SOTW: Log Me In
Way back in the day when I was working as an Accountant for a company in San Diego I had to run reports from another computer system. This was in the days before high speed internet. I had to use a modem to dial into the internet…so needless to say there wasn’t a computer “network” at all…something like that, at the time, was far too expensive. But with the corporate office in San Diego and the manufacturing in Los Angeles we had to have some sort of system to bring information from one PC to another PC…and have it be cost effective.
We used PC Anywhere. At the time it did what we needed it to do. But that was at least 10 years ago and technology has gotten better. So what is the modern solution for taking control of a PC remotely?
Log Me In is an answer to that question. I won’t get into the technical details (because I don’t know them) but I learned about this little gem while at my current job. Our employees spend time away from the office getting people set up with our software package. We need to get information from our PC’s as well as get into other peoples PC’s.
You go to the Log Me In website and register an account (it’s free!). Then you install the application on that PC. When you go home you go to the webpage and install the program on your home PC. You can now log into the PC you are away from remotely. You have full and total control…just as if you were sitting at that desktop. You can print from that machine to your own printer, you can start and run any program, you can even share files between the two via some sort of FTP type site. It’s slick, it’s easy, and it’s free.
Well…with a catch that is. Unfortunately the full functionality only lasts 30 days (or 2 hours of controlled connection, whichever happens first). But from my understanding you still retain a hell of a lot of functionality once that time has passed.
Give it a shot. Sneak the program onto a friends computer when they aren’t looking. Then, if they leave it on at night, log in from your own PC and have some fun. I’ve used it to pull files from my home PC to my work PC. I wonder…could I play Doom this way. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow!