The scenario – you have multiple computers sitting at your desk and you often find you need little snippets of text that are sitting on one over on another machine – an email address, your sig, a phone number, whatever. Synergy is one way to handle this – I’ve blogged about it before and it’s a fantastic, free app. But maybe you don’t want or need screen sharing, you just need the ability to paste text across machines and platforms. If you’re on a mac or win32 box, check out Crossclip, cross platform clipboard sharing utility. At $20 it’s a little steep for what it does, especially when Synergy is free, but it’s also simpler and a heck of a lot easier to get configured than Synergy is, and their plan is to add the ability to move binary data around also (ie copied gifs, jpegs and so on, which synergy can’t and probably won’t ever do). If you’re running a firewall be aware you’ll have to poke a few holes in it to get this working – there are some great pictorial tutorials on the product’s site to help with that though.
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Sorry, I know this isn’t the place to leave a personal message, but couldn’t figure out how to contact you any other way (yes, technogeek I am not). This is a voice from your past – couple of hints – Maine, WillowBend, a little nutty (but it is part of my charm). Would love to hear from you.
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Hmm, now I’m intrigued. I’m guessing I know who this is based on your AOL name.. My memory’s better than I give myself credit for 😉
As to not being able to find my contact info on the site, yeah. Sorry about that. I’m in the midst of moving the site over to a new design and host and so on and the contact me page hasn’t made the transition yet. Clear sign it ought to be bumped up on the priority list though.
I’ll email you, we’ll see if I’ve guessed right.
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