Gordon's Tech

For several weeks I was frustrated that LogMeIn didn't work on my iMac i5 running 10.6.2. I couldn't find any explanation. I made do...

I’ve had some luck so far with MobileMe, but this time I ran into a complete fail. It wasn’t completely unexpected. I’ve been using LogMeI...

This is a bit complex to describe fully, but I hope these hints will be of use. Briefly, I wanted to be able to establish a video chat con...

How do you restart a remote machine, like an XP controlled by remote desktop or a Windows 2003 server running terminal services? At least wi...

I hope this is what I asked for some time ago -- a version of Copilot that will let me control my mother's machine whenever I want, with...

Via Gruber, I learn that AT&T hotspots (including Starbucks) have finally launched their long promised iPhone access service with a tedi...

Apple's MobileMe is monumentally uninteresting -- less useful than .Mac. Actually, it's worse than that. It's inferior to Google...

When Leopard came out, I was very excited about the screen sharing feature . I thought I'd buy the OS in Jan 2008 for that feature alone...

There's not much I envy from the Windows world, but Microsoft's (was it a Citrix offshoot) superb remote desktop protocol is on the ...

iShowU is a great low price OS X screen recording tool. I don't know of any high quality low cost tools for XP though. Until Jon Udell ...

XP is supposed to have built-in screen sharing controls, but I guess they don't work too well. Here's an important vote for CrossLoo...

I thought they'd semi-officially abandoned this client. Apparently not: Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta) - The Unoffi...

What the heck?! I've been ranting about the crummy remote control solutions [1] for OS X desktops for years -- to no avail (of course, ...

I use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client to control XP machines at home and work and to connect to Windows Terminal Servers (Win 2003). T...

Ok, so an out-of-cycle release of Safari is impressive, and a Windows version is astounding. Integrated GGears-style iPhone development -- p...

There are some applications that don't exist for OS X. One of the biggest omissions is quality speech recognition, but another is maps. ...

One of the things that keeps me from being a complete Mac head is Microsoft's remote desktop protocol vs. OS X's ... ummm... uhhhh. ...

SpyMe2 is presumably another VNC based remote control app, though the main page doesn't mention VNC. We're still waiting for someth...

For me, this is bigger than anything announced at MacWorld. Yeah, the iPhone is nice — but that’s months away. There’s nothing else that was...

Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Windows Home Server  has the summary. I’ve been waiting a long time for this — but I was hoping (...