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1. 

   AlexSJ
   Member

   Hello all:
   just wondering how you all communicate between pc's
   I just discovered simidude (they have a great deal for it on iconico.com today), which makes that really comfortable. It uses the clipboard and with just Copy&Paste you can send either text, pics, files and folders from one pc to another.
   Lately I was installing a bunch of games on other pc's and no matter what I was always missing one or the other file on the usb drive, so I'd have to go back, copy, unplug etc. I also tried Mesh and DropZone before, same goes for Skype and Messenger, but this is so much more comfortable.
   On the downside it that both PC have to be online and connected at the same time.
   Pura Vida, AlexSJ

   Posted 15 years ago #
2. 

   ibwebb
   Member

   @AlexSJ:
   Tweaked my interest and took a look at it. Looks like a neat program.

   If anyone else is interested in it; the web site I will paste below is offering it for a very modest price (best I found while searching around for info about):

   http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/simidude/

   Best Wishes
   ibwebb

   Posted 15 years ago #
3. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Thanks for that ibwebb; it definitely interested me. A short trial and I couldn't resist buying it for such a bargain price. Definitely worth the $11 I had to pay (included tax on top of the original quoted price).

   Regards

   Whiterabbit

   Posted 15 years ago #
4. 

   MerleOne
   Member

   Could you confirm both PC have to be online at the same, this seems a major drawback? Also, do you know where the copied data is stored (on the publisher server ?). Thanks.

   Posted 15 years ago #
5. 

   goodgotd
   Member

   personally, that's what a LAN is for, in-house- but if I have to copy stuff to a remote computer on a trip a USB external hard drive tucked in next to my laptop is the way to go. with a couple hundred gigs you can take *everything* along!

   (ok, when I had one computer stubbornly not connecting to the network, I used the external hard drive in-house. finally found the network cable got mouse-chewed.)

   being online isn't a problem at my end- aDSL doesn't hang up, and a free account at dyndns.org lets me phone home even if the internet ip changes- but one of the free VNC programs is my transfer method of choice.

   paranoid, I is. I'm not giving my data to a server not mine own!

   Posted 15 years ago #
6. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Hi MerleOne, I haven't had the time to test it yet. I'll write a short review or at least comment upon whether I wasted my money sometime soon. I'm having a week off from reviews and other such stuff. Trying to catch up on some game play instead. :)

   Hi goodgotd, not seen you around for awhile. Hope all is well with you?

   Regards

   WR

   Posted 15 years ago #
7. 

   goodgotd
   Member

   well.. hmm.. nope, whiterabbit, not especially. not quite horrid, but not far off in some ways.

   I've run smack into one of my periodic severe depressive cycles aided and abetted by various setbacks online and right here. the economics of fixed income doesn't help a bit when things break down around the house and it's down to parts or eating- before the month is half over.

   I've just about got the kinks worked out of the new dsl bridge's router, but I've gotten severely out of touch with most of my online stuff. Even email slid by the boards for a while, and is still spotty. gotta find a better photo hosting site, revisit sites I've let slide, dig up photos that went straight from camera to DVD, etc.

   And in between I need to get an early jump on getting physically active so I can get back out in the yard. The whole yard is bloomin' already, (there are some some rather cool sub-quarter-inch blossoms crying out to be snapped) the roses are greening up and blackberries are already preparing to assault. And it hasn't finished raining yet.

   let me know how that transfer program looks- I have laplink from when I was using a serial cable to move books onto the last laptop, but the server in between separated machines kept me from setting up the remote access part.

   when I needed to move stuff before I got the external hdd, I set up an FTP server on one of my machines- just seemed safer. VNC sounds good though.

   Posted 15 years ago #
8. 

   AlexSJ
   Member

   Did you ever copy some web link, file or text snippet into the clipboard of the one computer you're just working at and hoped that somehow , magically that clipboard item would wander over to the other Pc where you actually needed it?
   Well, that's exactly where this one comes in handy. No hazzle to configure network connections in Explorer, no having to grab the USB stick, copy to it, go back etc. - it's really a convenience thing.

   However, there is NO password encryption at the moment. Simidude is meant to run inside a private network, which could mean me linking up with WhiteRabbit in the UK as well - only by using the same group name and password. As long as we stick to the same group we could have even shared the license.

   For example I'm working on a spelling project for Spanish words on Qedoc with my son and we had to interchange the same Excel file about 5 times yesterday, from the PC that he is using back to my laptop. Usually, we would have copied that on the USB, walked over, plugged it in, copied to the other machine and so forth, but you know, sharing a teenager's USB stick is another security risk altogether so I actually feel much better not having to do that. Now we just both start simidude, hit Ctrl+C and done.

   Pura vida, AlexSJ

   Posted 15 years ago #
9. 

   goodgotd
   Member

   err. sounds interesting, but document copy/paste isn't something I'd use myself- to me, having a lan means if I want to paste something I do it. 3 of the 4 computers online are all mine- and terri's computer- well, she doesn't want to know. I copy video files or insert a dvd to watch on the tv, then make it work.

   Posted 15 years ago #

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