Wake-on-LAN isn’t a new technology, but with the increasing number of smartphones making their way to the market, it’s high time we looked at how you can make a home theatre PC, or any hard-wired system in your house, wake up from anywhere with free tools and a bit of tinkering. Here’s how to get started.
If you’ve ever left your iPhone at home and needed to check for missed calls, or you couldn’t find it and wanted to make an alarm go off with minimal effort, you could do both of those things easily if remote access were possible. If you have a jailbroken iOS device you can do that by installing Veency, the iOS VNC server.
Running a Windows system by remote screen control requires some serious bandwidth and so usually goes a bit slowly. Improve your Remote Desktop connection speed by tweaking colour depth, disabling sound and printers, and other key settings tweaks. [Tech-Recipes]
Heading to the relatives’ place for a long stay? Working on a Mac that’s not your own? Using the new Mac App Store’s easy licensing and installation, you can create a new user account and quickly set up your favourite software.
While there are options for accessing files on your phone’s SD card, Webkey takes it one step further and essentially allows you to control your rooted phone from your computer.
Chrome: TabRocket is a small Chrome extension that allows you to shuttle open tabs between remote Chrome sessions. If you’ve ever wanted to send a tab to your home computer or your laptop across the room, TabRocket can help.
