Yoics for Mac, installation & setup
Once you’ve loaded Yoics, your Mac is instantly transformed into your own personal web-accessible resource. Remote desktop into your machine from any web-connected browser, access any of your files or folders from anywhere, or even view your iSight camera. And with the powerful Now! proxy, you can make any TCP service into a web accessible server.
So if you’re ready, download away.
Installation
Installation is pretty easy, just download, unpack and put where ever you’d like – such as the Applications folder.
Yoics makes your Mac into your own personal web-server, and to do so use a custom flavor of Apache, so the first time you run Yoics expect to see this message.
Once it’s loaded, you’re Mac will be transformed into a virtual web-server, making it into a great web-resource for you, your friends and family.
Getting started
Once installation is complete, you’ll see the login box. If you already have a yoics account, just use those credentials to start the application.
If you are new to Yoics, just select the “Create New Account” right below the “login bar,” to bring up the new account creation dialog .
Once you’ve logged in, you’ll see the Yoics desktop. It works and operates a lot like an instant messaging application, so the next step is to populate your “buddy list” with your devices.
Remote desktop
Configuring remote desktop allows you to be able to remote command your Mac from any web browser, and it’s as easy to setup as 1-2-3.
1. Select Remote desktop
2. Give your machine a name
Then just click the check the box to finish setup.
3. Accessing your desktop
When you’re away from your machine, you can access your computer one of two ways, either through the desktop or via yoics.com. In either case, just double click the “name” you gave your desktop to start the viewer.
Once you’ve clicked on the desktop name, you’ll see the RealVNC logo (the viewer that we build in) and a dialog box asking if you approve the connection. Just hit OK.
That’s it. A window with your remote desktop should appear and you can use your keyboard and mouse, just as if you were right there in front of the machine.
Folder sharing
Sharing folder via Yoics is straight forward & once you’ve setup a folder via Yoics, you’ve transformed it into your own mini-Apache server, so not only can you remote access it from any browser, but you can customize it to your hearts content.
1. Select Folders
2. Select the folder & the style
Yoics provides three styles that you can setup your folders with:
- File Explorer: This looks much like a Finder file view
- Photo Galley: This is great for Photos and even auto-formats for the iPhone.
- Web Template: This is fully customizable, if you know HTML or PHP, go crazy.
iSight
Of course your iSight is available via Yoics as well. Just select the Web Cam button and configure your iSight for remote viewing. We’ll be adding a surveillance software solution soon, so stay tuned.
- Turn on iSight Camera: click this to enable remote viewing
- Port: TCP port to use with iSight (unless advanced user, leave as default)
- Alias: Give your camera a preferred name.
- Message: A caption to show up on the camera image.
- Ramdisk: location to store temporary data.
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your download link url has two %20 that need to be removed. these are spaces in your path name. there’s a space in the 2.5.029 directory name and a space in the file name after 2.5.029.
Once i removed these %20 in the url the file was able to download.
thanks. fixed.
any plans to make the mac webcam motion sensible ??? I mean like the windoze-version “Not only can you view it live from any browser, motion detected footage is stored on your hard disk, which you can browse at your leisure.”
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Yes, it’s in the works. We’re also going to convert the stored events to .mp4 files & even allow for an easy “upload to youTube” feature.
Love the program. Still learning about all he features, but things went ok while setting up. There is a little learning curve though. I set up a G-Mail account to view it through there. I am still working on getting that to work. It shows up in my GMail account, but nothing happens when I click on it.
After dropping my beloved I-Phone, replacement cost ($500) and poor service forced me to the Blackberry storm and Verizon. can I access my computer through the Storm and do you have any plans for a app for the blackberry?
Using Yoics Explorer to access a remote folder, I’m confused about how to download a whole folder. I can right-click and save-as a particular file, but not a folder? Thanks.
yes, that’s correct. That said, if you access the folder using the Yoics application (rather than yoics.com) you will also get the option to “folder connect” this will open up your folder in Finder, so you can just drag-drop what ever you’d like.
yoics.com works on the blackberry, so you should be able to directly access all of your ‘web friendly’ devices from there. if you have any problems setting up the gadget, feel free to email us at ’support [at]yoics.com
mac version keeps bombing just as I get to password entry for logging in, never get to enter it.. on 10.5.8 OSX
need alternative..
for using with ip9100a
I’m stuck. Hve not been able to connect with the camera o anything else. I’m prompted with the following:
To view this page, you must log in to area “index.html” on proxy4.yoics.net:30784. I enteres my email @ password without results. How doI proceed? I’m a Mac usar using Leopard.
Thanks