Even for single-shot connections, Screens can save credentials in the OS X Keychain, so you can avoid typing usernames and passwords every time without having to add a computer to the Screens Library. I don’t happen to work in an office environment where this option could be useful with multiple local machines, but I’ve been using it to quickly fix problems on my girlfriend’s MacBook Pro at home, and it worked as advertised.
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With a new sidebar on the right, you can also initiate single-shot connections to computers discovered nearby, which is handy if you want to connect to a machine without adding it as a screen with full settings and other options. The Screens Library may not be the most original design ever created for OS X, but it’s functional and makes it easy to distinguish computers at a glance: especially if you keep a different background on each machine and use large thumbnails, you’ll instantly know where you need to double-click to connect. Skeuomorphic backgrounds and textures are gone to leave room for a cleaner dashboard that displays large thumbnails for your configured remote computers this window can be resized, and the thumbnails will change accordingly. Version 3.0 of Screens for Mac is clearly inspired from its iOS 7 counterpart, which is a good change from the old app.
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A free update for existing Screens 2 customers, Screens 3 is available both on Edovia’s website and the Mac App Store at $34.99, but only the Mac App Store version can offer iCloud sync across devices because of this limitation, I recommend buying Screens from the Mac App Store. Screens 3 is Edovia’s latest update to their Mac client, originally released in 2011. I don’t need to access dozens of Macs remotely every day – I only log into my local MacBook Air (when I’m in bed or in another room) and my remote Mac mini – but I know that Screens for iOS has everything I need. The iOS app has changed quite a bit over the years: notably, with iOS 7 Edovia took the opportunity to completely redesign Screens with a cleaner UI and updated gestures, adding on-disconnect actions, hot corners, and trackpad mode with subsequent updates that continued to strike a good balance between feature additions and intuitiveness.
Since 2010, I’ve been using Edovia’s Screens for all my VNC needs: an elegant client with a polished interface and just the right amount of options, I’ve always been a fan of Edovia’s focus on elegance and simplicity combined with touch controls.
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