Where Has This Been All My Life?
I’m really late to this party, but the past week I’ve discovered the pure joy of TeamViewer, a free application that lets you remote control any PC or Mac from any other PC or Mac (or even an iPhone), and it works perfectly and easily. Case in point, the other morning I was in bed, surfing on my MacBook Pro. I had been doing some remote maintenance on my dad’s laptop in Seattle on my desktop PC in the living room earlier. Instead of getting out of bed, or even just logging off from the living room desktop, I used TeamViewer to remote to my desktop from my laptop, and used the already open TeamViewer on my desktop to remote to my dad’s laptop 2,500 miles away. I remote controlled a computer over a remote controlled computer! That’s how good it is.
Over the past week, I’ve used TeamViewer to perform maintenance on my parents’ computers, as well as my sister’s laptop. Prior to this, I’d either have to talk them through their problems over the phone, or waste a day of holiday vacation spent being the family IT guy. Now, I can do it from the comfort of my bed. It’s brilliant.
The screen above is me accessing my MacBook Pro over my desktop. It’s awesome.