Let’s imagine the situation: You have an Android tablet and you love to connect it to your big HDTV so you can watch your favorite movie (or play Angry Birds) in big screen. Right after you have set the movie playing, you sit back and enjoy your movie, only to find that the volume is too soft. So you move yourself off the couch and walk to the tablet to adjust the volume. You return to the couch and remembered that you forgot to turn on the subtitle, so you walk back again to enable it. Does that sound very troublesome for you? Well, if you have an Android phone (or another Android device), you can now get it to remote control your tablet and saves you the effort to walk to and forth the couch and the tablet.
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Tablet Remote: Remote Control Your Android Tablet With Your Android Phone
By | January 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
How to Remote Control Ubuntu From An Android Tablet
By | December 20, 2011 | 4 Comments
Few days ago, Laura discussed how you can use the Splashtop app to access your Windows/Mac remotely from an iOS device. The bad thing is, it only works on Windows and Mac (though the app is available for Android too). If you are using Linux, or more specifically, Ubuntu, the remote desktop client is already installed by default and you can easily turn it on to allow remote access from another device. Here’s how it works.
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Work Remotely On Windows/Mac From Your iOS Devices
By | December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment
This is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile. If we can use our iOS devices as remotes for desktop computers, and if we can run desktop computer screens remotely from another computer, why not run desktop computer screens remotely with an iOS device? Researching it, I found there are many apps claiming to do this, both free, paid, and with a subscription.
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How to Use the Built-in Windows Remote Assistance to Provide Virtual Support to Your Friends
By | October 10, 2011 | 4 Comments
Today, we are going to take a closer look at the inbuilt remote assistance offering that Windows has had since XP. This can be an invaluable tool if you want to be able to provide help to your friends or family over your home network, or over the Internet.
One thing to bear in mind is that you might have trouble with connections if your router is blocking port 3389. So keep in mind that you might need to forward that port to resolve connection difficulties. Other remote support software tends to be very clever in getting around firewall restrictions, so there’s always Teamviewer if you get stuck!
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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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Remote Web Desktop Lets You Control Your Android Phone From Desktop
By | May 24, 2011 | 2 Comments
There are no shortage of remote control apps in the Android market. These remote control apps allow you to send/receive SMS in your browser, receive Android notification on your desktop, control Windows 7, or even stream media to/from your devices. With Remote Web Desktop, you can now control your Android phone from your desktop browser.
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Remote Control Windows 7 With Your Android Phone
By | March 14, 2011 | 4 Comments
WIN Remote is an Android app that allows you to remote control your Windows 7 directly from your mobile. As compared to an earlier post on remote controlling your computer from Android, this app is much more polished and there are many features that are dedicated to Windows 7.
To be able to remote control Windows 7, we need to install both the mobile app and the desktop app. The desktop app will start the necessary services and listen for remote input while the mobile app allows you to enter, transmits and control your computer.
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How to Remote Control VLC With Your Android Phone
By | August 6, 2010 |
The best thing about living in 2010 and owning an Android phone is the incredible number of apps.
My mission over the past few months has been to find the best apps that I can use to control my PC with my phone. I have tested a number of free and paid apps and put together a great list of apps that makes the life of a couch potato that much easier.
Over the next few articles I will highlight some of the apps that have really made my life much easier.
Like most people my age, I love watching videos on my PC and my player of choice is of course the Swiss Army Knife of media players: VLC”.
VLC is a versatile application and there are a number of ways of controlling it from your phone. However, my preferred method has been the free app VLC Remote. It does the basic tasks of volume change, play/pause, forward and rewind easily and without any great difficulty setting up.
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TunesRemote: Remote Control iTunes With Your Android Phone
By | June 2, 2010 |
There are plenty of apps that allow you to remote control your iTunes from other computers, iPhone or even iPod Touch, but when it comes to Android, the choice is limited (as of now). TunesRemote is one of the few that give you the ability to control your iTunes from your Android phone. While it is not the best around, it is able to do its job well and enable you to travel around in the house and still be able to listen to (and control) your music.
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Remote Control Your Mac With Your iPhone/iPod Touch
By | February 9, 2010 |
We know that there are plenty of things that you can do with your iPhone/iPod Touch, and one of the coolest thing of all is to be able to remote control your Mac with your iPhone/iPod Touch. This gives you the convenience to move around your house (or laze in your bed), yet have access to your Mac in the other room. No, we are not talking about any iPhone apps that you have to paid $0.99 for. We are referring to iSofa, a native Mac app.
iSofa is a Mac application that turns your Mac into a Web server. You can then access the web server from your iPhone/iPod Touch and remote control your Mac from your iDevice. it makes use of the Mac inbuilt web sharing feature and the automator scripts to achieve the effect. The concept is simple, the implementation is simple and the user interface is great.
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