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

[Roy Atkinson]

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Roy Atkinson
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On Apr 22, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Tim Smith <tsmith at midmaine.com> wrote:

> 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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>> Michele Stapleton, photographer
>> BRUNSWICK, MAINE
>> http://www.MicheleStapleton.com
>> http://www.MaineWeddingPhotographer.com/
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