POTW: Ultra VNC

Here I believe I’m targeting this article at the more advanced computer users, you may of heard of VNC before it stands for Virtual Network Computing in simple terms its basically a remote access client such as windows remote assistand from a personal point of view if I want to help someone with a problem using remote assistand is hell to work with.

So using a client like Ultra VNC or even Tight VNC it really makes life simple, for example a while back a community member of UVNC developed a great mod which is basicall a one click VNC server, so you can send a exe to your friend thats having computer trouble he runs it and pop you get screen showing their desktop brilliant right, saves you a lot trouble, and its a great way to avoid security issues with windows remote desktop, you will find these applications are much more secure as its not running constantly its a one off thing they open it and you close it.

Program Of The Week: Launchy

If you like linux you may have come across an application called Katapult which you can use by hitting alt + space which will then bring up a screen where you can type a name of a application such as kcalc which will then be launched, I’ve been looking for a similar thing for windows as if you look at my start menu you will see that I’ve attempted to order everything but its just too many folders to look through, so I started my hunt and found Launchy.

Launchy is very easy to customize you can have it search any directory for any file for example all my mp3’s are on Z drive at a whopping size of 40gb’s which makes it hard to look for a song so i just added that to the index and had it just search for a file type of .mp3, it also finds your applications by looking at your start menu location such as C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs in that it will look for the .lnk files and place them in the index.

POTW: WinPatrol

This is one of my favorite security programs its brilliant in how it works one of my favorite ways is say you edit the host file it will have a message pop up saying the host file has been edited would you like to accept this change, now imagine someone has put malicious code in their remotely when WinPatrol checks it will find that someone has changed it and you don’t have to accept it.

Now the most important thing is the resources programs use like the ammount of RAM this is a brilliant for using very little space and RAM usage.

If you really want to secure your computer download it, it really is a good program worth installing.

POTW: Bluetooth Remote Control.

I’ve been addicted to this tool a lot this weekend the main reason is so I can control play list from it, I can turn the volume up and down skip the track, fast forward and rewind its a amazing.

I highly recommend this if you use your computer as a media center, it will save you purchasing a expensive remote control for your computer.

Most people already have a phone with bluetooth installed and now you get bluetooth dongles with a lot of mobile phones, if not you can pick one up for under a tenner.

Program Of The Week: Yod’m 3D

This is a amazing little program and one of my favorite 3D effects on Windows, it gives you a effect like Beryl from Linux but it’s on Windows which tops if off for me.

It allows you to have four different desktops so this means you can switch from one to the other for an example on one you have Word open and on the other you have Photoshop open because your on the second desktop you can’t see Word is open until you flick desktops again you get four different desktops which looks amazing when you switch them.

It’s a brilliant tool and easily setup, if you’re used to using different desktops in Linux this is for you its compatible with Microsoft Windows XP and Vista

On my computer I find it runs slightly slow which I guess is because I’m on a very slow computer (no money) 1.8Ghz with 512mb RAM and 256mb graphics, just incase your below that spec this might not be for you but it just about runs for me.

Have fun it really is a amazing program.

Website: Yod’m 3D