securely ...