The increasing advancement in technology and the inventions made recently has completely changed our everyday lives. We have are being evolved to live in a paperless world. In a world where things have to happen quick. In a world there accessibility must be at your fingertips. The invention of the computers and the mobile phones has made communication, information and many other things, just so near to us. All this advancement comes together with its disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage which companies all this is the risk. Risk of theft!
We all know, the expensive gadgets that we always use in our everyday lives like computers, some of them are really expensive. One cannot afford to loose them very easily by theft. This means that it would be preferable if we could get access to this gadgets remotely without having to carry them around. This brings to our discussion, can we remotely control our computers via our smart phones?
Yes! this is absolutely possible. You must have heard of the term "remote desktop", this is exactly what we are going to put into use to get our problem solved. When we talk of the term remote desktop, most of us think of using a computer at home in order to do things on a computer at office. Or maybe you would think in broad terms as to using your computer from a remote location. isn't it?
Well, the term remote desktop is much more bigger then this. You can even access mobile phones with mobile phones, or tablets with iPads, or access your mobile phone from your computer. With today's advancement in technology we can just define remote desktop as to controlling a gadget using another gadget. or maybe remotely controlling a gadget with another gadget. Now this makes it easier for us to understand how we could control our computers with our smart phones.
This leads to one big question. We might have seen a remote desktop App on our PC's, but we haven't seen any close option to that on our smart phones. So how are we going to "remote desktop" between our computer and our mobile phone? Don't worry! The solution to this is very simple. TeamViewer!
TeamViewer is a remote control software or lets say remote desktop software which operates with many OS platforms such as Windows, Android, iOS, Mac OS, OS X, WindowsMobile and Windows RT. Wow! that's a huge range of compatibility. Isn't it?
This huge range of compatibility can allow us to control:
- Computers from computers
- Computers from smart phones
But our main concern now is to control a computer from a smart phone. So, let us see how we can do this.
First of all you will have to install TeamViewer on your computer. You can download it from here depending on the OS that your computer uses. Installing this software on your computer gives you access to use that computer over the internet. You will have to also install TeamViewer in your mobile phone. Click here for Android or click here for your iPhone.
After installing TeamViewer both on your computer and on your mobile, open the application on both your computer and the android device. Now put the Teamviewer ID of your computer into the App in your mobile phone and connect. Now you have all the permissions of operating your computer through your phone given that both are connected to the internet. You can operate your computer from your mobile phone as you would operate it physically.
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