TeamViewer Remote Desktop App
Wow, I just love some blogs out there. Among the ones that I check daily is LifeHacker. Yesterday they had a post titled, Five Best Remote Desktop Tools. Most of the tools that were listed weren’t compatible with Mac. Only two were: LogMeIn and TeamViewer. I tried both. Both are excellent, but in different ways.
LogMeIn would only really be useful to me if I wanted to access my computer from a remote location. Seeing as it’s a laptop, and I almost always have it with me, this app might not be as useful to me as TeamViewer. Although…they do have an iPod app in beta right now that would let you view your desktop through your account. LogMeIn has a number of different solutions that you could check out. It starts at LogMeIn Free and LogMeIn Pro. Other solutions include LogMeIn Rescue, LogMeIn Rescue+Mobile, LogMeIn Backup, LogMeIn IT Reach, or LogMeIn Hamachi.
Now, onto the tool that prompted me to share these two solutions – TeamViewer. Amazing. Not only is it Free (for non-commercial use), but it supports cross-platform. Just this morning I accessed a someone’s computer to help them set up Dreamweaver. I’m on a Mac, and he’s on a PC running Windows XP. It worked flawlessly. What’s even better is that I downloaded the app to run on my computer, but TeamViewer has a feature called Quick Support which allows others to let the program run without having to install anything. All the other person has to do is to run the Quick Support program, we exchange an ID and password necessary for linking and everything’s up in a few seconds. I was able to help him out and in one click, the connection was broken and neither system was open to being compromised. There is a commercial solution available as well. It can be used to share files, give a presentation, or as a remote desktop. Check it out.
No Tags
