Free Remote Desktop For Imacs

If you are at school, work, at a friend's house, or on the other side of the Earth and you need to access your computer, you may want to setup a Remote Desktop system. This type of systems allow you to control your PC from other computers, letting you access all the files and the applications stored on it, and even the computers in the home LAN. Apple offers a Remote Desktop which starts at a price of $300, but another free alternative is out there on the Internet. Its name is VNC, Virtual Network Computing, a remote protocol used by many clients and servers also. After you start the application, you should set up a server password, and next time when you want to access your computer from outside the network, you will have to forward the port 5900 to the computer where the server is running. Your computer must be turned on and connected to the Internet.
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VNC, to work properly, needs a VNC server software on the computer you want to connect to and a client software on the machine you are connecting from. The most popular VNC clients are: OSXVNC, RealVNC, TightVNC and UltraVNC.


If you want a Mac VNC Client, I suggest Chicken of the VNC, which is free, and if you are not on your own Mac, it is a very comfortable way to connect to your computer. There is another version, RealVNC, which connects clients and servers for Linux and Windows too, and it also has a Java applet for the VNC clients, which can run on almost all computers. In this Java applet, you have to enter your IP adress and the password, and if you use it very often you can get a free domain name from DynDNS, or any other services like this one. If you have a dynamic IP, which changes at every modem/computer restart, you can download an update application, from the same website, the one which provides DynDNS. Remote Desktop doesn't work very good for users who don't keep the Mac laptops running all the time, but VNC is a great free solution for this connectivity at distance. This free remote desktop for imacs is used by many users, and it is preferred by many people because it has an easy to use and user-friendly structure.

Another alternative for the applications presented before is CoRD, which is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows servers which use the rdp protocol. CoRD is an easy to use application, fast, and free for users. Those who want to modify it are free to do it.You can try all of them, because they all of them are free remote desktop for iMacs , except the product from Apple, which costs around $300, and then choose the one which is best for your needs.