“When Apple released Remote Desktop 2, I for one hoped they would finally add basic functionality like the capability to drag files from and to your desktop to and from a client machine. They didn’t. Instead, you had to follow a rather cumbersome methodology to copy files from a client to your console system. Version 3 of Remote Desktop fixes that, and a lot more. The new version also adds a number of impressive features,” IT Enquirer reports. “Apple still positions Remote Desktop as a management tool for educational and lab users, but the capabilities and features have been expanded and will now appeal to a much larger audience of administrators. Let’s just say that Remote Desktop 3 will appeal to all types of Mac users who deal with networks of Macs, and with mixed networks of Macs and PCs.
“The first new feature that got my attention is Remote Desktop 3’s Spotlight feature. This will obviously only work with Tiger systems, and this alone would justify an upgrade, because it is incredibly powerful,” IT Enquirer reports. “Remote Desktop 3 has become much more flexible and powerful in other areas as well. Take for example, the Control window. You can control a Remote Desktop 3 client just as you’ve always been able to. But there are a number of features added to that window. It all starts with three additional icons…”
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