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Yoics on Lifehacker

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:02:59 +0000

Lifehacker’s Kevin Purdy reviews the Yoics Google Gadget.

Google Gadget

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:48:17 +0000

The Yoics gadget transforms your web-mail into a central access panel for all of of your remote computers, folders and devices. Yoics makes network configuration and remote access as simple as instant messaging, no special knowlege required. So what are you waiting for? It’s free.

Overview

The Yoics Remote Access gadget adds the device list into Gmail (iGoogle and Google Desktop). Once installed you can access any of your Yoics configured computer, folder or devices, with a click of a mouse. Just click on device hyperlink and a new browser tab or window will be opened up with the device.

Getting started

To begin, you’ll need to have some Yoics configured devices. If you want to be able to remote desktop or remote access your computer’s folders, you can set it up for free by downloading Yoics for Windows or Yoics for Mac. Yoics is also available for Linux, the Drobo network attached storage product and network cameras for Lorex and Astak.

Gadget url

In order to add the Yoics Gadget to Gmail, you’ll first need to enable Google Labs.

Select “settigns”
Select “Labs”

Enable “Add any gadget by URL”

Select “Gadget”
Enter the following url: http://www.yoics.com/gadgets/YoicsBetaGadget.xml
Click “Add”

That’s it. You’ll see the Yoics gadget added. Simply enter in your Yoics user ID (or email address) and password.

Accessing your devices

Clicking on the blue Yoics icon will open up a new browser window or tab with your device.
To share a device, click on the share icon next to the device.
To see the access log of a device, just click on the log icon.
Clicking on the green Yoics icon will show your friends devices.

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Your remote desktop and Yoics

admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:43:23 +0000

Custom remote desktop setup

Yoics comes preconfigured with the free version of RealVNC. If you are interested in using the Personal Edition of RealVNC (supports Vista) or tightVNC, Yoics provides an easy setup for both of those as well.

With remote desktop, you gain the abilty to remote mange your computer from any web browser. In addition, you can share your desktop to easily give demonstrations or presentations, without the need to sign-up for an expensive paid for service.

Open desktop configuration

Bring up the remote desktop configuration window by selecting >> Services >> Desktop.

The desktop configuration menu allows you to customize your remote desktop configuration.

When using custom setup, this is where you enter the name you would like to call your remote desktop (default for the setup wizard is My Desktop)
Settings. Here you can either select to use the pre-configured FREE VNC version (note, does not work with VISTA), by selecting the check box.
VNC Options. If you are using the pre-configured FREE VNC version or one of the supported versions, clicking this will bring up the VNC configuration window.
Settings for preferred VNC service. Use these menus to use a version of VNC other than the pre-configured FREE VNC version.
Clicking the dialog will bring up a selection of the currently supported versions.
If the version of VNC that you are using is not on the supported list, don’t worry, chances are it will still work with Yoics. Just enter the service by name in this box.
Once you’ve set everything up, just select OK to complete configuration. Alternative select CANCEL if you simply want to exit with no changes.

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