I recently discovered Hamachi, a very neat little application that allows you to establish a Virtual Private Network (VPN) within in minutes without configuring any routers or firewalls across any network.
For the non-techies out there: A VPN fools your computer into thinking it's on a private network, thus allowing you to share files & folders, print to shared printers or, in my case, play a quick game of DotA with a friend of mine without needing to organise a LAN party.
Hamachi works on some of the same Peer-to-Peer principles that allow Skype to bypass most firewalls (and Vodacom/MTN engineers). The interface is uncluttered and ridiculously simple.
Hamachi comes 'freemium', meaning you can get a basic, yet fully functional version for free. If you want to start linking up 100s of computers, you can pay $5 a month for the premium version.
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