iPad

LogMeIn (LMI) Ignition has been one of my favorite iPhone apps for quite some time. The iPhone version works fine on the iPad but the graphics quality not very good. Needless to say I was very happy to see a LMI press release announcing a full fledged iPad version of the product.

The app itself is elegant, fast and stable – it allows you to control any remote machine (mac/win/linux) that has a LMI client installed. While the price is a bit steep ($30) – the fact that the service is free of charge makes the LMI remote machine control look more attractive than gotomypc/Citrix Online ($20/mo) or Cisco’s PCNow/Webex ($10).

Finally, if you already have the iPhone version of LogMeIn, the iPad version should be free of charge (I need to test this statement though)…

In a press release about the iPad and its $29.99 app, LogMeIn said, “Now available in the iTunes App store, the latest update of LogMeIn Ignition includes full support for the Apple iPad, providing iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users with complete access to their office and home computers, including Windows-based PCs and Macs.”

See more about the product at the LMI’s site here.

Citrix has announced successful porting of their iPhone Citrix Receiver to the iPad platform. Apparently it works much better on the new platform as the screen size and keyboard size of the iPad allows for a more user friendly setup. This is an important development as the productivity features locked into your home or work PC/Mac can be easily unlocked by accessing the productivity machine with the Citrix thin client. Now, imagine possibilities that this opens up for Health Care, Education, Field Work, etc. I can bet that LogMeIn will be the next one to announce porting of their LogMeIn Ignition iPhone app to the iPad (I am a VERY happy user of the app – it manages remote control of your Mac/PC seamless on that tiny, tiny iPhone screen).

This also demonstrates that we’ll soon have a torrent of apps built for iPhone and ported onto iPad – while this was expected by the users and announced by Apple it’s nice to actually have app developers confirm the notion.