links for 2009-06-09

Category : Daily Links

links for 2009-06-08

Category : Daily Links

No install means no install!!!

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Category : Rants, technology

Screen Sharing

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I was reading 6 free remote desktop sharing and screen sharing solutions from Online Tech Tips looking a free new install remote desktop sharing to help support friends and family. I checked on all 6 of the solutions OTT listed and a few from the comments. A few of them claimed to have no install, but when you started digging deeper there was an install, there a ‘plug-in’ or activeX component. These are installs!!! Anything that is added to a system that requires admin access is an install.

I’m talking to you SkyFex and dimdim. TeamViewer does only require the ‘expert’ to have software installed and they do have a portable app that doesn’t require an install its a stand alone exe. But it is only available in the paid version :-(

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links for 2009-01-24

Category : Daily Links

Multiple monitors – Getting applications back after secondary display fails

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Category : Post from around the Net, technology

LG L194WT-SF LCD monitor

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I run two PCs on dual monitor – by which I mean each PC is connected to the same two monitors.  So much of the time, although they are dual monitor configurations I live only on a single monitor.

This means that every now and then, when you run an app it appears on the taskbar but not on screen, because it’s on the other monitor currently viewing the other PC.

Here’s my quick trick to get items on screen without switching monitor inputs;

  1. Right click on program name on taskbar.
  2. Click on Restore if available.

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