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

[Roy Atkinson]

Webex basically provides a cross-platform way to do everything Leopard will do natively.

It costs money.

"You can have it better, faster, cheaper - pick any two."

http://support.webex.com:80/SelfServiceWeb/SelfServicePortal.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=ViewArticle&currentIndex=0&articleID=208b95bc-16c6-11d8-80ba-0003ba2f9166&returnTo=kbResults

or
http://tinyurl.com/6n8poa

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On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 12:16PM, "Roy Atkinson" <macadvisor at mac.com> wrote:
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>On Apr 22, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Tim Smith <tsmith at midmaine.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> Michele Stapleton, photographer
>>> BRUNSWICK, MAINE
>>> http://www.MicheleStapleton.com
>>> http://www.MaineWeddingPhotographer.com/
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>>
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