Screenhero Shares Your Screen with Others, Gives Each Person Their Own Mouse

This is great for pair programming, especially for lazy people like me!

I used to do screen sharing through iChat (Mac to Mac) but this was always a hassle when I was using multiple external monitors (the screen/text was too small and nearly unreadable if the person I was sharing with was on a laptop). There could exist some fix for this but I never found it.

Screenhero handles this much better and I can just share an application (e.g. VIM, Chrome, etc.) and the distortion is minimized. At first I didn't think the multiple mouse feature was that big of a selling point, but I've actually found it quite useful; when working on a remote team you can't physically point that the screen with your finger so the mouse does the job :)

I just tried it with my mom. She has a Mac laptop, and lives outside US. I was using a fairly crazy setup, involving VNC on my firewall box (running pfSense), and she had to remember how to connect using Viscosity. Once connected, I would connect to her screen using VNC. When connected through VPN her own access to Internet was severely limited because of VPN routing tables. With ScreenHero she points with her mouse where she has issues, and I can use mine to show her things on the screen. And no need to VPN anymore, yay!