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Clipboard Sharing via Rendezvous

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-clipboards dept.

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.

33 comments

  1. FPMF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FPMF!

    1. Re:FPMF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Wow. Only 13 minutes after the article was posted. Not only are you lame; you're also fucking slow.

  2. And to think I've been able to do it for years by eht · · Score: -1, Troll

    with VNC or X

    yes yes Rendezvous is new exciting revolutionary technology that will redefine the world just like Apple did before with a windowing system and a mouse, of wait, that was Xerox

    yeah, this is flamebait or trolling, but it's also informational

    1. Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years by pudge · · Score: 2, Informative

      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.

    2. Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years by pudge · · Score: 1

      Er, VNC.

    3. Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Looks like it might do rather more, post clipboard contents to other users machines clipboard. I wonder if you can copy files?

    4. Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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)
    5. Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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.)

    6. Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1

      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.

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      My God, it's Full of Source!
      OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
  3. I remember the first time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I remember the first time I flamed somebody as an anoymous coward...makes you feel big doesnt it? But at the same time safe and secure, like a warm banket allowing you the illusion of power with none of the risks of showing yourself! Who is the jackass?

  4. useful depending by ionyka · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  5. Also worth a look: nsRemotePasteboard. by jcr · · Score: 3, Informative


    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."
  6. more like INSTANT PIRACY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

    1. Re:more like INSTANT PIRACY by sboss · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Moron! This is just a shared clipboard. Windows has had one for a while (not very good one but had one) and Unix has had one for a while also. What is your major malfunction?

      Dont post negative/bashing comments as anonymous! If you want to post something that can cause a flame war/thread from hell(tm)/etc login so people know who said what...

      Scott

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    2. Re:more like INSTANT PIRACY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Moron! YHBT. HAND. :)

    3. Re:more like INSTANT PIRACY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ummm... cool down scott. He was kidding.

  7. Brilliant by prismbreak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:Brilliant by davids-world.com · · Score: 1

      if only this little app would allow for automatic clipboard sharing like you suggested. instead, you need to tell the program explicitly to send or fetch the clipboard content.

    2. Re:Brilliant by qwertme · · Score: 1

      Not really inovation, I remember sharing the clipboard on a windows NT 4 machine...

    3. Re:Brilliant by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      yes, but only when a script kiddie exploited your box.

      --
      Do you even lift?

      These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

    4. Re:Brilliant by burns210 · · Score: 1

      Rendezvous is just Apple's implementation of Zeroconf, an open standard.

    5. Re:Brilliant by prismbreak · · Score: 1

      Rendezvous is indeed based on Zeroconf.

      http://www.zeroconf.org/

      but my question remains unanswered... is there a Zeroconf implementation on non-mac platfoforms?

    6. Re:Brilliant by Ponty · · Score: 1

      http://bitshift.org/zeroconf.shtml

      Twenty seconds is a long time... ...argh, and two minutes is even longer.

  8. VNC? In my day we passed notes on notebook paper by NaugaHunter · · Score: 1

    And by gum we liked it!

    Never could get my granpap to stop bleating on about rock tablets and hieroglyphics, mind you.

    --
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  9. C'mon...respect for other developers... by inblosam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:C'mon...respect for other developers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      FUCKFACE! This is slashdot. Open Source only.

    2. Re:C'mon...respect for other developers... by inblosam · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Again, respect for developers. Is it necessary for all software to be open source at every stage of development? Take "Hydra" for example. They have created one sweet application, using the great Rendezvous, but it is not open source. However, it is FREEWARE. They have reasons, you have reasons, and we all need to make money somehow. Until then, keep your expletives (AKA words of a person with limited vocabulary or ability to properly express themselves) to yourself. Open Source is an end, can be a beginning, but not always both all of the time. Reason in a season for everything.

  10. one of the cooler functions by self+assembled+struc · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  11. sharing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Female skeletons dug up in China to make 'ghost soup'
    Tues Apr 08 2003 23:11:32 ET

    Hong Kong (dpa) - Women's skeletons are being excavated from graves in a province in China to make 'ghost soup', a news report said Wednesday.

    The skeletons are being stolen from graves in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and police believe they are being used to make a traditional soup remedy, the South China Morning Post reported.

    Locals in the area believe 'ghost soup' - soup stock made from the bones of women - cures a range of ailments, according to the newspaper.

    END

  12. this is a good idea by PeeweeJD · · Score: 1

    subject says it all...

    you can share files this way to (at least you can copy and paste entire files now in OSX)...

  13. pudge you ignorant slut! by Horny+Smurf · · Score: -1

    Don't you know editors don't read slashdot, and definitely don't post to stories! Next thing you know, you won't be posting dupes!

  14. Gosh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Golly! Clipboard sharing via Rendezvous! Well, THAT makes me want to run right out and spend twice-as-much to get half-as-much from a contemptible snake oil salesman in jeans and a black turtleneck.

  15. Re:Also worth a look: nsRemotePasteboard. by Ponty · · Score: 1

    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.