Mac Power Users episode 75, remote access. Hello everyone. It's David Sparks along with Katie. Hi Katie.

Hey David. We're here today to talk about remote access and

when I was getting ready for this show I was talking to a couple people about it and

it was surprising to me how many people don't even really know what remote access is.

What it is really is it allows you to share your screen or I see somebody else's screen I guess is a better way to put it.

Remote access is the process of using a Mac or an iOS device to virtually be sitting at another chair.

You think that's a good way to put it?

That's a good way to put in, you know, and the dream of remote access is I can, you know, go home at night

and still be able to work on my work PC without spending late hours at the office,

or I can provide technical support to my family

members who are afar without having to sit on the phone with com and go, okay, go to the apple,

no, no, no, the apple thing up in the upper left, no, no, okay, come down. Do you see, you know, you can actually see their screen in an Iraq.

Yeah, I hate that, I hate that man. Just trying to explain it to him and, you know, the little one that looks like an apple with a bite at in the top left corner blah blah blah blah

blah it's really come a long way though and the idea for this show is to give an

overview and the the best tools for making it work because you know we're looking at people who want to

share between their Macs or people who want to share with a Windows PC and then you

add the whole iOS devices to the mix you've got the iPad and the iPhone and those are really great

remote access devices too. I mean one of the things I'm going to talk about in the show is how awesome it is to sit down

with my iPad and run my office PC through it. It's kind of neat. So...

Yeah, well we're going to do that. So, you know, remote access is actually pretty

important and if you haven't used it yet yet take a listen through the show so you can

figure out number one that it's really not that hard and number two give some

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