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We don’t write too many
utility reviews here at Safari. There is a good reason for this. There are
so many different utilities coming out daily that we wouldn’t have time
to begin to be fair.
Every once in awhile though, something comes along (like ICQ) that just
has to have a mention. That something is a REVOLUTIONARY (even though its
been done before, never has it been done so well, or so SMALL)
product called REMOTE ANYTHING.
Its main competitor is the $99.00
product from Symantec called PC Anywhere, which is definitely a
fine product, one we’ve used here from several months before the
problems with it began, but there are times, when Goliath simply can’t
touch the lithe and accurate David. One of those times is now.
TWD Industries has created something
so small, so Full Featured that anyone who ever had need for FULL
CONTROL, REMOTE ACCESS would be foolish to overlook.
Ok, lets do a little hypothetical. Imagine you’re a user who needs to
help his mother in law and a friend with their computers at times. You COULD
buy the 100$ PC-Anywhere, with its 35 meg CD, but what if the friend lives
in another state? You can’t send the PROTECTED INSTALL
over the internet! You wouldn’t want to send your $100 CD through the
mail, maybe to lose forever. Isn’t there a better way? Heck yeah!
Imagine taking a simple floppy disk with a 40k program on it, or better
yet sending the 40k program through email, or ICQ. Yeah, you read right,
its NO TYPO. 40k as in KILOBYTES.
As in, we haven’t seen programs like this since the C64, Atari 800 and
Apple II days!
Wow. That’s all I could say when I downloaded and installed the CLIENT.
Which is a WHOPPING 240k (I’m being sarcastic) and the SERVER
(40k) on my remote server, and found ALL the features which
made PC Anywhere famous. Imagine. PC Anywhere features at 240k + 40k its
INSANE. What kind of black magic did twd-industries conjure up?! I’d
like to know so I could send it express mail to about 1,000 other
companies.
OK, you’re saying. A 240k Client, (which you put on YOUR
home computer) and a 40k Server which you put on the computer you want to
connect to. It’s got to have a crappy interface. It can’t be all that
great. We’ll you’d be wrong! It’s absolutely as good as PC Anywhere.
Period. I even used Remote-Anything to UNINSTALL
PC-Anywhere from my servers! Remember at the head of the article I told
you I had some problems with PC Anywhere? Well shortly after we upgraded
all our servers to SQL Server 7.0 and hooked up the SYSTEM DSN
so you guys could view our illustrious web site, PC Anywhere began to “not
work”. It would ONLY work RIGHT AFTER A REBOOT,
then within a day or less for some reason it wouldn’t ‘ANSWER’
the incoming call. What a pain. We had to reboot daily, because we could
only log in after a reboot. Now we’re using Remote-Anything. No
problems. WOW!
Goliath (Symantec) makes some great software, no doubt, but sometimes
Goliath just can’t deal with the ‘fast on their feet’ (240k Client +
40k Server) David (TWD-Industries). If you currently own, or
plan to buy PC Anywhere, you’d be crazy and maybe even reckless not to
give Remote Anything a try. |
