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.

Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years

[pudge]

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.

Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years

[pudge]

Er, VNC.

Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years

[bill_mcgonigle]

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.

Re:And to think I've been able to do it for years

[bill_mcgonigle]

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.

VNC? In my day we passed notes on notebook paper

[NaugaHunter]

And by gum we liked it!

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

useful depending

[ionyka]

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.

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Re:Also worth a look: nsRemotePasteboard.

[Ponty]

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.

more like INSTANT PIRACY

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Brilliant

[prismbreak]

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?

Re:Brilliant

[davids-world.com]

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.

Re:Brilliant

[qwertme]

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

Re:Brilliant

[burns210]

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

Re:Brilliant

[prismbreak]

Rendezvous is indeed based on Zeroconf.

http://www.zeroconf.org/

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

Re:Brilliant

[Ponty]

http://bitshift.org/zeroconf.shtml

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

C'mon...respect for other developers...

[inblosam]

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

Re:C'mon...respect for other developers...

[inblosam]

Again, respect for developers. Is it necessary for all software to be open source at every stage of development? Take "Hydra" for example. [slashdot.org] 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 beginni

one of the cooler functions

[self assembled struc]

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.

this is a good idea

[PeeweeJD]

subject says it all...

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