Accessing a Computer Remotely from your iPhone

SoonR is a web 2.0 application that gives you access to your computer from your iPhone.

Let's hope SoonR doesn't follow Festoon into oblivion because right now they are providing a very useful and somewhat amazing service.

To take advantage of this service you need to download a SoonR desktop agent and register using your email and phone number. There is nothing difficult about the registration sequence and the whole process takes less than 10 minutes.

At the end of it you will receive an SMS message containing a password protected link to the Desktop of your computer. During the configuration of the Desktop agent I chose to share a single directory named 'public' , though SoonR claims my information is secure and accessible only through 128 bit encryption. After logging in I was granted read access to the files in my public directory. Nice.

What's even better is that SoonR Desktop agent lets me run selected applications, including Skype from the iPhone. Since Skype to Skype calls are free, and even the Skype to land calls average only about 2¢ a minute, I am really looking forward to using this when travelling overseas.