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09/14/2007, 9:45am, EDT

Friday, September 14th

iRAPP merges Mac apps into Windows

Code Rebel has debuted with iRAPP 1.0, a program that lets PC owners run applications residing on their Mac systems. Users can choose to see fused, Mac-only or PC-only desktops, with the former two displaying both Mac OS X icons and the Menu Bar. Text and images can be copied between the two operating systems, and iRAPP also grants access to any peripherals that might be attached to a Mac. Users are further able to access multiple accounts on a single Mac, and multiple Macs hooked up to a network; these can be assigned to separate screens on multi-monitor PCs. On the PC side, Windows 2000, XP or Vista is required; Macs must be running Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher, installed on iMacs, Mac minis, MacBooks or Mac Pros. iRAPP costs $80.


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09/14, 10:29am, EDT
makes me cringe, shudder, wince, blink, cringe, wince, wince and finally ... laugh.
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tested it, it does more!
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09/14, 4:31pm, EDT
I tested the software, and guess what it allows multiple Windows machines to access one OSX system at the same time. It actually brings a terminal system to live with iRAPP on the OSX sys.

I was able to connect 3 PC's at the same time to my Mac Mini. I created 3 separate accounts on my Mac, and had no problems. Amazing. Hope they do a mac to mac and mac to PC solution too.
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seriously
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09/14, 6:55pm, EDT
what is that logo? was it done in macpaint?
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09/15, 3:39am, EDT
Prior to investing in this software (if these are features you are looking for) do a Google search for "VNC". Often freely available and often does the same thing.
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09/15, 10:14am, EDT
Usually I would agree with j55's post on similar products, but if you take a look at this, its not VNC. It's more of a "VNC with Coherence/Unity mode" for Windows - which is really kinda cool.

It also appears to actually give you multiple simultaneous login sessions under Mac OS X. You *could* do that with fast user switching, but this appears to make it completely transparent, and THATS cool.

Of course, I haven't even installed the software yet, so maybe my expectations are too high :P
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Does not work w/o Monitor

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04/02, 11:44am, EDT

If you have a Mac Pro or a Mac mini you must have a monitor connected to the MAC systems for iRAPP to work. I would say a huge con

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iRAPP Terminal Server 1.4

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06/06, 7:56am, EDT

Pretty cool http://bit.ly/XL9dv | they added RDP Protocol Support - which now allows WinAdmin to connect via iPhone, or Microsoft RDP Client ( Mac to Mac ) ...

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BEWARE

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07/07, 4:05am, EDT

I read an article on wikipedia about the iRapp designer that makes me very concerned. Since its on wikipedia I doubt that its incorrect. The designer once "created" a product called cherryOS that ran into legal issues for ripping off an open source product. Take a look for yourself and make your own decision. Who knows what he's up to now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CherryOS

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