Tuesday, November 27, 2007

patch for vncviewer-win32 for correct entry of cyrillic

Vlad Kharchev's page
page with patch to vncviewer for windows that allows entry of cyrillic characters into any Xvnc
(page in russian), It has been created in 2001, but it applies to tightvnc 1.3.9 just fine.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

s-code - libraries and tools for Windows

S-code VNC viewer and VNC server ActiveX controls (for WIndows) and VNC management tools (for Windows). Commercial.

ActveX-based page for accessing vnc server

Page with VNC viewer embedded into it (as ActiveX control) allows to access VNC server from Internet Explorer (Windows only) with the use of Active-X for free. Based on the VncViewer ActiveX control for the same company.
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j2meVNC - viewer for mobiles

j2meVNC
a free open-source remote desktop viewer for J2ME platform (supported by nearly all mobile phones).

TridiaVNC - dead

TridiaVNC the commercial distribution of VNC. Distribution and support of it has stopped in 2005.

PocketPC VNCViewer Client

PocketPC VNCViewer Client - a vnc viewer for pocketpc 2000-2003. Open-source, free.



.NET VNC viewer

.NET VNC viewer free open-source viewer coded entirely in C# - for mobile platforms. Hosted on sourceforge. Shared desktop can be rotated.

vine viewer & server for macs

Vine Viewer and Server a mac-only viewer and server for vnc-based desktop sharing. Server is free, viewer costs $30.

Chicken of the VNC - mac-only viewer

Chicken of the VNC a free opensource mac-only viewer for VNC protocol of desktop sharing. Hosted at sourceforge.

ScreenRecycler - mac-only viewer

ScreenRecycler is a commercial closed-source mac-only viewer (for $25) for both mac intel and mac ppc.

It claims to be the best client for desktop sharing on mac. Seems not to support http server like many vnc servers can do.

teamviewer - commercial windows-only closed-source

TeamViewer commercial windows-only expensive closed-source product based on VNC. Created by German people. Costs $218 (!) per copy of most cheap edition. There is a free edition (it's unclear whether free edition is only viewer, or it's viewer + server).

It seems not to use any drivers for screen capturing (since it does not require admin rights for installation) so it should work much slower than tightvnc and ultravnc.

UltraVNC - free windows-only VNC implementation

UltraVNC is a windows-only free open source implementation. It's hosted on sourceforge too.

TightVNC

TightVNC - most advanced free version with source code. Forked by Russians (or Ukrainians) to implement better protocol compression, it's in top 10 most active projects at sourceforge.com. No Mac version of the viewer. Recently they've started TightProjector commercial product for broadcasting screen session on Windows.

realvnc - the creators of VNC protocol

RealVNC the original authors of VNC protocol have formed this company.
Cost is $30 for personal edition, $50 for Enterprise Edition.

Monday, October 1, 2007

about blog on services and products that use VNC and patches for VNC

This blog will contain links to products and services that rely on VNC technology and patches for VNC products.