Many times in your daily lives, you go by instances of helping people (friends, parents, relatives etc.) in remote locations who are not tech savvy. Whenever you are in such situations where someone need help of your computer knowledge these remote desktop tools comes in handy. These save your money and time while solving the problem. These remote desktop softwares have built in basic features like chat, file transfer, remote shutdown (if privileges) etc. I have been using some these myself for remote support and solving people’s technical glitches with their computers.

LogMeIN - Popular service for remote desktop sharing. Easily access remote PC  by installing a client software onto each machine. Good for remote PC trouble-shooting, etc. Its available for both Windows and MAC.

TightVNC – TightVNC is a cross-platform, open-source remote desktop application. With TightVNC, you need to set up a VNC server on the computer you wish to access remotely; you can then remotely access that computer from anywhere else with any VNC viewer. It is available for Windows and Linux.

TeamViewer - It is more or like same as LogMeIn. Its more secure and is offered in two version free and paid. Its free for non-commercial users. Its one of the best remote desktop tools I have ever used. It is desktop based. Available for both Windows and MAC. But can be installed on linux using wine.

Windows Remote Desktop Connection – It is a default inbuilt application built into Windows which can be used for sharing screens and giving support. In its case the privileges to share remote desktop is taken by sending mails and when user clicks on that authorization link the other user can get access. See how to use it.

UltraVNC – UltraVNC is an open-source desktop application. UltraVNC has many featrures including text chat, file transfer support, and support for optional plug-ins. You can access your computer from any operating system using your web browser. Its a Windows only application.

ShowmyPC - ShowMyPC provides free and premium tools for Instant Collaboration to all users. Software includes Desktop Sharing, Screen Recording, Remote PC access.

If you know any other free, popular desktop sharing tools please feel free to share it with Tech2view’s audience.

Have you ever wanted to setup your own online web directory? Ever heard of DMOZ? and want to setup a site like that. These are the Best 6 free web directory scripts that you can use. You can use these scripts to run your own web directories online.

What you need before that: Domain name, hosting (online file storage) and some technical know-how about installing these directories and you can get started.

1. PHP Link Directory v2 - http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/phpLD-2.1.2.zip – Create a general directory of the best resources accross the web, and allow people to submit their sites. You can also earn money by charging for the review process, as well as a premium for featured links. Many have profitted from this model, and people continue to do this today.
2. eSyndiCat – http://www.esyndicat.com/downloads/eSyndiCat_v1.6.00_E45E24393C45.zip - Template driven interface, Language system, Custom listings fields, Sponsored, featured listings, Extensive admin,  control panel, Unlimited number of categories and listings, Flexible plugin system.
3. Site-Sift Listings - http://scripts.site-sift.com/down.php – Site Sift Listings is a free directory script with many features that webmasters want including creation of static pages. Site Sift Listings can be customized to create the look and feel you want from a directory. Many of the functions are easily turned ON & OFF with the push of a button from the admin section.
4. phpLynx – http://phplynx.com/downloads/index.php?file=2&sort=1 – Its features include a state of the art anti-bot captcha system, together with easy to manipulate templates, a highly configurable submission form, multiple payment modules, and lots more.
5. Yet Another Link Directory – http://www.yaldirectory.com/download.php – Yet another link directory (YALD) is a simple yet powerful and efficient link directory/index program written in PHP with a MySQL backend. YALD also features easily customizable templates and unlimited subcategories.
6. Web Directory Script - http://www.hotwebtools.com/TopSite/script.rar – Web directory script is best suit for small and medium size web portal. It can be used as content management for web directory. Besides giving you the ease to create a portal in just a seconds, our web directory script also allow your visitors to vote on their favorite web site. Then it will display the most voted site in your homepage ordered by votes points.

After you have setup your web directory, you can earn money by monetizing the traffic you get after some hard work in getting this traffic.

PS: What is web directory? Wiki : Web Directory