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Seeing Is Believing: Watching Someone Else’s Desktop From Another Room, City or Country
Jun 14th
Computers are a fact of life. They are everywhere and used by everyone…
For example, even my daughter learned how to Shut Down Windows when she was in pre-school and 3 1/2…
Nowadays, you run into situations where you wish you could show someone you know what you’re looking at on your computer screen.
Perhaps this is especially true when you’re trying to troubleshoot some problem that keeps arising, and you just know that your geeky friend can fix it in seconds — only if he saw it first hand since you just cannot describe it in words well enough to get the quick fix secrets.
Introducing live desktop sharing. Long available to IT chipheads and business webcasts/web collaboration from huge companies like WebEx, this quite useful feature is now available to the masses….for free too.
Now, you can instantly and painlessly let someone else see your computer screen as if they had a long monitor cord to your PC connected through the internet. You can let them see what you’re doing on your monitor and they can watch everything that happens.
How to Copy/Paste Information From One PC to Another
Apr 19th
Do you find yourself surfing the web or working on a computer other than your own but want to save it for later when you get back home or to the office? It might be at an internet terminal while traveling, or on a public computer station that allows you to check email/webmail, or just a friend’s computer in another office. Usually you’d email it or send a message via instant messaging. But for small things, it might be nice NOT to fire up email or some other app to do that.
One really neat website resource I found is basically an Internet Clipboard just like working in Windows or on a Mac…but it allows you to copy/paste any information you have on that “foreign PC” and save it virtually and pick it up back on another computer… Read the rest of this entry »
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