Top 5 desktop sharing tools
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 at 8:43 am by Nicholas Mead
A while back, I wrote a blog post singing the praises of the excellent Crossloop desktop sharing app. What I particularly liked was the fact that it is completely free, the ease of use although I was a bit disappointed by the time lag when sharing two screens. However, since then I’ve discovered a number of other desktop sharing apps that do the same job with varying results. Some I’ve found quicker others slower, but in the end, nothing that was completely perfect. My top 5 so far:
- Crossloop - Still the best by virtue of the fact it’s free and so easy to use
- Festoon - An interesting Skype complement for sharing desktops
- WinRemotePC - Desktop sharing with a professional feel
- ShowMyPC - An open source solution although tricky to configure
- TeamViewer - Fast sharing and file transfer facility
Posted at 11:20 pm on Nov 14th
Nick - try the new version of CrossLoop, 1.2, we have out now. It has a feature to change color quality to enhance the speed.
By default, it auto selects based on the connection but if you are doing basic things and color is not that important, 8 bit color quality senhances the speed in multiples.
To get there, click on the Gear icon on the UI and then choose change color quality.
You can go to our site and overinstall.
Thanks