First I want to give recognition to Tom Mainelli for his excellent article at PC World [linked here]. And for providing this useful information at a most opportune time.

I stopped by the website for LogMeIn - Remote Access and Desktop software, after reading Tom’s article. I was very interested in trying this freebie software on a clients machine needing remote access to their business computers. Let me explain.

I have a client who owns four girly shops dedicated to trimming down the hips and thighs. The problem - it has been a struggle to get a paid for software to work correctly. I won’t mention the softwares name, but it was one of the ones that got sucked up by Symantec.

Anyway here is the situation. The four shops she owns range from 2 to 40 miles away from her home. She employees managers and employees to run the establishments, but since this is a chain, must comply with company policy of providing daily, weekly and monthly reports and other assorted details. And remote access saves the time of having to visit each shop daily.

So I sent her the link to Tom’s article and also to the software site itself asking her to give LogMeIn a try and to see how it works. I told her if the free version worked satisfactorily she may wish to opt for one of the paid versions that offered more options.

Update: After using the freebie software for two weeks, I received this response from my client: “Ron, LogMeIn software is working great. I am able to access all shop systems. Thanks, Marge.”

Gee Marge, your eloquent evaluation is overwhelming! LOL

Oh well, I guess if it works for her I shouldn’t complain. So take a look at Tom’s article for more info and what he found out during his testing.
[tags]remote, access, software, free, [/tags]