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While visiting home I realized that I didn’t have a way to connect to my mom’s computer when she needed help. In a previous article I experimented with Window’s Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance, but found that is was not quite right for what I wanted to do. If your mom is on Windows XP and having a computer problem, UltraVNC is an amazingly simple way to remotely administer her PC and fix problems while she is still logged-in. Unlike RD where only one active user can be logged-in at a time, UltraVNC (a.k.a.

While you may think you need to run a separate server application like Internet Information Services (IIS) to be able to connect to your Windows XP/2003 machine over the internet, the Remote Desktop (RD) application built-in to Windows XP Professional Edition and Windows 2003 is installed as a service that can be configured to be constantly listening for incoming connection requests. Therefore you do not need to add the IIS component or have another server application running to be able to remotely access your PC.

Everyone agrees that security is important, no one agrees on how much effort should go into securing your home wireless LAN. The good news is that there are some basic steps you can take that require just 5 minutes of your time. In this article I will show you how to add various layers of security to your home wireless LAN. The specific wireless router I will be using is a Linksys WRT54G, a popular 802.11g (54 Mbps) device.

Smooth, rounded corners in Photoshop is a typical desired effect, but one that is difficult to achieve for many beginners.

Rounded corners can actually be implemented rather easily. The trick is to use pre-defined shapes, and simply contain your artwork within those shapes.

Photoshop CS comes with some basic pre-defined shapes that will help create smooth, rounded corners.

First, we start off with our image: