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

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

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Post by socialist_coder »

samstave wrote: post #18
socialist_coder wrote: post #6

We've been using this instead of Skype and it's definitely better. Having your own mouse is awesome.

I haven't tried this yet, so forgive this ignorant question: I don't see the full value of just my own mouse cursor... Wouldnt it also be great if there wasa quick-fading text box that becomes opaques when I type something, then fades back to transparent with some delay? Is the assumption that everyonre is on a con call with the mouse? (I am not saying I don't see the value of a mouse cursor - I am just not seeing JU…

yeah, i think the assumption is that you are also on a conference call at the same time.

but i get your point, having a little quick chat thing integrated with screenhero would be good if you aren't also on a voice call.

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

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Post by kingnothing »

samstave wrote: post #18
socialist_coder wrote: post #6

We've been using this instead of Skype and it's definitely better. Having your own mouse is awesome.

I haven't tried this yet, so forgive this ignorant question: I don't see the full value of just my own mouse cursor... Wouldnt it also be great if there wasa quick-fading text box that becomes opaques when I type something, then fades back to transparent with some delay? Is the assumption that everyonre is on a con call with the mouse? (I am not saying I don't see the value of a mouse cursor - I am just not seeing JU…

Most of my team works remotely and we use this for pair programming all the time. It shares both the mouse and full keyboard control.

We use it in conjunction with Skype for voice.

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

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Post by imilligan »

I spent 4 months working in an all pair programming-all the time dev shop and was frustrated on a daily basis not being able to start and stop pairing seamlessly. This looks absolutely killer for solving that problem. I love collaborating on code, but having to both jump on the same workstation on and off again can really be a bummer. Looking forward to trying this out with a few of my co-workers.

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

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Post by frk1206 »

busted wrote: post #20

Per app sharing is great. I found myself wanting the sound coming from the app to be shared as well.

Thats actually possible right now! Well system sound is. Its disabled in the release version as its a little painful to setup but if you are interested you can email us and we can guide you through it. everyone (at) screenhero (dot) com

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

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Post by jckt »

rickhanlonii wrote: post #11
DanielRibeiro wrote: post #4

Ironically, the techcrunch article had much better info[1]. The discussion on HN from 4 weeks ago was pretty good too[2] [1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/11/screenhero-yc/ [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5202486

That is quite coincidental .

I believe irony's the right term. You'd expect techcrunch to give you the hyped-up start-up journalistic drivel, but instead you find good quality content.

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

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Post by itslogic »

imilligan wrote: post #23

I spent 4 months working in an all pair programming-all the time dev shop and was frustrated on a daily basis not being able to start and stop pairing seamlessly. This looks absolutely killer for solving that problem. I love collaborating on code, but having to both jump on the same workstation on and off again can really be a bummer. Looking forward to trying this out with a few of my co-workers.

May I ask at what point do you say "hey everybody, this is not working". But rather spend 4 months at a task which you were frustrated daily?
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