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Hamachi Updates And Adds Web-Based Management
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | LogMeIn has released a new version of their popular VPN-solution Hamachi. Hamachi² has the great ease of use of the original Hamachi plus enhancements like a new GUI and web-based management. More »
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Tonido Keeps Cloud Computing Local
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’re interested in the idea of cloud computing and remote access to your files but are a bit paranoid about putting your data on some third party server, Tonido is a great compromise. More »
Shutdown Windows With a Text Message, Thunderbird Edition
2:30AM Adam Pash | We’ve already shown you how to shutdown Windows via SMS with Outlook and how to do the same on a Mac using Mail.app, but a user on the Hak5 forums demonstrates how to setup a similar SMS shutdown using the venerable Thunderbird email client. The method requires the Mailbox Alert extension and a little configuration, but once you’re done you can save some power with a quick text message next time you forget to shutdown your computer. The tutorial is Windows-specific, but I’m guessing you could mesh the Mail.app method with this one and accomplish the same thing for OS X. Remote Shutdown Via SMS [Hak5] More »
Control and Grab Your Torrents From Anywhere with TorrentFlux
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | You’re at a friends house, extolling the virtues of your latest TV obsession or music kick, and you can’t wait to get them into it as well. Usually, this conversation ends with a promise of burned CDs—but why not offer them what you’ve already grabbed from BitTorrent, or give them a user name and password to get what you’re about to start downloading? TorrentFlux, a free, open-source, server-based BitTorrent manager, can do all those things. If you’ve got a Windows or Linux computer you keep on most of the time, a home server, or even hosted space, you can take control of your downloads. Follow through the jump for a tutorial on getting started with TorrentFlux. More »
Retrieve Any File on Your Home Computer by Email
7:00AM Adam Pash | The Murphy Mac weblog steps through how to retrieve any file on your Mac using a simple AppleScript in conjunction with Mail.app. When you’ve finished configuring the script, you can send an email to your home computer with a keyword subject and the full path to the file you forgot—say your homework or that big Keynote presentation—and the script will automatically email the file to you. Of course there are tonnes of other ways you could go about accessing your home files remotely, but Murphy Mac’s slick solution is a good option to add to the list. Retrieve a Remote File – by Email [Murphy Mac] More »
Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN
4:00AM Adam Pash | You want access to your home computer wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, whether that’s via a remote desktop connection, SSH, FTP, web interface, or any other remote access you’ve set up. The catch is, you don’t like throwing money away to an always-on system. Luckily you can have your digital cake and eat it, too, and today I’ll show you how to boot and shut down your system remotely so that it’s ready for you when you need it and it’s not wasting energy when you don’t. More »Take away
7:15AM Tamar Weinberg | Two years ago, we showed you how to take your data home for the holidays. More »
LogMeIn Free for Mac released
10:44AM Sarah Stokely | A free Mac version of remote PC access software LogMeIn has just been released. LogMeIn Free for Mac can be downloaded here. You’ll need to create a (free) account. Once installed on your Mac, the software will let you connect to and control your Mac from a browser via a Windows, Mac or Linux PC as well as the Apple iPhone and other handheld
devices.LogMeIn Free for Mac runs on OS X v10.4 (Tiger) and v10.5 (Leopard).I haven’t tried out the Mac version of LogMeIn, but we previously reviewed LogMeIn for Windows here and told you how to use LogMeIn to provide remote tech support here. More » 
Remote Control a PC with CrossLoop
3:35AM Gina Trapani | Tech site the How-To Geek runs down how to remote control a PC using previously posted CrossLoop, free Windows software that makes VNC dead easy. Like Leopard Screen Sharing, CrossLoop puts a friendly front-end on VNC—as well as an encrypted connection between PC’s—for easy remote computing. With CrossLoop there has to be someone on the other end to accept the connection, so it’s best for tech support (versus controlling a headless PC, for example.) For more on getting your hands dirty with VNC, see how to remote control your home Mac or PC with VNC. Remotely Control Somebody’s Desktop the Easy Way [the How-To Geek] More »
