Next, head over to your PC or Mac and download the corresponding desktop agent for your operating system. First, you’ll need to download the free iPad app from the iTunes Store and log in to it with a Parallels Account, which can conveniently be created right on the device itself. Getting started with Access is relatively easy. It does take some time to get used to the new gestures in Access, and not every app works perfectly, but overall the service provides a far better experience than that offered by standard remote connection applications. The end result is a full-screen-like experience on your iPad that makes many apps look and feel as if they were natively ported to iOS. So Access works some magic in the background and automatically and intelligently resizes, repositions, and modifies applications into a more touch-friendly form, a process that Parallels calls “applifing.” For some apps, this process is as simple as automatically resizing a window to fit the iPad’s screen resolution for others, it involves deeper changes, such as automatically enabling “ touch mode” in Word 2013 to make interface icons larger and easier to tap. The folks at Parallels recognize that a 9.7-inch (or smaller, for the iPad mini) screen and a touch interface is not an ideal way to interact with your potentially huge desktop and loads of apps that were built to be used via a mouse and a keyboard. So why should you pay Parallels a yearly fee (which is currently $80) to view your computer’s desktop from your iPad? Well, it’s because Access goes beyond simply mirroring your desktop. Remote access apps are nothing new, and there are frankly dozens of choices for Mac and Windows users, many of them free.
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