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Trying to find both because the rest of the family is Windows-only and I for the most part use Macs. I've tried out the open source client and the one with the ads (don't know names off the top of my head) but neither are very speedy. I know it isn't the network either; it does take a bit to load my dual monitor setup over Screen Sharing on my MacBook but not this long!
Any suggestions?
I tried out Remote RDP lite and it's usable in a pinch but the full version would probably be a bit better.
Check out www.logmein.com ... you can sign up for the free version (LogMeIn Free), and add the client on their PC's, and your Mac.
They just released an app in the market named LogMeIn Ignition ... it is very good. I am sure once it leaves beta it will cost a little bit of money, but IMO it is well worth it. Also the clients can always be free. I have well over 400 clients in our companies account, and I can access all the computers from my Evo.
Sweet, I'll definitely try the LogMeIn Ignition beta when I get my EVO tomorrow... Did you have any trouble finding it in the market? I heard others did...
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Sweet, I'll definitely try the LogMeIn Ignition beta when I get my EVO tomorrow... Did you have any trouble finding it in the market? I heard others did...
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I did when I did toast's root method. I flashed his update rom, and it was back. The stock rom will have no problems finding it.
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Trying to find both because the rest of the family is Windows-only and I for the most part use Macs. I've tried out the open source client and the one with the ads (don't know names off the top of my head) but neither are very speedy. I know it isn't the network either; it does take a bit to load my dual monitor setup over Screen Sharing on my MacBook but not this long!
Any suggestions?
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PhoneMyPc is AMAZING, I use it constantly.
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PhoneMyPc is AMAZING, I use it constantly.
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Best app there is.
LogMeIn was SUPER janky for me.. hiccups, scrolling/zooming isn't smooth..
And refuse to pay for an app to do this, so havent tried that other RDP app.
If you are using standard Remote Desktop protocol with windows, the Remote RDP app in the Market is great. I have the pro version and it does everything I could ever want.
I JUST got my evo today and have not rooted yet.. I went to the market to download the Logmein app (cause i have used their desktop products for years and LOVE them)... and its not there... When you go to their website it says the beta is closed now...
So.. anyone know how i can pull the apk from my Magic?
UPDATE: for anyone in the same situation and you havent rooted yet (cause then titanium backup would be best)... appbrain SHOULD let you reinstall... Am going to try later.
I use XtraLogic's RDP app. Best and only app I have ever bought. Urr... you get the point.
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I'm trying Remote VNC Pro right now, it seems to be fine but so far i don't know if i can get encryption to work, it only supports either using the VNC server password or the user password for the desktop
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@ OP
No warez (sharing or requesting) allowed. Consider this a first warning.
@op phonemypc, vncviewer, and the $20 remote desktop app on the market are your best choices IMO
Hey i use to use this for adblocking on my phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741435
So i gave it a shot on my tf but no joy, so i was wondering if anyone has got a away of blocking ads in the browser not really fussed about ads in the apps
Thanks
Dolphin Browser has an adblock plugin that doesn't work very well. That's about it.
If you're rooted, just use AdFree, its free on the market. Just be sure to leave the symlink box unchecked and you should be good to go.
I use Ad-free from the market from dev big Tin Can or something on both my phone and now my TF it works well. It only works in portrait mode on the TF but it gets the job done the same, and best of all free on the market!
Thanks i've just had a look on the market but couln't find it anywhere :-\
Edit: just found it going to give it a try now thanks
was it just me or does adblock appear to not work anymore after 3.1 update?
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was it just me or does adblock appear to not work anymore after 3.1 update?
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No it still works.
Absolute Systems has this adblock feature too (using hosts). It blocks more sites than adfree, but the program costs some money. You can also manually edit the hosts file to point the site hosting ads to localhost or 127.0.0.1, which is what adfree and Absolute Systems are doing. Google will never add adblock features to the stock browser since they started their business with revenue from ads.
Firefox mobile has adblocker plus and it works amazingly well. Firefox doesn't support flash yet, but if you're doing general web browsing the trade-off with the adblock is well worth it
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Wow i guess i browse way too much xda and install too many custom things. I read the thread title as adb-lock and thought "wtf? Sonething new?"
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Rooted and using adfree, works nicely.
Have encountered a few banner locations displaying the couldn't be loaded bit, so either I need to restart to flush the dns cache or if that still happens, locate/edit the "page not found" default bit.
I'm also using Firefox beta 5.0 with Adblock plus. Works just like on the desktop. There was just an update to FF tonight, and I see that they fixed a couple of the little bugs.
Has anyone tried the Maxthon tablet browser yet? Is it me or is this the best browser out there? Let me know if anyone has any problems with this browser. So far i tried DolphinHD, Opera, Miren and the best so far for me is the Maxthon tablet browser.
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we should let you know because....your concerned? or did you develop this?
With their statment, "Make no mistake, with over 500 million downloads of its PC web browser Maxthon knows how to make your web sizzle" I would have thought that I'd have heard of this before.
i used maxthon way back in the days before explore had tabbed browsing. i think it used to be a shell for ie and had some extra security and scripts to improve it.
Odd, I always thought it was Chinese spyware.
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I don't know if it is now, but it was a recommended app way back by maximum pc. that along with ie pro... or something like that.
Well I've set the Market to install it once I'm back home so we'll see how it goes...
I've had my Xoom for a couple of weeks now and I've tried the built-in browser, Maxthon and Dolphin HD. To be honest, I think Maxthon pad is the most stable browser I have used so far. In fact, I have gone on to select it as my default browser.
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.....I smell fish.
No webm support
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I don't want to sound like an uninformed dummy here, but what is wrong with the default browser? All issues I've had with it have been site specific, which I credit to the site maintainers, not the browser. I simply avoid those sites on the Xoom.
Is the built-in browser more strict on standards-compliance? Is it not feature-rich enough? What exactly is the problem with it?
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I don't want to sound like an uninformed dummy here, but what is wrong with the default browser? All issues I've had with it have been site specific, which I credit to the site maintainers, not the browser. I simply avoid those sites on the Xoom.
Is the built-in browser more strict on standards-compliance? Is it not feature-rich enough? What exactly is the problem with it?
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There is nothing "wrong" with it necessarily, but some browsers render faster, or more cleanly than the stock one.
I use opera, and maxthon
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I'v been using MX for several years on my laptop. U konw why?
I could sync my favorates with the server.
Since MyIE2
I used Maxthon way back when it was MyIE2. I like it. I loved the mouse gestures, and it was just easier than IE. I continued using it after it became Maxthon for a while, but then I went Linux only for a few years and used FireFox and Opera. Now I'm strictly Google Chrome, but I think I will give it a look on the Xoom.
Using maxthon on xoom right now - DEFINITELY faster. I'm pleased.
i have been looking for a way to get internet explorer web sites to work on my tablet but have had no luck as of yet could someone help me out or is there something to do. tried the about:debug did not work. please help
thanks in advance
What tablet do you have and which version of android are you running? If your running ICS or your device has support for ICS you can try Chrome on your tablet.
I have the ZTE optik v55 running 3.2 Android
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well after doing some research on the tablet....there are some rumors going around a OTA update for the Optik that's supposed to have android 4.0. But there's nothing solid. The other alternatives you could use are like Dolphin Browser HD and Opera Mini Web Browser. If you go with Dolphin be sure to set it as desktop so it will give you normal full sites instead of the mobile version of sites.
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well after doing some research on the tablet....there are some rumors going around a OTA update for the Optik that's supposed to have android 4.0. But there's nothing solid. The other alternatives you could use are like Dolphin Browser HD and Opera Mini Web Browser. If you go with Dolphin be sure to set it as desktop so it will give you normal full sites instead of the mobile version of sites.
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Use Opera HD instead of Dolphin and set it to desktop. This is as close as you will get to proper rendering. However, the site may play nicer with firefox set to desktop user agent.
I think ie is does'nt exist on android device CMIIW ....
You can try chrome if your tablet running ICS..
Thanks Opera works like a charm, thanks all of you for the information
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What do you need Internet Explorer?
It's very lazy browser i think.
Maybe you should try Dolphin Browser or Opera(Mobile or Mini-i think Mini is better,light and faster)
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What do you need Internet Explorer?
It's very lazy browser i think.
Maybe you should try Dolphin Browser or Opera(Mobile or Mini-i think Mini is better,light and faster)
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That's all well and good, but I also could do with IE on Android because some sites I need to access are specifically written for IE. While I can fudge the Agent string to get round the checks the website does, once in, it doesn't render correctly and you can't use the site.
I wish IE was also available because the default browser is clunky. I've heard Dolphon Browser is good, anybody have an opinion on Dolphin?
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hello! i have volar vlr t702 and running android 4.0. i hate internet explorer but i must use ie for my job. i tried chrome, opera, dolphin but anyone didn't work on my job site. how can i use ie on my tablet? please help.
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I wish IE was also available because the default browser is clunky. I've heard Dolphon Browser is good, anybody have an opinion on Dolphin?
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Dolphin browser is the best android browser avaliable, in my opinion.
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hello! i have volar vlr t702 and running android 4.0. i hate internet explorer but i must use ie for my job. i tried chrome, opera, dolphin but anyone didn't work on my job site. how can i use ie on my tablet? please help.
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That is a compatibility problem of poor web code of the website you're trying to access, not the browser.
IE is developed by Microsoft and since they have Windows Mobile I doubt they're going to port IE to android. That being said, there are probably some unofficiall unstable ports and google is your friend there, but it's surely not worth the hassle.
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I wish IE was also available because the default browser is clunky. I've heard Dolphon Browser is good, anybody have an opinion on Dolphin?
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Dolphin is great in every way, except that it doesn't support flash in it's pages, like Firefox does (and in the case of IE compatibility; it won't be able to render IE specific ActiveX plugins). If anyone finds a way to emulate or run IE under Android; I'll be most interested to know what's involved.
Someone on another forum post somewhere, mentioned that IE mobile (assuming it works for the sites in question); could potentially be ported or emulated with a Windows Mobile emulator? AFAIK: nobody has done this yet (probably fearing reprisal from Microsoft). But if it was done in such a way that if you owned a WM device; you could pull the binary off the existing phone, and run it in an emulated form under Android (effectively avoiding some of the reverse engineering contract clauses, and having the owners assume responsibility for not distributing copied images (already in the MS EULA)...then it might be sufficiently grey area that you could have a personal copy running (be it rather wastefully)?
opera renders sites good like pc browser
i think it is the closest browser to pc's
Hi,
So I trust the AOSP browser but it's not the greatest security wise, It only updates vulnerabilities with the system update which manufacturers don't always do .
Chrome is updating regularly but I don't like the fact that it's googles, so lets say that I don't trust it.
Firefox sounds great but it crashes on my system (different thread).
there is also some UA browser from china but as far as i understand it has problems both in security and in trustworthiness (it constantly sends your info to some server).
Umm I remember encountering some more but they were all basically forks of those primary three .
anyone knows anything?
thank you.
I would suggest Private Browser by Keepsolid Inc. It may be a branch of one of your aforementioned browsers, but it works. I dunno, it receives constant updates, and it protects everything you do from what I have experienced. Try it out...
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keepsolid.privatebrowser
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thank you!
I may have forgot to add the word "free".
A free browser.
anyway, I checked it out and I'm not sure, it looks like a chrome version. am i wrong?
I'll admit, I'm a bit wary since this looks like a small company/unknown product. not much talk about them.
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thank you!
I may have forgot to add the word "free".
A free browser.
anyway, I checked it out and I'm not sure, it looks like a chrome version. am i wrong?
I'll admit, I'm a bit wary since this looks like a small company/unknown product. not much talk about them.
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Well, I haven't used it. You might try using a low end private browser. Just search "Free Private Browser" in play store... You should get some results
thx
Puffin Browser or Dolphin Browser. I used to use Dolphin but it got buggy. I don't know how it is now, but I've heard they added Flash support. Puffin browser has Flash support and renders sites well. It also has gaming controls and a touchpad mouse control.
Firefox has the additional benefit that the uBlock Origin extension works. The Chrome version only works with desktop, not mobile
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Puffin Browser or Dolphin Browser. I used to use Dolphin but it got buggy. I don't know how it is now, but I've heard they added Flash support. Puffin browser has Flash support and renders sites well. It also has gaming controls and a touchpad mouse control.
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thx for the response. am i to understand correctly that puffin browser direct all of your traffic through its servers?
also, do you have any particular reason to trust Dolphin or is it just general experience? (I vaguely remember the company was spying after user urls, or something similar, some years back ).
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thx for the response. am i to understand correctly that puffin browser direct all of your traffic through its servers?
also, do you have any particular reason to trust Dolphin or is it just general experience? (I vaguely remember the company was spying after user urls, or something similar, some years back ).
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I don't know if Puffin directs traffic through it servers, but I do know that Opera Mini does.
Opera Mini is also a good browser. I'm on Tracfone (on my main phone) and I get 1200mb per year. Divided up, its 100mb per month. To add data it cost about $33.33 per gig. It's highly overpriced.
As for Dolphin, back a few years ago I was looking for a browser that would render desktop sites like on a desktop. Dolphin did better than Firefox for me at the time so I used it. It also had some add-ons that I used as well and the features were nice.
Chrome was to slow and buggy to use, Firefox was a little slow, and I didn't like Opera (not talking about the mini version which I liked). Opera got rid of bookmarks (which I more frequently used) and just overall kind of sucked.
If you're wanting privacy, you're best to stay away from using Tor ( the government recently developed a new system for tracking Tor users). I wouldn't recommend proxies either (as some are malicious and want to snoop). Use a VPN instead, there's many to choose from and some may be more private than others. Some are free and some don't require an app to use (as they use android's built-in VPN settings). Be sure to do your research first.
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I don't know if Puffin directs traffic through it servers, but I do know that Opera Mini does.
Opera Mini is also a good browser. I'm on Tracfone (on my main phone) and I get 1200mb per year. Divided up, its 100mb per month. To add data it cost about $33.33 per gig. It's highly overpriced.
As for Dolphin, back a few years ago I was looking for a browser that would render desktop sites like on a desktop. Dolphin did better than Firefox for me at the time so I used it. It also had some add-ons that I used as well and the features were nice.
Chrome was to slow and buggy to use, Firefox was a little slow, and I didn't like Opera (not talking about the mini version which I liked). Opera got rid of bookmarks (which I more frequently used) and just overall kind of sucked.
If you're wanting privacy, you're best to stay away from using Tor ( the government recently developed a new system for tracking Tor users). I wouldn't recommend proxies either (as some are malicious and want to snoop). Use a VPN instead, there's many to choose from and some may be more private than others. Some are free and some don't require an app to use (as they use android's built-in VPN settings). Be sure to do your research first.
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Thank you, that is an interesting info.
In terms of privacy, don't you worry about Operas handling of your information?
About TOR I don't know if I wanted to use it but I am a little interested in the subject, what recent government technique are you referring to? I did a google search but I'm not sure what is new...
And you right, I do want privacy, but involving a third party like a VPN... Unless I'm on a public wifi... how smart is that? I thought about the old fashioned device-trusty browser-my router/provider antena -my isp- the requested website model...
Anyway at the moment I need a secure browser.
oh and thx.
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Firefox has the additional benefit that the uBlock Origin extension works. The Chrome version only works with desktop, not mobile
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yeah I wanted them, but unfortunately it always crashes on me.
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Thank you, that is an interesting info.
In terms of privacy, don't you worry about Operas handling of your information?
About TOR I don't know if I wanted to use it but I am a little interested in the subject, what recent government technique are you referring to? I did a google search but I'm not sure what is new...
And you right, I do want privacy, but involving a third party like a VPN... Unless I'm on a public wifi... how smart is that? I thought about the old fashioned device-trusty browser-my router/provider antena -my isp- the requested website model...
Anyway at the moment I need a secure browser.
oh and thx.
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I don't worry much about Opera Mini. It's really my only option for Tracfone, since the data is so expensive. Basically I can make 100mb last more like 1gb. However some sites break, and any video I watch I watch usually in 144p.
As for Tor, it can be exploited in a number of ways. One being malicious nodes. Another is by your mouse movements. https://www.hackread.com/tracking-tor-users-with-mouse-movements/
If you really want privacy, the best way to get it is to go completely off grid. Otherwise just abandon using sites that require sign in or accounts, cookies, plugins or other scripts, and use a VPN from a public place on a computer with an amnesic operating system like Tails.
Ok, cool, thank you.
At the moment I don't need to worry about data usage (wifi), but if ever the need arises, I'll keep your idea in mind.
As for the privacy issue, well, I think I'll stave off for a while with my disappearance from the world, at least until I'll learn to properly hunt for the most dangerous game...
But yeah, I get your point.
Anyway, thanks man, , and if anyone else has any more suggestions for secure trusted browsers, that would be great.