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Splashtop Remote

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ponyo

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http://www.splashtop.com/remote

Another cool program for both iOS and Android. It allows you to fully control your remote PC from your iPad, iPhone, Android phone and tablets. This will allow you to open your computer browser like IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc and watch free Hulu on your iOS or Android device. Since your computer is doing the actual browsing, you can fully use Flash on your iOS device like the iPad. Now my wife can watch her Korean drama and other Flash programming on her iPad. You can try the free program which limits you to 5 minute session to see if it works for you. Paid app is $2.99 which is worth it IMO.
 
iPad version is the best imo. I paid $3 last night and at $1 today, it's a no brainer. I watched Pac and Mosley fight last night on the iPad. 🙂 gogo Flash.
 
amdhunter said:
Is this just another RDP app?
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You could classify as one. But this only works on Wifi. But because of that it's fast. It's cheap too at $3 for the iPad version. Today it's $1 for the iPad and free for iPhone and iPod. Other similar programs are $15-30.

Android users wont have much use for this program other than streaming free Hulu and Netflix to their phone and tablet. But iOS users get full Flash on their device which patches the only flaw of iOS. This really works best on the iPad as the resolution fits the screen better. Having access to Hulu on the iPad without having to pay for Hulu Plus is worth $1 you pay the app today. Being able to play Flash videos from website is useful. You could even connect your iPad2 to your TV and watch Hulu for free. It's a cool app especially for the iPad.
 
The Android version of the app is on sale for $0.99 this Memorial weekend. I went ahead bought it to use with the Vibrant and Galaxy Tab. It's worth the buck to me not to have to keep fooling around with the hacked version of Flash for the free Hulu. Netflix isn't as important since that works on the Tab. It's also nice I can access and view my entire movie collection on my media drive. Mirage the Air Video client app for the Android is still too buggy and slow for HD movies.
 
I love this app. It's even better now since you can connect to your PC from anywhere, and not just your home wi-fi.
 
poofyhairguy said:
That is why I have been using Plex for all media streaming.
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Yeah I really would like Plex. I just don't want to pay $5. I have Plex installed on the Apple TV and I really like the interface. It plays most of my media but not all. Apple TV version is free so I can live with bugs. If the Android app was $2 or less I would buy it since nothing on the Android comes close. I know the difference is a cup of coffee but I'm weird like that.
 
ok i definitely got this today...i spent hours a few weeks ago trying out rdp and vnc apps and they were all either too expensive or worthless (jeebus but vnc can be slow)

grabbed splashtop for a buck today....great deal
 
Works fairly well. Although, I wish the help screen listed how to switch monitors. I had to look that up myself and there are different methods for the phone and tablets :\.

If anyone is curious, the menu (three finger tap) has a button to switch. On the iPad, you can shake the screen (horizontally when in landscape mode / vertically in portrait) and supposedly you can flick it, but I can't get that to work.
 
Sadly, multi-monitor support and the entire "advanced" menu (3 finger tap) is entirely missing from the android version. Oh well, it works.

Now...got to figure out how to control WoW from my tablet...
 
Hmm after using this more... does anyone know of a better client for iOS? Something that uses RDP perhaps? Splashtop is really slow if I use native resolution (1920x1200) on WiFi and obviously on 3G, and telling it to use a different resolution isn't that great, because Splashtop won't change the resolution back! While it isn't hard to do it manually (in my AMD Control Panel... found out the Windows one doesn't work for this), it is a bit of an annoyance. There was a new streamer software release that came out yesterday, so I'll have to see if that possibly fixes the problem.
 
Aikouka said:
Hmm after using this more... does anyone know of a better client for iOS? Something that uses RDP perhaps? Splashtop is really slow if I use native resolution (1920x1200) on WiFi and obviously on 3G, and telling it to use a different resolution isn't that great, because Splashtop won't change the resolution back! While it isn't hard to do it manually (in my AMD Control Panel... found out the Windows one doesn't work for this), it is a bit of an annoyance. There was a new streamer software release that came out yesterday, so I'll have to see if that possibly fixes the problem.
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I've never had an issue with Splashtop setting the resolution back to what it is natively.
 
dougp said:
I've never had an issue with Splashtop setting the resolution back to what it is natively.
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How do you exit your session? I haven't actually found something to forcefully exit excluding hitting the home button (exiting the app). I don't know if this causes a problem with it, but the one time I accidentally forgot to set the resolution, it threw my computer into 1024x768 and I had to go into the AMD Catalyst Control Center to turn it back :\.
 
Mine is working perfectly. Set res on tablet to native 1280x800. I can now access my pc at work with my Thunderbolt on 4G tethered to my transformer. Pretty cool. I just hit back or home on the tablet and it sets the res back to 25x16 on my pc.

Think I'm going to bring in my oldest computer to work so I can leave it on 24/7 without paying for electricity. Though I'm not sure how well that will work because those retards are still on a T1 1.5/1.5 line....
 
Splashtop is certainly nicer now that I switched to a nVidia card. The developers said that the reason why Remote Desktop kept switching my PC into a Windows Basic skin was a fault of the AMD drivers. It seemed odd, but ever since I switched, it hasn't done it once. Before, it would happen after maybe 5-15 seconds of connecting on any iOS device.
 
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