Teamviewer 9 supports Wake On Lan

The newest version of the remote desktop software Teamviewer now supports WOL or Wake on Lan which means that you can turn on the PC that you want to control from afar (as opposed to leaving the PC on all the time). The following conditions should be met:

1. The PC should be connected by network cable to the LAN (with fixed IP address)

2. The wake-on-lan or "resume by lan" feature needs to be enabled in the BIOS (under power options)

3. You should know your network's public IP address or use a dynamic name service like dyn.com. Read how to get a free dyn address

4. Setup port forwarding for the WOL packet (e.g. 9) on your internet router/modem to the PC's IP address. Go to the web interface of your router (e.g. 192.168.1.1) then 'Advanced Setup'-NAT, "Virtual Server" and add the PC's IP address with port 9 to the list. Depending on which router you have, the exact configuration may vary but the idea is essentially the same.

5. The network interface needs to be able to wake up the PC (device manager-network adapter-networkcard-properties-power management-"allow this device to wake up the computer")

6. In the Teamviewer options (general-wake-on-lan) you need to configure the PC to be assigned to your Teamviewer ID.

For further help check out Teamviewer's Wake On Lan guide

Initiate a torrent download from your iOS device

For this to work you'll need a PC that is on (or that you can turn on through WOL with a remote control software such as TeamViewer or LogMeIn), is connected to the internet and has uTorrent and the Dropbox client installed. Of course you also should have the latter installed on your mobile device too from which you want to initiate the torrent download.

After you've installed all the required software, start uTorrent and under 'Options' go to 'Preferences'. Under 'Directories' put a check mark at 'Automatically load torrents from..' and create a new directory in your Dropbox folder with a identifiable name such as 'torrents'. As a result, all torrent files that are saved in that directory will be automatically launched for downloading provided that uTorrent is running in the background (normally in the tray bar).

Let's say you are still on the road or at another place than your home but want to download a torrent to your home PC from afar. All you have to do on your iPhone is go to your favorite torrent website, tap on the file you want to download, tap 'Open in..', select 'Dropbox' and save it to the 'torrent' folder you've created previously. The uTorrent client will automatically notice the new file in it's watch folder and will start the download of the torrent on it's own.

Wake up a PC on your network with your iPhone using Mocha WOL

First make sure your computer is setup to wake on lan in your BIOS setting. To check this, press the 'del' key (or F2, F10) when your computer starts to enter the BIOS. Verifiy that Wake on lan is 'on' then save and restart.

Now install Mocha WOL by MochaSoft from the App store on your iOS device and add the PC's IP address and MAC address to the app so that next time your PC is off you can turn it on with a press of a button on your iphone