MyCopernic on the Go allows you to remotely search and access files on your home or office computer.

By subscribing to $ 9.95 per year service, you can find and view files on your PC from any remote devices - PCs, laptops, smart phones including the iPhone from Apple, Pre Palm, or BlackBerrys.

Service requires that either the Windows Desktop Search, or their own search for Copernic Desktop’s App be installed on the source computer. (Copernic offers three options for searching App - Free Edition home with basic features, $ 50 Pro version, and $ 60 Corporate Edition.)

To start, you set up a subscription to Copernic. Install and load MyCopernic connector on the original computer. From there, you open MyCopernic on website on the remote control device and log in to your account. And then your source computer is ready to search.

MyCopernic the road boasts that he can find almost any type of files - documents, images, e-mail attachment, contact or calendar item. You can search for files by name or category, and even run an advanced search to include parameters such as date and file size.

Preview function allows you to view files without downloading them. Dennis Dion, Copernic vice president of sales and marketing, described the email as a preview, allowing customers to browse mobile version of the document even without downloading the file. So you can get the necessary information (to view the photos, for example) without having to install any device. ”

But if you want to download and open the file that the application file must be installed on the remote device. For example, you need a music player to download and play MP3-file. 

one potential drawback: the service is connected directly to a computer to find files. This means that the source computer must be turned on and connected to the network when you run a search. Dion shows up it. “You literally search your computer in real time,” he said. “This means no data is copied to the server MyCopernic, which is more user-friendly privacy, and there is no need to spend time choosing the content to be synchronized and synchronization in advance.

Copernic has created a security measure for its new service: Your computer is secure Log-In, as well as the connections themselves are encrypted.

MyCopernic the way can be found on the website of Copernic and some mobile manufacturers such as BlackBerry App world.

How it works

I took MyCopernic Go back to the test to see how this lucky.

After installing and loading MyCopernic connector on my desktop at home, I opened the site MyCopernic on my IPod Touch and began to look for files.

I tried MyCopernic on the move with Windows Desktop Search. Before I could use the service, I had to make sure that Windows Search is indexing the files that I wanted to find.

In my Ipod Touch, I could find all the files, or narrow it down to such categories as e-mail, music or pictures. Each category offered me advanced search options. For email, I could connect to the topic and the names of the sender and recipient. For music, I can enter the song title, artist and album name.

MyCopernic the way, also searched the contents of my files. I was looking for a few lines of text that are not part of any file, but were in some of the content files and service and found them all.

Preview mode worked surprisingly well. I can view the contents of documents Word, Excel spreadsheets and PDF files. Unformatted They were, of course, but the data is read. I could view files, JPG, GIF and other images. I could even grab URL-addresses in Internet Explorer Favorites, and other web pages. Preview will not play music or video, though, for what you need to download the files to a remote device.

MyCopernic in the way we found all the files I threw at him, so that the service is performed well. The main drawback for me: I do not usually leave my desk is included when I leave the house, so that the service does not help me in this event.

And, of course, there are other applications I use to connect to the computer remotely. But I liked how I could easily and quickly find files on the desktop of my house of not more than IPod Touch.