Free App Lets Users Search their Desktop from iOS Device

X1 Mobile Search, an app that lets users look at a document or electronic mail when they are away from their computer, is straight off in stock free of charge.

The app, which had been priced at $19.99, allows users to perform "As You Type" searches on networked desktops running either Windows or Mac OS X from an iOS device.

Typical remote access apps have you tap into your screen background electronic computer, just in order to detect something there, you need to know where it's residing. Even so, you're forced to drill through your desktop's file structure to get what you want. X1 Mobile Search is the like having a remote variant of Windows search or Spotlight on your phone. Arsenic you type in your hunting terms, with each keystroke the app updates your search results on your phone operating room lozenge.

"X1's design eliminates the wasted time of clicking through hunt results, initiative and windup one document later another," observed Action Feldman, vice president for search and discovery technologies at IDC, in Framingham, Multitude. "Pulling together documents, attachments and email in one easy-to-use interface cuts down along time tired looking so that workers can get doing."

Features in the new update of X1 Mobil Search include:

Search for data in e-chain armor, attachments, documents and files in programs such atomic number 3 Microsoft Expectation, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, Mozilla Thunderbird, Zip Archives, Microsoft Office documents and PDFs.
Fast-American Samoa-you-type probing, including searching through e-mail service supported the from, to or subject lines.
View documents in their original formats, edit them on congenial apps and print and share documents and files on your mobile device, too as reply, forward and partake in e-mails.
Enterprise-grade certificate — x.509 PKI based two-factor authentication and RSA powered SSL/TLS — and advanced network stand, including Verizon/CDMA and AT&T/GSM.
AirPrint support and video mirroring, which allows projector presentations from an iPad 2 and the ability to share documents and presentations happening HDTVs and projectors.

"X1 Mobile Search allows access to your computer's files from anywhere, and will instantly discovery exactly what you'Re sounding for," Christopher Walton, X1's vice chairperson of products and scheme, aforesaid in a program line.

"With this release, we'Re making it easier for users to find and manipulate files, regardless of where they reside on the desktop, or what desktop solution they're using," atomic number 2 continuing. "Whether they use our X1 Professional Client, Windows Search Oregon Mac Limelight, X1 Mobile Search will now work for them."

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