Ever wish you could control your iTunes from across the room? Sure, sometimes desktop and laptop computers come with a small little remote, but it can be a hard thing to keep track of. The things you always have handy are your devices running iOS, such as iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. These can control iTunes on a desktop computer or laptop with the Remote app.
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Using Your iOS Device as a Remote
By | December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
Provide Remote Desktop Support With GoToAssist
By | September 10, 2011 | 5 Comments
Everyone knows about Teamviewer – it’s one of the most popular remote support applications out there. However, it also has a rather high startup cost if you want to use it for professional purposes. With licensing prices ranging from $749 to around $3,000, this can be prohibitive if you’re just starting out. Thankfully, there is a rather great piece of software which is almost as good. GoToAssist by Citrix is a full-featured professional remote desktop support platform with far more flexible pricing: $9.95 for a 24-hour use pass, $69 per month, or $660 per year. This gives you the flexibility to potentially move over to Teamviewer when you have enough customers to justify it.
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How to Take A Remote Screenshots on Your Mac
By | May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
There are a lot of reasons why you might want to be able to make a remote screenshot of your Mac. Maybe, you let your children use your computer while you are away at work and you want to know what websites they are surfing. Maybe, you have a small business and you want to make sure that your employees are not in violation of your Internet usage policies. Maybe, you have hired some freelance talents and you do not want to be billed by the hour or for the time that freelancer chooses to spend checking their email or watching TV on Hulu. Either way, you can get the information that you need with remote screenshots. If you are ready to set up remote screen shot software, then this is the tutorial for you. With the help of a piece of software, aptly named Screenshots Remote, you can take regular screenshots of your system when you are not there, and then see them in a handy list for later use.
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How to Remotely Control KTorrent
By | February 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
KTorrent is KDE’s BitTorrent client that has a uniquely useful plugin allowing users to connect and add torrents remotely using a web browser. In a previous post, we gave you a taste of what Ktorrent can do. Today, you will learn how to start Ktorrent remotely, add torrents from URLs or file uploads, and make small settings changes to currently downloading files.
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Snippet: How to Print Files Remotely Using Dropbox
By | October 15, 2010 |
HP and other manufacturers are gearing up to release a set of new printers that will allow the user to remotely print document. If you are using Dropbox you can have this same functionality now.
Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration has written a simple VBS script that allows files uploaded to Dropbox to automatically print.
To set-up the remote printing function you must do the following
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How to Make Incremental Backups With Rsync
By | August 25, 2010 |
Backing up your information is very important to you, or at least it should be. One of my college professors once told me, “It is not a question of if your hard drive will crash; it is when your hard drive will crash.”
Rsync is a tool that allows you to keep two distinct directories in sync, either locally (two locations on the same machine, including attached devices) or remotely (local computer to server or even server to backup server). It is free and open source software and runs on Linux and most other Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
Furthermore, those who prefer not to get their fingers dirty on the command line can use Grsync, a graphical frontend for rsync, available in most Linux distribution repositories.
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How to Control Your Computer With Your Android Phone
By | August 13, 2010 |
In my last article, I covered how to control VLC media player with your Android phone. While that is great for manipulating VLC, it cannot actually control anything else on your computer. Other similar Android apps such as TunesRemote are great for controlling iTunes, but are again limited to that one function.
Sometimes you are sitting some distance away from your computer and you want to open a new window or browse the internet. This is where the apps RemoteDroid and Gmote come in!
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Turn Your iPhone/iPod Touch Into Remote Control For Your Computer
By | July 27, 2010 |
There’s an old saying about giving presentation in public that I like so much that goes: “The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.” This statement wants to say that speaking in front of many people is not easy.
Those who has presented in front of public knows too well that they could use any help they can get to make their presentation successful. Aside from the material and mental preparation, having a remote control will also improve the presentation quality.
But instead of buying a dedicated presentation remote control, you can turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into one. And it’s not just for presentation, but also for any other computing activity.
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How To Take Secure Remote Backups Using SSH
By | April 16, 2010 |
A couple of weeks back Damien posted an excellent tutorial on securing your internet connection using SSH. In his post, he explains what SSH is as well as the SSH Tunneling method that he uses to secure the internet traffic.
Today, I’ll be taking you through another tutorial that involves using SSH to take backups of your remote servers.
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How to Use ‘remote:/’ KIO and KNetAttach
By | August 31, 2009 |
In my post two weeks ago, I introduced you to KDE’s KIO slaves and gave you a brief overview of the services they offer. One of the KIO protocols is remote:/, which relies on KNetAttach to create virtual network folders. With it, you can create folders for the following services:
1. WebFolder (webdav)
2. FTP
3. Microsoft Windows network drive (using Samba)
4. Secure shell (ssh)
Each one has its slightly unique features and requirements, and in this post, you will learn about each one.
There are two ways to start KNetAttach. One, which we already discussed, is to go to remote:/ in Dolphin or Konqueror. Then, simply click on Add Network Folder. The other method is to press Alt-F2, type “knetattach” and press Enter.
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