If you are into online software technologies, screen-sharing, remote control and do not get annoyed by learning a bit more about what is possible out there, you will be certainly interested in checking out a recent Slashdot post that covered the best VNC-based screen sharing tools.

"VNC is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing ‘desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures." More info here.

For everyone else VNC is an "open source" piece of software that allows two or more computers to be connected while allowing one to be the host and the others to be the clients.

The host can share its screen, allowing remote users to see exactly what goes happens on that computer.

Having been released under a license that lets other developers and businesses further refine, modify and extend the basic VNC capabilities, a growing set of implementations has sprung up in the last few years, providing a colorful assortment of alternative low-cost solutions to cross-platform screen-sharing and remote control applications of all kinds.

In some implementations VNC...