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Show My PC Review
- Remote Access Only Plans
- 1 PC: $5 per month
- 3 PCs: $9 per month
- 5 PCs: $12 per month
- 10 PCs: $20 per month
- Remote Access With Remote Assistance Features (Chat, whiteboarding, conference call etc)
- Premium: $14 per month
- Professional: $19 per month
- Business: $39 per month
- Enterprise: $49 per month
- Private Server Plans (One off fees)
- 2 concurent meetings: $390
- 4 concurrent meetings: $790
- 10 concurrent meetings: $1790
- 20 concurrent meetings: $3520
- 30 concurrent meetings: $5100
- Useful remote access application for instant collaboration or support
- Access a remote PC as if you were directly in front of it
- Chat and whiteboard features
- Invite colleagues to share your desktop
- Record a video of your computer's desktop and share it with colleagues
- Create and share online presentations with other users
- Secure encrypted communications between computers
- Uses SSH cloud server for connectivity
- Private SSH server plans available
- Schedule meetings using Outlook
- Free conference call number with premium and above plans
- Personal homepage at your own domain with business plans and above
- Personal application branding with premium plans and above
- Up to 25 concurrent meetings
- Unlimited numbers of participants per meeting
- Share files and applications
- Online technical support
- Integrated Mac, Windows and Linux support
ShowMyPC is a straightforward desktop sharing and remote access tool with some useful collaboration features. It doesn't offer the quite so highly polished service some of the other products in this category do, but it still works well and provides plenty of useful features. A free service was previously available but has been temporarily suspended, however, the paid for options are very reasonably priced and suitable for home or business users.
ShowMyPC is a simple to use application whose main function is to allow the control and viewing of a remote PC. It is a java based application and so can run on Windows or Linux based PCs as well as Macs, although not all of the features are available in each different version. The main remote viewing facility works very well between different platforms however. The two different versions on offer vary slightly in their functionality and price, with the more expensive of the two offering a few more features. The higher priced version is aimed more at people who want to have extra features to provide remote assistance and collaborate on projects with the remote computer.
The setup process for ShowMyPC is one of the most simple we have seen. It doesn't require any installation and the application runs directly from the executable file. This makes it ideal for novice users who need support as they simply have to double click a file to start the service. To gain access the client application must be started on the remote PC and a name and password set up. This password can then be used to access the computer using the application directly on another computer or through a web browser. There are no issues with firewalls or routers due to the central server that ShowMyPC uses to set up connections between computers.
As well as being able to remotely control the target computer and transfer files between it and the local computer, the higher priced version provides chat and whiteboard facilities so that you can provide remote assistance to another user or collaborate with them on a project. It also provides a free conference call number that businesses can share with their clients in order to talk at the same time as providing support. Meetings can be set up this way and communicated using Outlook to share the one-time meeting password with the intended participants. Business users will most likely also appreciate the ability to customize the application with their own logo and colours.
In ShowMyPC security is implemented slightly differently from other similar applications. Only one password is needed to access the remote PC and this is generated by the application itself to identify your PC and secure it. Anyone with this password can then access your computer according to the settings you specify when setting the application up. Communications are handled using ShowMyPCs SSH server (if you don't know what this term means it isn't too important, it's simply a well known and secure protocol for remote log ins) which is secure but slightly slower than some other applications. However, for a one off fee, instead of paying monthly, you can use ShowMyPC with your own private SSH server to reduce the ongoing cost.
ShowMyPC is not quite as fully featured and polished as some other applications in our top ten, but it provides an alternative to paying an ongoing monthly fee if you have the facilities to set up your own SSH server. Even the monthly fee option is pretty reasonably priced for an application this easy to set up and use. It might be worth having a look around at other products first, but you certainly won't be making a bad decision if you choose to go for ShowMyPC.
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