What does it mean to "access" your Mac? First of all, at the most basic level, it means to give you the means to find the item that you want. Suppose the "item you want" is a certain TextEdit document saved on your Mac's desktop at home. But at the moment, you are meeting with a client at a restaurant in another city. So first of all, to "access" the document, you need to be able to connect back to you Mac and find the file on your desktop.
Since you use iGet Mobile, you pull out your iPhone. On the Home screen, you tap the "My Mac" icon, and the phone's browser launches and connects to your Mac. With a few taps, you are logged in and navigate to your Desktop. The iGet Mobile web interface lists all the files on the Desktop.
Now you have "accessed" your Mac, but you still have to find the right document. Unfortunately, you've saved several versions with similar names, and the file format is TextEdit RTFD. The iPhone's Safari browser can't display RTFD files, but you need to read the documents to find the correct one.
With the iGet Mobile web interface, you can tap the "Convert to PDF" icon. This converts the item to the ubiquitous PDF format, which the iPhone and nearly any computer can display. After looking at a few, you find the right document.
This is the second aspect of "access" that iGet Mobile offers you: it converts the item to a form more appropriate for accessing via the web. This may mean converting the file format into a more standard one—RTFD to PDF, in this case. It could also mean creating a smaller version of a file: if this were a 50MB high-resolution Photoshop file, iGet could not only convert it to standard PNG format, but also scale the huge image down to a smaller size, making it possible to download quickly.
You pass the phone to your client, and she reads over the PDF version of your document and says she'd like like a copy of it. Now what? You can't just let her take your phone, and in any case she wants to edit her own copy of the document, not just read it.
iGet Mobile solves that problem, too: using the web interface, you enter her email address and tap Send via Email. The iGet Mobile server application, running on your Mac back at home, immediately compresses the document in a .zip file, and emails it directly from your Mac back at home to your client.
Just then the main course arrives, and the conversation moves on to other interesting topics.
Hopefully, you can think of many scenarios where having remote access to your Mac with these types of features would be useful. If so, proceed onto the next section to learn about how to set up your own personal iGet Mobile server.