Anything, from anywhere.

Turn your Mac into a web-server & more, instantly.

OK, so you love your Mac, but wouldn’t it be great if it was a server too?  Or maybe you’ve got a Mac Book, no reason you shouldn’t be able to serve up files or photos to friends, even if you’re on-line at Starbucks right?

The latest version of Yoics for Mac is just about ready, but we’re so excited about it we decided to make it available as a public Alpha, so if you want to instantly transform your Mac into an Internet appliance now you can.

Because it’s Alpha, expect that there will be issues, but Tom our main-Mac-man, assures us that it’s pretty good, and that any feedback we get will get implemented ASAP.  If you do have some questions, feel free to comment here, post on the public Mac page on our forum , or you can send us an email at “macsupport [at] yoics [dot] com.”

Download the most recent pre-release here:

Overview

The Internet is all about easy access and sharing. Unfortunately even with high-speed broadband connectivity, your computers and networking equipment are hardly web friendly resources. Until now!

Yoics is a powerful network solution that transforms any computer or network attached device instantly into an easily accessible and shareable internet resource.

The Yoics desktop looks and works a lot like an instant messenger application, except instead of a device list, you get a list of devices . These devices can be yours or ones that have been shared to you. With the Yoics desktop you can make any data, service or even device on your network accessible to you from anywhere on the Internet.

During initial setup, you’ll have the option to use our setup wizard to auto configure your Mac for remote desktop, folder sharing, photo sharing and web-cam sharing.

Yoics also provides custom configuration, so that advanced users can configure just about any data, service or device to be accessible and shareable remotely.  We’ve got a separate page for advanced setup .

Yoics Web folders

Once you configure a folder with Yoics, it becomes instantly Internet accessible and shareable either via a web browser or a webDav folder.

The real neat thing about Yoics folders are that they are actually Apache servers on their own.  So if you’ve got some web-skills, select “web template” when you create your Yoics folders – and you can fully customize them to your hearts content.

Yoics Photos

File view is just one of the options that you have with Yoics Folders. If you have a folder with digital pictures, just configure it with Yoics Photos, and you instantly have a personal photo site, viewable and shareable across the internet.

Remote desktop

Sometimes accessing files or folders just isn’t enough, especially if you’re providing computer support for a less than savvy computer user that you know. Yoics features a pre-configured remote desktop server, so remotely managing computers with your keyboard and mouse is as easy as a double-mouse click.  So you can access remote machines without requiring complex virtual private network (VPN) or router configuration.

Yoics surveillance

Have an iSight or other webcam? With Yoics, now you can instantly “see” your camera from any browser, even the one on your iPhone. The motion detection/surveillance storage isn’t turned on yet for this Alpha version, but stay tuned, for your own personal web surveillance solution.

Yoics NOW proxy

Files and remote desktop are undoubtedly the two most popular things that people want access to. But lets face it, there are thousands of other network devices and services that would be awesome to have remote access into, and with Yoics NOW it’s immediately possible. Want to print to your network printer from vacation? No problem. Want to get to your router’s configuration screen without having to open a hole in your firewall? Easy. Whether it’s a dedicated network device or a TCP/IP service running on your machine, Yoics NOW allows you to transform it into a remote accessible and shareable internet resource.

Here you see MyTunesRSS , a media server, configured to work with Yoics.

iPhone access

At Yoics we’re big fans of the iPhone, so as you might imagine, most of our stuff works great when viewed from its browser.

System requirements

• PPC G4, G5 or Intel Core Duo processor
• ac OS X version 10.4.5 or later
• 512 MB RAM
• 80 MB HD space
• DSL or Cable High Speed networking at 384Kbps or higher
• Additional resources are required for systems sharing more than 5 active Yoics services.
• Systems sharing greater than 10 services will require premium computer systems and high speed network connections.

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