Dr Andus
2/1/2014 1:15 pm
Franz Grieser wrote:
Yes. In a way this was already possible with apps like TeamViewer before, however you'd either need someone at the other end to type in IDs and passwords or the screen quality was so poor that you'd never actually want to do any proper work on the remote PC other than fix a few things.
What's different with the Chromebook + PC combo via CRD is that as long as your remote PC is on and the internet connection is on (and you have installed Chrome and CRD on that PC beforehand and paired it with your Chromebook), it will only take typing one numerical password to establish the connection.
The other difference is the high quality of the transmission (at least on the HP Chromebook 14), and the ability to move from monitor to monitor on the remote PC. Depending on the quality of the internet connection, there might still be a bit of a lag when typing, but otherwise I was perfectly able to work in CT, and PhraseExpander may have even helped for me not to be bothered about the lag.
You may have trouble running software this way that rely on some special hotkey combinations (or on AutoHotkey), in cases where those keys might not be available on the Chromebook keyboard (although it seems to be possible to send over hotkey combinations too, I just haven't figured out how to add mine to the ones that are already in CRD).
Does that mean, you can e.g. control ConnectedText or any other Windows
application running on your desktop PC from the Chromebook? That would
be really cool.
Yes. In a way this was already possible with apps like TeamViewer before, however you'd either need someone at the other end to type in IDs and passwords or the screen quality was so poor that you'd never actually want to do any proper work on the remote PC other than fix a few things.
What's different with the Chromebook + PC combo via CRD is that as long as your remote PC is on and the internet connection is on (and you have installed Chrome and CRD on that PC beforehand and paired it with your Chromebook), it will only take typing one numerical password to establish the connection.
The other difference is the high quality of the transmission (at least on the HP Chromebook 14), and the ability to move from monitor to monitor on the remote PC. Depending on the quality of the internet connection, there might still be a bit of a lag when typing, but otherwise I was perfectly able to work in CT, and PhraseExpander may have even helped for me not to be bothered about the lag.
You may have trouble running software this way that rely on some special hotkey combinations (or on AutoHotkey), in cases where those keys might not be available on the Chromebook keyboard (although it seems to be possible to send over hotkey combinations too, I just haven't figured out how to add mine to the ones that are already in CRD).