[DEMUG] Software that captures and transmits what's on my screen in real time?

[Tim Smith]

Leopard allows you to share your desktop in "live" mode via iChat. If  
you were both to have a Leopard equipped iMac (as an example, other  
Macs can work too), you initiate an iChat discussion with the client  
then select "Share My Desktop with ____". And bingo, they can see  
what's on your computer in real time. If you each have a microphone,  
that's even better since you get the audio as well and can discuss as  
necessary. Of course, even without a microphone, you could use regular  
phone and accomplish the same thing. I've tried it a couple times and  
it is extremely easy, and cool. BUT, everyone involved must have a Mac  
running Leopard (as far as I know). It might work for you in certain  
cases, but there's bound to be times when your client is a PC user and  
I'm not aware of how to make it happen in that case.

You could buy a few MacBook Pros and send them to your clients to use  
during the review process. They just have to return them once it's all  
done. ;)

Tim

On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:40 AM Jan/22, Michele Stapleton wrote:

> I shoot lots of weddings for clients who mostly live out of state.
> They get married in Maine/New England, but live in Boston, NYC, DC
> and beyond. They are here for the wedding, but then we don't see them
> again in person.
>
> We make albums for 90% ofthem, but do most of the album planning and
> editing via a series of phone calls and/or emails, posting web
> galleries or pdfs for them to look at.
>
> Every now and then we'll have a local client or someone who can drive
> back up to work on their album, and it makes album planning and
> editing so much easier when they can come into my studio and sit down
> at the computer with the designer to make their album changes.
>
> Which got me thinking yesterday about how it might be nice if there
> was some sort of software or service which would allow us to edit the
> album long distance but in real time--if they could sit at the
> computer in their home and see what we are doing on the screen here.
> And we could talk back and forth via the computer or the phone at the
> same time, and maybe that would be almost as good as having someone
> come in the studio.
>
> That would require some sort of software that would capture and
> transmit what is on my screen to their screen in real time.
>
> We are doing most of our designs in InDesign right now, but the
> software we are using shouldn't matter, I just want them to get
> screen shots in real time.
>
> Anyone heard of such an animal?
>
>
>
> Michele
>
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