Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Commercial, Freeware, Troubleshooting
Lee's Favorite Apps: Teamviewer
by Lee Mathews Oct 9th 2008
Yes, Teamviewer is completely free for personal use - and if you're doing the "friend that knows about computers" thing for people, you need this app. Here's why.
1) It's portable. Drop it on your flash drive, and you can fire it up and help a buddy out no matter where you are or who's computer you need to run it from.
2) It's small. The QuickSupport module is a 1.3mb download, and telling someone where and how to get it is dead simple.
3) It runs on Windows and Mac. Linux support would be nice, but it's kind of a non-issue - most of the people you offer personal support probably aren't running Linux anyway.
4) It's fast, and secure. Teamviewer runs 256-bit encryption based on RSA key exchange and AES. Their code - including your own custom designed QuickSupport modules - are signed by Verisign.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
