ClipboardSharing - Share clipboard data between Macs
Jul 27, '04 10:28:00AM
Contributed by: robg
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[Score: 10 out of 10]
[This is the Pick of the Week for the week of July 26th, the current week (whew, caught up again!)]
ClipboardSharing is one of those apps that I didn't know I needed until I found it. If you have more than one Mac and do a lot of work on both of them, it can be an incredible timesaver. What is it? Basically, ClipboardSharing lets you share the contents of the clipboard with any number of additional Macs on your local network. ClipboardSharing is an application, not a preferences panel, so there's not much to worry about in the way of crashing or compatibility. Launch it on each machine whose clipboards you'd like to share, and you'll see a new scissors icon in each machine's menubar. Click the icon to reveal the preferences and options:
ClipboardSharing has no dock icon, so you quit it by using the Quit option in the menubar. In the preferences, you can specify a size limit for data on the clipboard, how many clipboards to remember (yes, it's a basic multiple-clipboard app, too), and whether to store the clipboards on the hard drive between uses of the program. A Sharing tab lets you set up custom ports, enable logging, and specify whether or not to be notified when your clipboard is modified. The Access tab allows you to create rules for accessing the clipboards; I added a simple "Deny access if client is not on my local network" rule to prevent accidentally sharing my clipboards with the net :). Finally, AutoSync will keep clipboards on two machines in sync (I haven't tested this part of the program yet).
For me, this is a big timesaver, as between working on the book, Macworld articles, and hints, I'm constantly jumping between the two machines to test something on one or the other, and usually taking a screenshot in the process. Now I can just shoot the screenshot to the clipboard and have it instantly accessible from the other Mac. There are probably some good uses in a work group situation, too, to share info across the team quickly and easily.
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