Several years ago, I wrote an article about how to access the Internet while travelling. It focused on using a notebook computer with dialup access, using a hotel business center’s computer (or a friend’s whom you were visiting) to access your emails. Little more than that So much has changed… Now, we have smart phones, [...]
Remote Control of Your Own Computers With Windows 7
For a long time, I’ve been using the free version of RealVNC to provide remote control from my notebook to the other computers on my home network. This has been very convenient when doing updates. It was also a necessity with my home theater PC, as it was displaying to a large screen TV. For [...]
Laptop Wireless Card and Router Doesn’t Work
New subscriber Al Rogenski wrote to ask about wireless Internet access. He has a card in his laptop and a router, but they won’t talk together. Al’s question was: I have a Verizon broadband card 770 in my laptop. I would like to get a router so I can set up a wireless network in [...]
Remote Control of Your Own Computers
There are a number of ways that you can control other computers from another computer. Some of them are commercial products, like GoToMyPC, that are designed to let you control your home or office PC when you’re not there. Others are designed for convenience so that you can work across a home network. Some have [...]
Summertime Travel – and Internet Access
It’s vacation time! Time for travel, leisure, and a break from the daily web surfining and emails… A break? To some extent, we all need an occasional break from our Internet use, expecially if we tend to get immersed in it regularly. However, a complete break, a complete hiatus, is difficult for most people. If [...]
Remote Access to Your Computer
There are a few alternatives for local remote access to your computer — local as in, from my notebook at home to my home theater PC. For that service, and to access my other home computers behind my firewall, I use UltraVNC. UltraVNC is great if you’re accessing within your home network, but, in order [...]
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