Hardware and software manufacturers can easily make their network products remote accessible with zero-configuration for their customers by embedding the Yoics software into their platform. Yoics offers a small cross platform component to add remote accessibility to any network based product or software package.

Learn more about the Yoics Remote Access Component by downloading the Remote Acess Product Sheet.

In most cases, Yoics can be ported to a new platform within hours, or a few days if something new to our engineers. We support Windows, Mac, Linux, Embedded Linux with ease and have ported to many other embedded OS platforms. In many cases Yoics can run in as little as 50K bytes of memory. Contact us via phone or email to get started.

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Advanced Yoics configuration

The Yoics NOW proxy is an advanced feature of the Yoics desktop. With NOW, you make any networked service or device on your network into a internet remote accessible and shareable device, all without needing complex router configuration OR needing to introduce security vulnerabilities to your network.

Getting started

NOTE: The Yoics NOW proxy is recommended for ADVANCED users only. Although we don’t expect any horrific consequences of trying it out, we recommend you know a bit about networking before trying it out.

To bring up the NOW Proxy configuration, select
>> Services
>>>Now Proxy…

Configuration menu

1. Proxy list. This is a list of all devices that are enabled by Yoics on the computer you are curently using. The list includes both Proxy devices and standard configured Yoics devices.
   • Alias: This list the name that you’ve given the device.
   • Type: Shows what type of device (folder, VNC, etc.)
   • Address: Shows the internal (local) IP address that this device is configured for.
   • Port: Shows what TCP port that the device is operating on.
   • State: Shows the current state of the device.
     • Enabled: Active and available
     • Disabled: Configured but turned off (not available)
     • Reserved: A pre-configured Yoics device (e.g. folder) which cannot be modified from the Yoics Now menu.
2. Delete: You can select any non-reserved device from the list and delete it here. This will only delete it from Yoics.
3. Change: This brings up the change dialog, allowing you to change the values for the local IP address and the Port. This is typically used if your router recycled and your local IP values were reset.
4. Preview: Selecting a devcie on the list and clicking the Preview button, will bring up the browser and show you what you’ll see if you remote view the device.
5. Common name: This is where you enter a name for a new proxy device that you would like to configure.
6. Service type: This is where you select what type of device you are configuring.
   • HTTP: Select this if you are configuring something with a web-interface, such as a router, for remote access.
   • HTTPS: This is for something with a standard web-interface, over a secure connection.
   • TCP: This is used for any generic TCP communication protocol.
   • TELNET: This is for a Telnet server.
   • Subversion: This is to allow configuration to a Subversion server.
   • VNC: This is a pre-configured setting for VNC servers.
   • Printer: This is used to make a network printer remote accessible via Yoics.
   • RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol): This is a pre-configured setting for Microsoft Remote Desktop access to a machine (requires XP Pro, Vista Business or above on the server end).
   • TVersity: This is a pre-configured setting for the popular TVersity Media Server.
7. Select this box if the service that you are making accessible via Yoics is running on the same computer as Yoics.
8. If the service is NOT running on the same computer, enter the local IP address of the service OR device that you are making accessible via Yoics. Note: Yoics NOW proxy only works with devices or services on the same network as the computer running Yoics. The sub-network address range will be automatically loaded here.
9. Enter the port of that the service that you are making available uses. For any pre-configured Yoics setting, this will be automatically entered for you.
10. Once you’ve made all the entries, select “ADD” to add it to your proxy list.
11. Clicking OK will register the device you just configured with yoics.com
12. Cancel if you changed your mind about setting something up.

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Yoics offers an easy and FREE alternative to remotely access computer desktops, computer files, web cameras, IP cameras, network storage devices and just about any other network accessible product or service. If you are a consumer, device manufacturer or software publisher, Yoics has a product or solution for you. Our core consumer services are FREE to use, just sign up for an account. We will soon offer premium services for those that need our premium services.

Yoics For Windows (click for details) – remote access your Windows desktop, files, or web camera or share them with friends. Our public beta is going strong. Yoics currently runs on Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1. We are working on porting Yoics to Windows Vista x64 and expect it to be available soon.

Yoics For Mac (click for details) – remote access your Mac desktop or files or share them with friends. It’s still in Alpha but we’re about to release it for general use. Yoics runs on Mac OSX 10.4 and 10.5 for Intel and Power PC platforms.

Yoics for Embedded Products and Software Packages – hardware and software manufacturers can easily make their network products automatically configure themselves and allow for secure remote access by embedding the Yoics software into their platform. Yoics offers a small cross platform component to add remote accessibility and auto configuration to any network based product or software package.

The Auto configuration component allows your product to be installed and configured in an automatic way, without any installed software, and that is computable with all computing platforms including Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.  With Yoics Auto configuration your customers are up and running in a matter of seconds without costly support calls.

In most cases, Yoics can be ported to a new platform within hours. We support Windows, Mac, Linux, and Embedded Linux with ease and have ported to many other embedded OS platforms. In many cases Yoics can run in as little as 100K bytes of memory. Contact us via phone or email to get started.

Learn more about Yoics solutions available for individual users and hardware and software manufacturers.

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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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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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The Internet is all about easy access and sharing. Unfortunately even with high-speed broadband connectivity, your computers and networking equipment are hard to get to and isolated. Until now!

Download the latest release: 2.7.101 with enhanced device support & integrated music streaming.

Early releases are as such early & might have some issues.  If you have any problems, please post them on our board.

Download Most stable release: 2.6.802 with YouTube/Twitter June 19, 2009

Yoics is a powerful network solution that transforms any computer or network attached device instantly into an easily accessible and shareable internet resource. Featuring an intuitive user interface, remote access and sharing has just gotten as easy as using instant messaging. If you’ve had issues with Yoics conflicting with your anti-virus software, upgrade to this version.

Overview

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 setup 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.

If you are ready to go, download Yoics from the above link and off you go. If you have any problems, here are a couple of links to help you along the way.

• Yoics Installation for Windows
• Yoics Initial setup for Windows

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.

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 now features pre-configured UltranVNC server, so remotely managing computers with your keyboard and mouse is as easy as a double-mouse click. Our software also support multiple versions of VNC,  and we’ve pre-configured the free version to work with Yoics, so you can access remote machines without requiring complex virtual private network (VPN) or router configuration. If you’ve got your own preferred remote desktop program, no worries, Yoics is easily configured to work with the application of your choice. RealVNC personal edition, TightVNC , UltraVNC, and even Microsoft Remote Desktop are already drop-down menu choices.

Yoics surveillance

Have a webcam? With Yoics, you can instantly transform it into your own personal surveillance system. 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.  You can also have a daily summary created or even a daily time-lapse and if you have a YouTube account, all your video clips can be uploaded – automatically.  You can even have a Tweet automatically sent out everytime video is captured.

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 TVersity, 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

• Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2/SP3, Vista SP1
• Windows .NET Framework 2.0 (installed with Yoics if not already installed).
• 1GHz CPU
• 1GB memory
• 100MB 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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Yoics is the (almost) instant way to make just about anything you have connected to the Internet into your own personal web-site. Yoics Photos allows you to take any folder of pictures and make it viewable from any web-browser, even the one on your iPhone. Want to share them with friends? No problem, just like any web resource, Yoics photo folders are easy to share with any of your on-line friends.

Setup Wizard

The easiest way to configure your digital pictures for web access is through the setup wizard. The wizard will start the first time you run Yoics and is available anytime by going to >> Tools, Setup Wizard.

Just make sure the third option is selected, and the Wizard will automatically configure your computer for web photo viewing.

Yoics Manual Photo configuration

If you would like to select a particular folder for photo viewing (it can be a sub folder of My Pictures), you can easily do so through manual setup. Please go to the Manual Yoics Photo Folder configuration tutorial.

Accessing via the web

Go to yoics.com and login using your yoics credentials.

Once logged in:

1. On the left hand side is your device list, just look for the name of the Yoics Photo folder (default is My Pictures). Once you’ve located it, just click on it like you would any hyperlink.
2. Your Pictures will show up on the right hand side just as if they were on a Photo site, except in this case the Photo site is your very own computer.

iPhone Access

Accessing via the Desktop

Like all other Yoics devices, simply double-click on the device & a window with you Yoics Photo folder will be launched in a browser window.

WebDav access

In addition to viewing in browser mode, if you access via the Yoics desktop you can also choose to use our File Explorer mode, by right clicking on any Yoics folder and selecting the Open in File Explorer. The picture folder is opened up in the native operating system folder system allowing drag & drop access to/from the folder.

Sharing

All Yoics folders are shareable either through web viewing or webDav for full drag & drop access. Visit the Sharing tutorial to learn how. If you want to share access to your folder, simply right click any Yoics folder and select "Share with Friends" and simply add their email address or designated Yoics ID.

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TVersity

TVersity is a great Media Server that is available for free download , that transforms any Windows computer into a full fledged media server and allows playback via just about any networked device. Learn more at TVersity.com

How it works

• Add your home and internet media to TVersity
• Organize it, tag it and create playlists
• Access it from your TV and mobile devices

Attention: TVersity is free for HOME and NON-COMMERCIAL USE. Please contact the company for a commercial license.

Adding Yoics

When combined with Yoics, TVersity also becomes easily remote accessible, without requiring any complex network configuration (such as port forwarding on your router).

If you haven’t done so already, download and install Yoics for Windows .

Open Now Proxy configuration menu

Enter information

1. Give it a name (any name that you want)
   
2. Select TVersity, which will automatically configure Yoics for you.
3. Port 41952 (default) will be automatically selected. If you are using an alternative port, modify this port to that selection.
4. Select ADD
5. Select OK

Remote accessing

There are two ways to Internet access your TVersity Server, either using the Yoics desktop or by logging in to yoics.com. If you are using the desktop, just double click on the name of your TVersity server, and if you’ve logged in to yoics.com (via a browser on a computer or a handheld, like an iPhone) just simply click once, like you would with any hyperlink.

Once you’ve accessed TVersity server, you’ll see their familiar interface & you can operate that as usual.

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Yawcam , Yet Another Web Cam, is a nice program that is available for free download . Using the Yoics NOW! proxy built into the desktop, you can configure it for remote Internet viewing, without the need to configure your router for port forwarding.

Configure Yawcam for streaming

Open the Yoics NOW! configuration menu

Add a configuration for YawCam

1. Give it a name, e.g. YawCam
2. Select HTTP, since you will be viewing YawCam via a browser.
3. Port 8081 is the default port for YawCam’s streaming data. If you configured YawCam to use a different port, enter that here.
4. Select "Add."
5. Select "OK."

To Internet access your web-cam, either load the Yoics desktop onto the remote machine & double click on YawCam, or login to yoics.com and do the same.

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MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library or any simple watch folder over a local network or even the internet. You can access your music from all over the world using a simple web browser. The user interface lets you search for titles or browse your whole library by album, artist or genre. You can access your iTunes playlists or create new ones directly in MyTunesRSS.

Download MyTunesRSS

Internet access via Yoics

When combined with Yoics, MyTunesRSS becomes easily remote accessible, without requiring any complex network configuration (such as port forwarding on your router).

If you haven’t done so already, download and install Yoics for Windows.

Open Now Proxy configuration menu

Enter information

1. Give it a name (any name that you want)
   
2. Select HTTP, so that a browser will automatically load when you access it.
3. Enter Port 8080 the default setting for MyTunesRSS. If you changed this value, enter that value here.
4. Select ADD
5. Select OK

Remote accessing

There are two ways to Internet access your MyTunes RSS Server, either using the Yoics desktop or by logging in to yoics.com. If you are using the desktop, just double click on the name of your TVersity server, and if you’ve logged in to yoics.com (via a browser on a computer or a handheld, like an iPhone) just simply click once, like you would with any hyperlink.

Once you’ve accessed MyTunesRSS server, you’ll see their familiar interface & you can operate that as usual.

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