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Five Best Remote Desktop Tools [Hive Five]
Lifehacker — ... . UltraVNC (Windows) [image] UltraVNC is an open-source, Windows-only remote desktop application. UltraVNC supports a hefty feature set, including text chat, file transfer support, and support for optional plug-ins. Although UltraVNC only runs on Windows, you can still access your computer from any operating system using your web browser. Now that you've seen the best, it's time to vote for your favorite: ...

Hive Five Winner for Best Remote Desktop Tool: LogMeIn [Hive Five Followup]
Lifehacker — ... . The default Windows Remote Desktop Connection client came in a close second, followed by the open-source VNC application UltraVNC .

Worst icon ever: Tech support is watching you
L.A. Times Tech Blog — I'm telling tales out of school a little bit with this, but I just can't keep quiet about it anymore. There's an icon in my office machine's system tray that's bothering me no end.  It's for a corporate tech support program called UltraVNC, which, according to its website, allows support ...

Free Software We're Most Thankful For [Thanksgiving]
Lifehacker — [image] Dear free software developers: Before we American nerds sit down to our turkey and mashed potatoes today, know that your creations are at the top of the list of things we're most thankful for. Whether you're an indie hacker putting out the occasional script or an employee at a giant internet company building out a webapp with millions of users or a voluntary coder contributing to an open source project, we salute you this Thanksgiving in gratitude for all the things your work enables us to do every day. Short of covering you in candied yam kisses and cranberry sauce hugs, please accept our hearty thanks ...

Unique method of home automation
Hack a Day — ... . Using photo resistors and your computer screen, you can drive as many relays or actuators as you want. [leevonk] is simply using changes in brightness on his computer screen to set off relays. This makes it easy for someone who has no programming knowledge and a tight budget to set up some automation. You could even do remote automation by connecting to your pc via VNC. Be careful taping things to your screen, wouldn’t want to damage it. ...

9 Amazing Software Mashups - Killer Free Apps that Work Better Together
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... instructions to create a name and password for this network.  After you're done setting up a new Hamachi network, join that network on the second computer using the Networking Menu. If the machines successfully connect, the name of the system will pop up in the Hamachi window with a green star next to it.  At this point, the two machines think they're connected on a local network, and you can browse shared folders, play Starcraft LAN games, etc.  UltraVNC  The other component to this combo is UltraVNC, an open source remote ...

Making Windows 7 Home Premium more Professional, or perhaps even the Ultimate Windows version
SuperSite Blog — ... turn this into a how-to article of sorts, but I'd like to get your feedback as well of course. Here's what I've gotten so far, listed in order of number of responses per solution: Network backup Cobian Backup GFI Backup Microsoft SyncToy Goodsync Allway Sync Carbonite (not free) Syncback SE CrashPlan Remote access Ultra VNC LogMeIn.com (free version) Gbridge ...