- Remote Performance Observer 3.0 Guards. — Maintaining the working state of 3-4 computers in an office is rather easy. But, maintaining 5-10 computers is much more difficult. Maintaining two dozens computers turns into a hard and complicated process, which requires certain professional skills. And, how about maintaining hundreds of computers? In fact, it is almost impossible without a number of special tools. However, such tools are very useful for maintaining…
- WinLock Remote Administrator 1.22, Total Authority — How one control the computer’s usage? Yes, this question is too wide. How can one control the *public* computer’s usage? If the number of users is limited, the admin can create an account for each user and control them. However, this approach hides some problems: Sometimes there are no permanent users, only the «accidental» ones; sometimes the Windows’ built-in user restrictions are insufficient; sometimes there…
- Quake I port for Nokia Series 60 — The speed of digital hardware progress is really amazing. Moore’s law (doubling of CPU speed every 1.5 year) is still alive, typical time-to-live of personal home computer is not more then 2-3 years, after that it is considered *ancient* and can hardly be sold for any money. More and more often, there are voices standing against this speedy hardware revolution; they say, most of us can use not more than the tenth…
- Beyond Remote Support, Focus on Problem, Not on Getting to It — Solving a tricky problem on a remote box is often not as hard as getting to that problem. Helping a newbie to obtain, install and run a remote assistance program sometimes may be harder than resolving the original problem. A remote assistance application has got to be something really easy, not harder than making just a few mouse clicks. This idea was picked up by Data Apples Corp., and they came up with…
- EMCO Remote Desktop Professional — Administering networks is something all system administrators do on a daily basis. Unfortunately, minor issues and major problems tend to happen from time to time and in most cases require immediate and resolute actions, as any network downtimes affect the whole company and its clients. However, sometimes problems come when they are least expected — for instance, when the system administrator is away or on a sick leave and…
- Reboot Service - ad hoc control over the stability of remote servers — If the stability of your corporate network or the proper operation of your clients’ applications depends on how your server performs, its uninterrupted work and long uptime should be your primary areas of concern. Whenever your server’s memory is full, memory overflow errors cause the server to perform poorly or lead to complete freezing. In these cases, being close to the server to reboot it is vital…
- Anyplace Control - control remote systems no matter where you are — Most probably, there have been situation in your life when you had to explain something computer-related to another person on the phone. The task seems easy when you are talking to somebody with experience and knowledge in the area — in this case, the whole process may take mere seconds. But imagine having to explain the process of configuring an Outlook account to your mother-in-law and you’ll instantly realize what…
- Live Desktop - remote assistance from any location — How many times over the past year did you have to explain a simple task to a computer novice on the phone? And even if you thought that the task was extremely easy and self-explanatory, your vis-à-vis probably had a totally different opinion and couldn’t grasp your ideas. When verbal instructions are no longer efficient, you end up driving over to the unfortunate user and fixing the problem in a couple of clicks…
- Remote Administrator Control - stay in control, anywhere, any time! — If you have ever tried explaining anything PC-related to your mom or computer-illiterate friend, you have a perfect idea what a pain it can be. Even changing a small parameter may require a good half an hour on the phone, let alone more complex issues. Things get much worse, however, when it comes to supporting a couple of remote departments in your company with dozens of people regularly submitting requests…
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