GoToMyPC now includes Mac compatibility

After a daylong beta period, GoToMyPC is today substance a full Mac promulgation edition of the favourite far admittance software. The cheapest option for the code and service, which is titled "GoToMyPC for Mac," allows you to admittance digit another computer (Mac or PC) and costs US$19.95 per period after a 30 day liberated trial. The Mac edition requires Safari 3.0 or newer, or Firefox 2.0 or newer, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and either a PowerPC G4/G5 or an Intel supported Mac.

There are another somewhat kindred solutions, including Apple's Back to My Mac (if you intend intend it employed on your router), and LogMeIn. Back to my Mac exclusive entireness Mac to Mac, so if there is a PC in the mix you're discover of luck. LogMeIn Pro sells for $69.95 per assemblage for admittance to 1 PC or Mac, and higher priced versions earmark Mac admittance from an iPhone app. Our readers also point discover there is also a liberated edition that allows exclusive concealment sharing.

GoToMyPC mostly gets beatific reviews, and I would like it a aggregation better if the company would permit up on the obnoxious and unceasing broadcasting promotions for the software. The business has probably worked for them, though, because GoToMyPC is a big vender to both corporations and individuals.

GoToMyPC for Mac is acquirable now. Wouldn't it be nice if they would meet call it GoToMyMac?

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GoToMyPC now includes Mac compatibility

After a daylong beta period, GoToMyPC is today substance a flooded Mac release edition of the favourite far admittance software. The cheapest choice for the code and service, which is called "GoToMyPC for Mac," allows you to admittance digit another machine (Mac or PC) and costs US$19.95 per month after a 30 period free trial. The Mac edition requires Safari 3.0 or newer, or Firefox 2.0 or newer, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and either a PowerPC G4/G5 or an Intel supported Mac.

There are another somewhat kindred solutions, including Apple's Back to My Mac (if you get get it employed on your router), and LogMeIn. Back to my Mac only works Mac to Mac, so if there is a PC in the intermixture you're out of luck. LogMeIn Pro sells for $69.95 per assemblage for admittance to 1 PC or Mac, and higher priced versions allow Mac admittance from an iPhone app.

GoToMyPC mostly gets good reviews, and I would like it a aggregation better if the consort would permit up on the offensive and constant radio promotions for the software. The advertising has probably worked for them, though, because GoToMyPC is a big vender to both corporations and individuals.

GoToMyPC for Mac is available now. Wouldn't it be nice if they would meet call it GoToMyMac?

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TUAW readers: Help us tell Apple what you want in the next iPhone!

Apple's campus is a surreal place to be. You're enclosed by a wrap of buildings where whatever of the most modern subject innovation is feat on behind winking doors. That fervour aside, another enthusiastic abstract most existence on campus was existence able to dine at Café Mac. Café Mac is Apple's cafeteria/restaurant for employees. It's whatever of the prizewinning matter you'll ever verify and the café rivals whatever Google has. But I idolized Café Mac for more than the food. It is a place where you crapper foregather and mingle with people from every different departments, be that legal, marketing, IS&T, software, or hardware.

Now before I go some further, permit me land correct now that every azygos Apple employee I've ever met takes their NDAs very earnestly and no employee has ever revealed insider noesis or permit some secrets slip (to me anyway). I've remained iChat friends with a bunch of Apple employee's I've met from whatever very modify departments on different trips to campus. I crapper verify you, though Apple would never adjudge to existence influenced by sites same Engadget or TUAW, individuals at Apple do read those sites and do verify into kindness what they read on them.

Now, here's where you become in: I undergo there's been a ton of fervour most the close Apple iSlate, but let's not forget that, if time eld are some indication, the iPhone OS 4.0 module be previewed sometime this Spring with a plausible Summer release. I'm sure you every hit your hopes and dreams what you poverty the incoming iPhone and iPhone OS to include, so here's your chance to intend your voices heard – hopefully by some of the people on Apple's campus too.

I'm writing a program of features most what people poverty in the incoming iPhone and I requirement you to beam me emails detailing what you would same to wager in it. I'll hit digit iPhone article a hebdomad for the incoming month. Each article module care with a limited wished-for Atlantic of the iPhone: incoming week's article module care with the iPhone OS as a full (settings, home screen, search, generalized behavior, etc.). Week two's article module counterbalance iPhone hardware, while hebdomad three and quaternary module counterbalance the iPhone's built-in apps same Mail, Maps, Calendar, etc.

Until Friday, January 8, I'll be collecting your wishes and ideas for the incoming "general" iPhone OS. You hit until then to telecommunicate me your feedback, wants, mock-ups, and construct drawings. Don't be afraid to link to concepts you've seen at other places on the scheme either. And don't be afraid to verify features from the Palm Os or Android, too. If they hit something you same there's no reason Apple can't see from them, so by every means allow it if you conceive it would attain the iPhone better. I'll inform everything you guys verify me in an article and hopefully the boys in Cupertino module verify notice.

Only feedback dispatched to tuawiphone [at] me dot com module be considered, but gratify see liberated to hair discover your thoughts in the comments too. Also, gratify only beam me your "general OS" wish-lists now, or things could intend forfeited in my accumulation box if you beam your element wishes for articles down the line, etc. And, judging from the turn of telecommunicate I'll get, it would be a enthusiastic support if you could place your ideas in list form with a statement for each if necessary.

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Year-end reflections and predictions roundup

All our prognostications, anticipations, best-of lists and year-end reflections -- in digit accessible place.

Our selection iPhone games of 2009
The prototypal full assemblage of the App Store is reaching to a close, and so let's verify a look backwards at our selection games of 2009. Note that these aren't best-selling, most important, or even the prizewinning games... TUAW bloggers place their Apple predictions for 2010
It's the end of added calendar year, which crapper mean exclusive two things. First, every journal is feat to be posting lists of 2009 retrospectives, and second, there are feat to be a lot of posts... January 1 reflections on my selection things
January 1 is always a lowercase strange. A quiet instance after a period out, a instance to verify the tree down and deal with all the naif light pants that started discover so neatly applied and twine up a tangled... Other programme of import
Our Favorite Apps: Stuff that stayed on our phones in 2009 Apple nabs quaternary of Engadget's 10 gadgets of the decade How early iPhone predictions fared in the face of reality Two busted promises from AT&T and Apple as 2009 comes to a close

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Year-end reflections and predictions roundup

All our prognostications, anticipations, best-of lists and year-end reflections -- in one handy place.

Our selection iPhone games of 2009
The prototypal flooded assemblage of the App Store is reaching to a close, and so let's verify a look backwards at our selection games of 2009. Note that these aren't best-selling, most important, or even the prizewinning games... TUAW bloggers post their Apple predictions for 2010
It's the end of added calendar year, which can mean exclusive digit things. First, every journal is feat to be bill lists of 2009 retrospectives, and second, there are feat to be a lot of posts... January 1 reflections on my selection things
January 1 is ever a lowercase strange. A stilly instance after a night out, a instance to verify the tree downbound and care with every the naif reddened pants that started discover so neatly practical and twine up a tangled... Other programme of import
Our Favorite Apps: Stuff that stayed on our phones in 2009 Apple nabs quaternary of Engadget's 10 gadgets of the decade How primeval iPhone predictions fared in the face of reality Two busted promises from AT&T and Apple as 2009 comes to a close

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SSH and the case-sensitive username in Snow Leopard

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard introduced a lot of under-the-hood changes and whatever are not very obvious. One such change is to the marker requirements for logging in remotely via SSH.

In 10.5 logging in remotely via SSH was a pretty standard affair. In 10.6, however, section has been beefed up a taste to order case-sensitive login credentials. While this requirement has already been imposed on passwords, Snow Leopard now requires a case-sensitive individual study as well.

In another words, when logging in via SSH, Snow Leopard differentiates between the username "aron" and "Aron." This threw me for a loop for quite whatever instance and is another one of the numerous reasons I have held soured upgrading my Mac mini to 10.6.

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Ford to offer iTunes tagging in their cars

Just as 2009 was ending, author announced that they'll be substance a newborn choice in their cars for 2010: the knowledge to "tag" some songs you hap to hear on the broadcasting for after acquire in iTunes. It'll be an option, so it won't come accepted in the newborn Taurus you buy, but if you opt for the HD Radio, the stereo will hit a "tag" fix that will getting the information of some you're hearing, sync it to your connected iPod and then alter it up for acquire in iTunes the incoming instance you're at your computer. It sounds like a win-win for everybody: author gets to delude HD Radios, broadcasting stations intend more listener involvement, and Apple and the penalization companies intend your sales (presuming you complete the purchase).

It'd be pleasant to hit the strain automatically dispatched to iTunes (or modify transmitted via Bluetooth to your iPhone -- maybe modify via an official app -- incoming instance it happens to be nearby the car), but digit step at a time, I guess. Don't forget that you don't modify need this choice to evaluation some penalization you hap to hear: if you hit an iPhone, you crapper use Shazam's iPhone app to center in, tell you some the strain is, and spend it for acquire after if you want. It's a liberated download in iTunes, lots cheaper than a sort newborn car.

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