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Best Free Remote Desktop Alternatives

Posted on 26. Aug, 2009 by UzEE.

I often have to travel a lot between my home city, and my university which are more than 300 miles apart. On top of that, I don’t carry around a notebook or a netbook (I don’t even want to get in the discussion of why) so I usually have a tough time when I want something from one of my computers at home while I’m at the university.

Sure I do use cloud storage for important files, but sometimes we need more than just files and data, like for example, I might want to make some changes to my Home Server which is only accessible through the PCs on my Home network.

In these types of situations, I turn to a Remote Desktop Connection program which allows me to connect to my PC from anywhere in the world as long as I have Internet. It even works on the iPhone. Windows has a Remote Desktop Connection solution built into it, but we will be looking at the alternatives.

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RadioSure Desktop Internet Radio Player and Recorder

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by Brian.Ross.

Have you ever felt the need for more music then what’s available at home or work?  Or, maybe you’re like me, and you’ve moved and you wish you still had access to those old stations that you know and love so much?  Well, in either case, and dozen more, chances are that RadioSure is the perfect for you.

RadioSure is a free desktop application for Windows XP, Vista, and 7 that has a number of convenient features and offers over 12,000 radio stations from the US and around the world, and the ability for you to add more!  On top of that, it’s so easy to use even a caveman could do… Wait!  Someone already use that, didn’t they?

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Ultimate Freeware List: Application Launchers

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by srikanth.

Here at LostInTechnology, we strive to give you great information on great tools and software.  Most articles tend to focus on one or a few specific tools or programs.  The Ultimate Freeware Lists are changing that format around.

We are going to provide you with tons of different tools that are all free and will really expand your arsenal of great programs and software.  These lists are by no means going to be perfect, and we ask all of our loyal readers to help us complete the lists by adding some comments.

In the first list we covered media players. This time we are on a quest to provide you with the ultimate freeware list of Application Launchers.

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How To Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows XP

Posted on 09. Dec, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Being able to access the documents on your home PC can be extremely important for anyone that travels or works away from home.  Remote Desktop is a great Windows utility that allows you to easily access the data you need from anywhere.  Setting up Remote Desktop in Windows can be an intimidating task, but I’m going to walk you through the process step by step to make it a much easier and painless process.

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Top 5 Blogging Tools for Mac: Tool #2 Ecto

Posted on 19. Nov, 2008 by Luis Sandoval.

After gathering all your information through Newsfire and formulating the post in your head, it’s time to take that idea and put it on “paper.” Writing can be the hardest for those that are not used to writing on a regular basis, and writing via the online tools like Blogger and Wordpress may not be what that person needs. Even if you are a great writer, sometimes you have ideas you want to put down and an online connection is just not something you can find at the moment. Sure you can open Microsoft Word and take matters into your own hands, but there is an alternative.

A very popular tool that I use a regular basis and one that I’m using right now is called Ecto. Ecto is an offline blog writing application that allows you to have all the tools that a standard blog application would have, except you do not rely on an internet connection. The application is intuitive, easy to use, and once set up (which you do need an internet connection for), Ecto is yours to create with.

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SocialAddict Brings Social Networking to Your Desktop

Posted on 05. Aug, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

As a blogger that tries to constantly market myself through social networks, I am often frustrated by having to open so many tabs or go to so many webpages just to update my status.  Sites like Ping.fm are making it easier through aggregating some of the updates, but it’s still another website to go to (if you don’t have a Ping.fm invite, get one here).  I prefer desktop clients like Twhirl, if I can have them.

SocialAddict is a new desktop application that allows you to update several social networking sites from the comfort of your desktop.

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TweetDeck is a Great Desktop Twitter Client

Posted on 30. Jul, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

A little over a week ago, I posted 26 Ways to Update Twitter where I mentioned several desktop clients for Twitter.  After playing around a little more with TweetDeck, I decided it was worthy of a post of its own.  TweetDeck adds new functionality and flexibility to your average Twitter desktop client by adding multiple columns, groups and search with Summize.

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Plurk From Your Desktop with Plurkair

Posted on 08. Jul, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

It wasn’t long ago I was posting about Plurk taking strides to move past Twitter as the microblogging service of choice.  In the article, I spoke about how Plurk has a long way to go to surpass Twitter.  One of the shortcomings of Plurk I mentioned was the lack of a desktop client.

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