RDM+ for iPhone: Remote access service from SHAPE Services

SHAPE · 08-21-2007, 08:58 AM

Dear iPhone users!

SHAPE Services is glad to offer you a BETA version of new Web-service for your iPhone - RDM+.
You can use RDM+ absolutely free while it is in beta.

RDM+: Remote Desktop for Mobiles gives you complete access to your remote PC from anywhere.

RDM+ is a fast and secure remote access solution that offers you:
Remote Desktop, File Manager and System Control
Friendly, easy-to-use interface
Direct access through NAT and firewall
Secure connection, strong data encryption

Point your Safari browser on iPhone to:
www.iphone.rdmplus.com

Your comments and wishes are always welcome.
You can send us your feedback to betardm.iphone@shapeservices.com

Most active beta-testers will be awarded by free licences when beta finishes.

Support Team
SHAPE Services

Tinman · 08-21-2007, 11:07 AM

I am trying it now. I tried VNC a few weeks ago and it seems about the same speed.

Is this supposed to be faster than VNC? Any way to use the keyboard?

Thanks,
Mike

Tinman · 08-21-2007, 03:18 PM

OK I just tried Nate True's VNC:
http://cre.ations.net/creation/webvn...on-your-iphone

Unless I am missing something the VNC (from the link above) is actually a lot more usable.

Features in VNC that I can't seem to find in RDM+, or that seemed better via VNC:

1.) Speed: VNC is faster--especially due to window selection (see #3, below). And for the record I tested both via WiFi and EDGE.

2.) Keyboard: VNC allows text input, RDM+ does not (at least not that I could find).

3.) Choose window function: VNC lets me choose which window I want to work with, RDM+ does not. This is a VERY useful feature to have.

4.) Logging in: RDM+ requires me to enter a system-generated 8-digit "Computer number," my login name, and my password. That is a lot to remember for a device such as the iPhone--a device that doesn't have cut-and-paste. VNC only needs a password. (Yes, RDM+ is more secure, no question about that--but it's a pain to have to remember computer number.)

5.) Full Screen: VNC wins here too. I run my Windows desktop at 1680x1050. With VNC I can see the whole desktop. With RDM+ I can only see a portion of it (not the bottom) with no apparent way to scroll.

To me RDM+ would have to offer better speed and features than VNC in order to be worth it. Hopefully it will get better as time goes by. Definitely easier to work with via EDGE, as no port forwarding is needed.

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Mike

hoits2000 · 08-21-2007, 04:52 PM

Ill be trying this out when I get home. So to access my computer, I have to go to rdmplus.com, click the download link on top, and click the try beta version for desktop only? Then I can go to the website you gave on my iphone to utilize it? Since its beta, will the desktop version expire before the iphone beta? Or is the Desktop part just "free" anyway?

Thanks

Eric

Hawk · 08-21-2007, 05:13 PM

I need to test one of these out myself

pkells1 · 08-21-2007, 05:14 PM

i tried this on my computer at work, it was pretty cool because i hadn't ever seen anything like this in person (such an easy way to access a computer from another location). but the only realy problems i had with it were 1) very slow. and 2) it didn't display the entire screen (no start button, which was obviously a pain).
if these things were fixed it would be awesome.

Denis Perevalov · 08-22-2007, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by hoits2000

Ill be trying this out when I get home. So to access my computer, I have to go to rdmplus.com, click the download link on top, and click the try beta version for desktop only? Then I can go to the website you gave on my iphone to utilize it? Since its beta, will the desktop version expire before the iphone beta? Or is the Desktop part just "free" anyway?

Thanks

Eric

Yes, you should download and install beta version for desktop. Desktop version will not expire - it is free.

Denis Perevalov · 08-22-2007, 12:52 AM

Originally Posted by Tinman

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To me RDM+ would have to offer better speed and features than VNC in order to be worth it. Hopefully it will get better as time goes by. Definitely easier to work with via EDGE, as no port forwarding is needed.

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Mike

Mike, thank you very much. We'll try to fix the problems with full screen and keyboard at first.

Can you explain what is "Choose window function" in some more details?

Tinman · 08-22-2007, 03:10 AM

Originally Posted by Denis Perevalov

Mike, thank you very much. We'll try to fix the problems with full screen and keyboard at first.

Can you explain what is "Choose window function" in some more details?

Instead of going straight to full-screen there is an option to choose either full screen or any of the windows currently open on the remote PC. This saves time and bandwidth by letting me zoom right into the app I want to work on. I've been using VNC like this for a few hours now, to control iTunes playback, and it's pretty cool.

Here's where you choose either full-screen or any open window:

Here I have chosen the iTunes' window to control:

Zoomed in. Note the compression artifacts. This is a side-effect of the compression performed by VNC to save bandwidth (quite acceptable, IMO):

Getting ready to click "stop" (note the options, including Text input):

Getting ready to return to window choices:

Full-screen VNC view:

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Mike

Polina · 08-22-2007, 06:10 AM

Originally Posted by hoits2000

Ill be trying this out when I get home. So to access my computer, I have to go to rdmplus.com, click the download link on top, and click the try beta version for desktop only? Then I can go to the website you gave on my iphone to utilize it? Since its beta, will the desktop version expire before the iphone beta? Or is the Desktop part just "free" anyway?

Thanks

Eric

You're right the Desktop part is free. To get it you may go to rdmplus.com, click the download link on top, and then download and install the desktop for web-based access on your computer. Then go to iphone.rdmplus.com thru your iphone's Safari and connect to the computer.

Polina
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