Remote Desktop Manager
I’ve found that in my placement I am using Remote Desktop quite often to connect to remote servers. I’ve used remote desktop before at home but on a smaller scale but I’ve started to find typing in addresses and user names rather time consuming so I turned to Google!
I came across Remote Desktop Manager which is free for personal and commercial use. Its been great and is such a time safer. So great in fact I am writing a post about it and I also coughed up the £10 odd it cost to upgrade to the enterprise version as some passwords just need to be saved!
I would recommend this to anyone who has alot of Remote Desktoping to do as it really is the best thing since sliced bread! However it also has a few other tricks under its belt. It can manage FTP, SHH, Telnet and VNC sessions as well. I saw on the forums it may also support VMware console in the future but I’m not sure. Anyway check it out!
4 Weeks Later
Well it has been a while since I have posted and a lot has been going on so I do apologise. Its been just over 4 weeks since I moved to Birmingham and what a great experience it has been. My placement has kicked off to a great start and I quickly got to know the ins and outs of the company and its systems so a big thanks to Talwinder, the current placement student I will be replacing.
Birmingham its self has been awesome. Last Monday I went with my new flatmate and his friends to The Rainbow to see Kid British! What a great band and they played amazing live! I also saw The Anomalies which were also awesome and other band which were very good but I have no idea what they were called… Any who it got me in the mood for V festival which is only a month away!
My placement has been a real learning curve and I think its going to get steeper which is always fun. I’m currently looking at a Windows PBX called 3CX which may be implemented at the office.
This weekend I’ll hopefully get round to having a look at the new update for Windows Home Server. Power Pack 3 has been released under a BETA tag, which means its not quite ready for the public as it might still have bugs in the software. It brings support for Windows 7 enhancements to Windows Media Centre. Check it out here.
On that note I have been checking out a new media centre called Boxee! After leaving the Stafford house the original Xbox running XBMC has been retired as I no longer have a TV (Soon to change) so I started using Boxee as a Windows version had just been released. I was very impressed initially and continue to be bemused by its features. Boxee is based on XBMC but does a much better job at presenting its self. The applications feature is also a great edition allowing UK users to watch BBC iPlayer, although here in Birmingham I am on 2mb broadband so can’t stream the HD content. I was going to set up XBMC on my new TV though a PC rather than an the Xbox but I think now it’ll be running Boxee so watch this space!.. Going to have a to buy a TV first though.. and maybe a new small computer..??
Also a quick GOOD LUCK to Andrew, Michael and Dave who are in Germany finishing their first week on placement!
