iPhone and LogMeIn works great

[BoxMN]

FYI for you iPhone users. Not sure if this has been discussed here before, but I decided to try out LogMeIn app on iphone, and it works great - it let's you connect to your PC and use your PC just like you are sitting in front of the display and keyboard. It takes some getting used to, and I keep my res on my desktop super high, so its pretty small on the iphone default screen, but the zooming really works well and you really can do everything on your iphone that you can on the computer.

I haven't tried on 3G yet, just on wifi, so I am sure it will slow down a bit, but I was extremely pleased with it. Cost for app is a bit high at $30 but worth it to not have to carry around a laptop for those couple times where you NEED to access your PC (or Mac) for more than email.

Gets a thumbs up for me. So far, Navionics and LogMeIn are my top two apps, with the banking apps coming in next, and then just the standard email config apps, then weather apps

edit: oh yeah, Documents to Go is awesome, and allows you to have a synched folder(s) for files between your desktop and the iPhone that synchs with the regular synching process. Gets around the stooopid iPhone inability to simply stores files on the memory of phone.

I do like the iPhone better than I was expecting, and gotta say that I have yet to find a place that I don't get coverage, though did not have it last year in NoDak where I know I don't have ATT coverage.

[Scott K]

Thanks Box, I was thinking of getting Logmein, but didnt think it would be the greatest. Now I think I will get it!

[BoxMN]

The "funky" thing is that you move the screen around BEHIND a set mouse pointer/arrow in the middle of the iphone display. That is how you "move the mouse". Then a series of different type taps and double taps and slides does things like right click, select, copy, paste, etc.

There are buttons you can have on screen to do things like alt-tab, or keyboard, and any time you "click" in a text box or at a cursoer (i.e. Word) the alomst default keyboard will come up. Some of the normal iphone things, like auto Cap on first word are not in the LogMeIn keyboard, but I would be they will update it some time.

All in all, good for occassional or emergency or even "fun" use, but it takes a bit longer. You will like it I am pretty sure

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Logmein is free for a PC. Why does it cost for the iphone?

[BoxMN]

It is still free for the "client" PC, but you need the app to actually connect the iphone to that FREE PC, or however many PC's you have setup to be connected to.