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Sep 15 2010

The LogMeIn Dropbox trick

logmeindropbox 318x122 The LogMeIn Dropbox trick

In a previous video, I reviewed LogMeIn Ignition and mentioned that it would be really handy in those situations where you’re out on the road away from your computer and you receive an email from a client on your iPhone or iPad saying that they desperately need a file sent to them…I file that is both too large to email and not on your iPhone.

With LogMeIn and Dropbox, you can actually manipulate your home computer from your iDevice and end up with a link that you can email your client so that they can quickly access that file without you having to race home to send it to them.

In today’s video, I show you just how that is done while also giving a quick plug to YemuZip.

No Flash? No problem—click here!»
The LogMeIn Dropbox trick

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Aug 20 2010

Xtand and LogMeIn Ignition

I give credit to my buddy Brent Flink ( @indivisual ) for showing me LogMeIn and it’s super cool (and somewhat overpriced at $29.99 US) iPhone/iPad app LogMeIn Ignition.

LogMeIn is a web-based VNC service that allows you to install its free software on your Mac (or PC) and not only access, but control that computer from a supported web browser. Unfortunately, though Mobile Safari on the iPad and iPhone is one of those supported browsers, when you try to control the cursor within LogMeIn’s web-based VNC, you only end up controlling the view of the screen in the browser.

So, in order to control your Mac at home from your iPad in a coffee shop, you first need to have signed up for a FREE LogMeIn account, installed and activated the software on your Mac. Then you can share your Mac through LogMeIn. Now, when you launch LogMeIn Ignition on your iPad or iPhone, you can control your home computer from the road.

My favorite thing I’ve done with LogMeIn is use it to help me send files to clients that I couldn’t keep with me on my iPhone or iPad. While controlling my home Mac, I save the file to my Dropbox folder. This sets Dropbox to work making that file available to me online via the FREE Dropbox App on my iPad or iPhone. I still don’t actually have the file on those devices, but I can get a link to where it has been stored online by Dropbox that I can paste in an email on my iPhone and send it to my client. Problem solved.

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My little joke at the start of the video below made use of a very cool iPhone stand called the Xtand.1 It’s a nice iMac-like stand that will hold the iPhone 3G, 3GS or 4. It sells for about $39.99 US2

As I mentioned at the end of the video, there is another service called TeamViewer that offers many of the same features of LogMeIn but offers FREE lite versions of its apps for iPhone and iPad …though its full-featured apps sell for $99.99 US for the iPhone version and $139.99 US for the iPad version. Suddenly, $29.99 US doesn’t seem so bad to me.

  1. I’m actually not sure if I’m supposed to pronounce it “EKS-tand” or “ztand”…clearly I chose “EKS-tand” [↩]
  2. the one I used in the video is available for $35.99 CDN if you can get to MacStation in Abbotsford before they sell it icon biggrin Xtand and LogMeIn Ignition [↩]

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Apr 27 2009

Catch and Release– Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

Skitch

I must apologize for the fact that this app is still in invite-only beta. For those lucky enough to get in on the beta, its become the application for shooting and sharing their desktop. Skitch takes screenshots, allows you to edit the image and then share it via your MySkitch account.

skitch Catch and Release Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

Skitch includes many image-enhancing tools adding circles, arrows and text to images. There are other useful features like capture from iSight, iPhoto integration and a very slick interface. This is a beta application, and I have to say 3 of my first 5 screen caps crashed the app.

Jing

Jing is another shoot-and-share application. This one is cross platform and aims to integrate into the OS. Jing allows not only still image capture, but video capture as well.

jing Catch and Release Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

I didn’t have the most success with Jing, I also experienced crashes on capture, but your experience may be better. The promise of recording real-time video of your desktop is worth the shot.

ImageWell

My long-time favorite capture-and-share application has recently been updated. Among the new features is the ability to upload to Flickr, ImageShack and SmugMug. ImageWell is the only one of this week’s picks that is Panther compatible.

LogMeIn

This isn’t a screen cap utility, but it does allow you to share your screen. A preview version of this remote desktop tool is available now for Mac. It runs as a menu extra and allows you to share your desktop with others (and vice versa) via the ‘net.

That wraps our look at screen sharing. Time to tidy that desktop and get social.

Brian

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