There's one snag in this fairytale story, though, and that's the fact that GoToMyPC remains a subscription service. No longer will you have to worry about several versions of the same document floating around on various machines the original can be edited and cited with ease.
One obvious example is the ability to save time by dragging and dropping files from the remote PC to the client and vice versa to initiate file transfer.Īn extremely useful shared clipboard really makes it viable to work simultaneously between computers. In fact, GoToMyPC 6 includes many similarly thoughtful features. Most spectacular, though, is the PocketPC version of the software, which works at a speed and detail (full True Colour) that utterly belies the ARM processor sitting at the core of the PDA itself.
If you're lumbered with a less than brisk data line, there are welcome tweaks, such as dropping the colour depth to 256 and lowering the quality of the sound, which ensure that GoToMyPC remains for the most part entirely smooth. Both sound and video streaming are supported and with reasonable internet connection (2Mbit/s or above) the results are impressive. While you might assume that a browser-based solution might be in some way limiting, GoToMyPC's client is remarkably sophisticated. It's an elegant way of managing the concept, meaning that wherever you are, the miniscule 4MB client-side program is always available. While you still need a program lying dormant on your system, ready to leap into life when you assume control, the client side is handled using Java-based browser plug-ins.