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September 2003, Week 2

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Lheureux [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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> I'm looking for a way to enable an external user to view 
> what's happening on
> my PC. The ultimate aim is to run a customer-viewable demo of an
> application. I have a budget of $0. Can anyone offer suggestions ?

One program many people overlook simply because they don't know they have it is Microsoft's own "netmeeting" product [umm, came "standard" on win9x I think? certainly with "office..."]

One of the buried gems of this is a whiteboard/collaboration mode that allows you to "share" an application with the meeting members -- even if the other members of the meeting don't have the application involved!  [be careful, though -- it will even let them "assume control" of your mouse if you don't set it correctly...]

I would NOT recommend running this on a low-bandwidth connection -- basically it ships "what you see" on your screen as a graphic that gets displayed on the recipient(s) computer(s), along with "move the mouse here" type commands;  remote users [if they assume control of the mouse] cause mouse-move and keyboard events to "appear" on the originators computer [hence no actual need for the recipient to have the program] which then repaints the screen and resends it...

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