TeamViewer offers a remote desktop service that lets you control a computer over an internet connection. The company launched an Android app earlier this year which allows you to control a PC from a smartphone or tablet. At the time it was only available from the TeamViewer web site, but now you can download TeamViewer Free from the Android Market.

You’ll need to install TeamViewer on your computer in order to use the mobile app, but that’s free for non-commercial users as well.

The mobile app includes tools designed to let you navigate a keyboard-and-mouse operating system such as Windows, Mac, or desktop Linux using a touchscreen Android device. There’s an on-screen keyboard and buttons to emulate a left or right mouse click. The TeamViewer mobile client also supposed pinch-to-zoom to help you navigate on a small screen.

TeamViewer Free supports Google Android 1.6 and up.

via AppBrain

TeamViewer is remote desktop service that makes it easy to login to a desktop, Mac, or PC from another internet-connected computer. The company also offers mobile apps and has been beta testing an Android app since November. Today TeamViewer for Android dropped the beta label. You can download the app from the company’s web site.

The basic app is free for non-commercial users, but existing TeamViewer customers with business, Premium, or Corporate accounts can also use the app.

To login to a remote computer, just run TeamViewer on your PC and then fire up the mobile app and enter the ID and password for the computer you want to connect to. You can bring up an on-screen keyboard, simulate left and right mouse clicks, and manipulate your Windows, Mac or Linux desktop from your Android phone or tablet, using pinch-to-zoom and swiping gestures to navigate. You can also save profiles for computers you need to access regularly.

TeamViewer is available for Android 1.6 and up.

TeamViewer provides remote desktop software that lets you quickly and easily login to a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer from another computer. Earlier this year TeamViewer released an iPhone app that lets you control a computer from an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Now there’s an Android app as well.

Scan to download

TeamViewer for Android v6.0.1 is still technically a public beta, but it works quite well on my Nexus One. You just have to download it from the TeamViewer website, because it’s not available from the Android Market yet.

The controls are well suited for the small screen: You move from left to right across a screen by dragging left and right. Tap to click, and tap with two-fingers to double-click. Because it’s hard to hit a precise point with your fingertip, you don’t actually tap on the screen where you want to click. Instead you move the screen around so that the mouse cursor is pointing where you want to click, and then tap anywhere.

You can also pull up the tools menu to reboot your computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, or block remote user input.

The thing that surprised me most about the mobile app is that it’s almost fast enough to stream video from your PC to your phone in realtime. Sure, it won’t do 30 frames per second, but it certainly does more than 5. Unfortunately it doesn’t stream audio, so you’ll want to watch subtitled videos… or none at all.

Aside from using TeamViewer to login to a computer remotely to email yourself some files, help a friend diagnose a PC problem, or you know, do anything really useful, you could just use TeamViewer as a way to surf the web using a desktop browser… from your phone. It’s a pretty neat trick, although not something I’d want to do every day.

The TeamViewer Android app is available as a free download for now, although the company tends to offer free and Pro versions of its software, so a Pro version may be on the way.

You can check out some more screenshots as well as my hands-on video after the break.

thanks Lee!

Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes you need to access files or programs on your computer, but you don’t want to leave your cozy spot on the couch. That’s where remote desktop apps such as RemotePC Lite come in. RemotePC Lite is a free iPad app that allows you to control your computer and access files over a local network connection.

In order to use the app, you will have to sign up for a free account with RemotePC, run the server software on your Windows or OS X computer, and install the iPad app which will let you remote control your desktop computer.

Read the rest of this entry »

TeamViewer provides free and commercial applications that let you login to any Windows or Mac desktop from a remote computer. And now there’s a client for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The program works sort of like VNC, Remote Desktop, or LogMeIn. Basically you install TeamViewer on the computer want to be able to access remotely and then fire up the TeamViewer software from another machine to login.

It’s great for logging into your work PC from home, providing tech support for your mom, or performing maintenance on a server remotely. For that last one, you’ll probably want to spend some money on the pro version. But the free version has most of the features of TeamViewer Pro. You just can’t install it on a server operating system and you only get to install it on a single workstation.

The free version of the TeamViewer iPhone apps includes almost all the features in the paid version (which costs $99.99). There’s an on-screen keyboard and gesture support for remotely controlling the mouse cursor on your desktop. You can even simulate a right-click by tapping the screen with two fingers. You can also use familiar iPhone gestures such as pinching to zoom in and out.

TeamViewer for the iPhone lets you remotely reboot a computer and reconnect to it. And the iPhone app automatically decreases the screen resolution of your remote computer to fit more comfortably on your iPhone screen.

You can download the free and paid TeamViewer apps from the iTunes App Store.

More photos after the break.

via Download Squad

Read the rest of this entry »