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Clipboard Sharing via Rendezvous
DrC writes "ClipboardSharing lets you send your clipboard between Mac OS X computers. You can use it to send or download almost anything that can be copied to a clipboard, including formatted text and images, and because it uses Rendezvous to find computers on the local network it is very simple and efficient to use. It is designed to be used from the menu bar, so it doesn't take space and it's always available." I used to have something thrown together for this in Mac OS, nice to see something easy to use for Mac OS X.
And ... who wants to run VNX or X11 all the time? I don't care that it is via Rendezvous, that's just an implementation detail. My previous code did it via AppleTalk, which also had automatic discovery. Wheee.
Er, VNC.
Looks like it might do rather more, post clipboard contents to other users machines clipboard. I wonder if you can copy files?
At home on my "local network" consisting of only one mac(my powerbook), all others being non-mac, means im kina outta luck to take advantage of this. But i can see it being very useful where i work (total mac oriented) with sharing stuff using this instead of having to put it up on the shared server all the time.
This predates Rendezvous by a couple of years:
http://www.nsobject.com/
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Good lord, how can a free market economy allow something so COMMUNIST to exist?
Think about it. I'm reading a web page or an ebook, and NOTHING stops from copying some of the text and making it available for all my pirate friends.
I bet this piracy tool even allows for cutting and pasting STYLED text over the network. With such easy availability of copyrighted works, the publishing industry will CRUMBLE.
I hope they put the author of this tool in jail, PRONTO.
OH GOD I just realized you can cut and paste IMAGES and AUDIO on the Mac! This is HIGHLY DANGEROUS! Napster was nothing compared to this!
This is a great innovation. I have two computers on my desk, and am always cutting text in one and then mistakingly trying to paste it on the other machine. The one change I would make to this cool little utility is that I would like to have only one clipboard ever, shared between many computers, so when I cut text on one machine it updates all the clipboards. this would be the opposite of multiple clipboards, which I've always hated. anyone know of any efforts to get rendezvous on other OSes?
I don't care that it is via Rendezvous, that's just an implementation detail. My previous code did it via AppleTalk, which also had automatic discovery.
And we all know that Rendezvous is just AppleTalk Phase I done over IP with standard protocols instead of DDP with Apple protocols... Hopefully they'll discover again soon that it needs to be routable to be useful. Then we'll be back to where we were in, what, '87?
I have two Appletalk Zones (Ethertalk, Localtalk) and two IP subnets (2 WAP's) on my home network - AppleTalk Phase II services work just great, Rendezvous not so much.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Why do you need your WAPs on different subnets? Throw them both in bridge mode, and use a nix box for your gateway. Set the same ssid on both, but use two non-overlapping channels. BAM! Wireless roaming. Was that so hard?
(I realize this doesn't solve the problem of routing rendezvous, but it's not meant for that. And you don't need it to do that.)
Why do you need your WAPs on different subnets? Throw them both in bridge mode, and use a nix box for your gateway. Set the same ssid on both, but use two non-overlapping channels. BAM! Wireless roaming. Was that so hard?
They're both older units ('99 Airport, '01 Linksys) and I don't think they expect to be able to do it (at least there's nothing in the setup software). I'll try the SSID collision - thanks.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
And by gum we liked it!
Never could get my granpap to stop bleating on about rock tablets and hieroglyphics, mind you.
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
Just seeing the first few posts seems we have a few /.'ers with some outspoken gripes about other developers doing something that gets some recognition. Can't we all be excited about something useful and interesting, even though perhaps it is similar to things that may have existed previously, and uses a new but not yet ideal technology (rendezvous). The fact of the matter is, we have a developer making a nifty application that will no doubt be adopted by thousands of Mac Users in a matter of days, and its FREEWARE! Job well done, Erik.
The people who appreciate it the most often do not speak as loud as the people who are upset they didn't make it first.
is a clipboard history.
i often times want to put about seven things in my clipboard at once and i end up having to open a text document and paste all the selections i need in them becuase the clipboard has no memory.
i can't share with anyone in my office, but this feature alone makes it awesome.
subject says it all...
you can share files this way to (at least you can copy and paste entire files now in OSX)...
Hi John --
Being a lazy sod and not looking at the source yet, what are the chances that this will compile on OpenStep? I've been looking for something similar for a while now. I'm currently using 'talk' and sharing between Terminals, but a convenient distributed pasteboard would be amazing.
Okay, I was struck by guilt and checked out the code. It looks like it relies on nothing that isn't in the original OpenStep frameworks. Maybe if I get ambitious this afternoon, I'll try and compile it on the Cube.