You've always wanted to be able to connect to your home computer when you're out and about, but your lack of technical know-how has always been a barrier. Sure, you'd love to be able to browse your music and photos while waiting for your plane at the airport, but the mere mention of DNS, IP addresses, ports, and NAT makes your head spin. Lucky for you, Slink is here to make all of your dreams come true, and you don't have to learn a thing!
Slink is the easiest way to create secure connections to your home network, letting you access Finder, iTunes, iPhoto, and nearly any shared service remotely. No technical magic needed -- just install the Slink Agent on a Mac at home, then install the Slink app on the Mac that you want to access your home network with remotely. The rest takes care of itself!
There's more to Slink than meets the eye! For instance, you can use Slink to connect to multiple home networks at once -- so if you need to access something on your home network in order to address an issue on a friend's network, you can be connected to both at the same time! When you're connected, everything behaves as if your Mac was connected directly to your home network. In fact, you could even go through a power outage, and when your Mac reboots, Slink will be there, ready and waiting for you!
Just think of all of the benefits you'll enjoy with Slink -- file sharing, iPhoto, iTunes, print sharing, screen sharing, plus secure browsing that removes all of the worry of surfing on public WiFi hotspots!
Review Written by Derek Lee
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- Enjoy secure connections to your home network without any technical knowledge.
- Remotely utilize the shared services of your home network just as if you were sitting at your home PC.
- Connect to multiple home networks at once.
- Enjoy remote connectivity without leaving your home Mac logged in.
- Enjoy secure browsing even when using public WiFi hotspots.
- You can download and install a free trial of this software before purchasing
- Download available for: Mac OS X 10.5 and later
- Buy with BitsDuJour's promotional coupon code and get all this at a discounted price!
- After you purchase Slink it may be used indefinitely.
- Slink is licensed per computer, and not per user.
- Transfer of a license to another owned computer is allowed.
- License activation isn't required. what's this?
- Upgrades to future versions of the software will require additional payment. Installing a new version may overwrite the existing version and invalidate your license key.
- Support is provided for the lifetime of the product.
- 30 days return policy.
- Review the Full License details for downloading and installing this software.
- Prices do not necessarily include taxes, which will vary by country.
- Review what others have to say...
- “Slink is many products rolled into one - and seems to perform 100% of the time (even using connections as varied as free wi-fi through to 3G mobile broadband). After Ioads of fiddling with more manual type of remote access setups Slink was a breeze to not only to use but also to set up. Almost no technical skills are needed to get up and running. As well as your remote desktop and remote file-sharing you can also use your connection at home to protect your surfing data (if you are on an open wi-fi network) but you can also access location restricted services as if you were at home. Very handy for someone who travels around a lot and wants to surf securely as if they were at home.”- Ken Young
- “Olof made a GREAT app here for people to connect to their home networks via secure VPN. I've found this to be much quicker in terms of I/O device response time in comparison to more expensive applications from Citrix and the like. I particularly like the Bonjour-aware services. you can share files from an AFP/SMB server, connect and manage using ARD, screen sharing, or SSH to Terminal, Print to a local (on remote computer) or AirPort printer, connect to iPhoto libraries and more.”- Tim Mosbo
- “I've been using Slink for a little over a month now; Slink does everything it says it will-simply and well. And if that isn't enough, when I had a setup issue (which was not Slink's fault, but my own), the developer responded in a flash and had me up and running. Whether I need to remotely solve Mac problems for my family, stream my iTunes library while I'm on the go, or pick up a forgotten client file from my home system, Slink accommodates. Thanks for making my life a whole lot easier.”- Joe Kerper, j.kerper group
- “Thank you so much for posting this,.... this little piece of software is a true gem!!!! I do run a Mac mini Server at home solely as a media file server (itunes, photos and movies) and Slink let me access ALL my files when away from home. Especial when on the go with my 64GB MBA,.. makes me think of also selling the 17? MBP which is collecting dust since the arrival of the MacBook Air. Having always been a "full-spec" person and truely spoken never ever maxed out the possibilities of my equipment this time decided to went the other road: Reduce to the Max! Really digging into simplifying my computer life and Slink did a great job on this so far. I do have a subscription to MobileMe, but accessing my home network through Slink feels a lot more faster,..”- shootingstar64, macrumors.com forums
- “I first started using Slink a few weeks ago as a way of listening to the iTunes library on my home iMac at my new office: Slink sets up a secure link (hence the name) from your machine to another machine and its network, allowing you to access resources such as hard drives and printers as if they were on your local network. But as you can imagine, it's also nice for the Macbook Air. Of course, if you pay for MobileMe and can do things like Back to My Mac then Slink might not be all that useful. But personally I think it's great. Dead-simple to use, does what it says it will do without too much fuss, has a cool model for licensing. Recommended for anyone "on the go" who needs to access things back home (or wherever resources live).”- Ben Byrne, Byrne Creative
- “Slink sets up in a minute on both Macs. Preferences are minimal. Once set up there's not much to do except connect. You can choose to run Slink when you start up your Mac, run Slink as an app or from the Menubar. Network connection settings are kept to a minimum. Growl notification services are built in so your Mac can tell you wants happening when connecting, when disconnecting, or when a connection has failed. Slink installs on both Macs with ease, logging in and connecting is a couple of clicks, and what you can end up with is complete screen sharing of the home Mac from a remote Mac.”- Jeffrey Mincey, Mac360.com