Right – some may not know that the Captain is actually a computer wizard! At times I put dee Jumbie in school. 
This is a cool little trick for those who need to work on their home or office-based computers from zillions of miles away. You can do this – work on your desktop from your laptop while you’re on the road – or .. or from a hand-held computer like an Iphone or Ipad.
So your big computer is at home. You’ve got some things on your laptop but you need a few files from the desktop at home. It could be a real problem – you’re 500 miles away. You need to print that one document now – from your portable printer. How are you gonna do that? 
You get a nifty piece of software called VNC. It costs only $USD 30.00. Well for the Cap – it is well worth the cost.
VNC is a bit tricky if you’re behind a thing called a NAT firewall on your router. But there is a very easy workaround to forward the ports.
The steps:
- Set up VNC Server on home desktop computer and get the computer running.
- Set up VNC viewer on laptop you will be working away from home.
- Work around any firewall issues.
- Connect Viewer to Server – and Bob’s yurr uncle!!
It really is that easy. 
To see how it works click About VNC.
