Just popping up a (very) quick review of Join.Me, a remote application from the folks who bought you LogMeIn.

I’ve use LogMeIn in the past when doing support for people from home with stuff on their PCs.  One of the downsides has been that when dealing with people with, uh, “less than ideal” PC skills is that there was a bit of setup to to at their end to get it going.

To use Join.Me, you just need to send them to the web page, click Share and it downloads a little app that you run, and generates a number (which looks something like a phone number).

Then I, as the person that wants to connect in, clicks on “Join” and enter the number they’ve been given, they authorise me, and I’m in.  You can even take over control of the mouse and keyboard on the remote computer, which came in very handy.

Overall, (I said this was a quick review!), this is a very useful little service for when you need to be able to see what the other person’s looking at, and/or push them out of the way and take over control of their PC.

I give it 3 Turnips.  Or something.