Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Shareware
Maxivista, yet another screen sharing app
by David Chartier Oct 5th 2005 at 7:30PM
On a Command N vidcast I was watching today they mentioned a display/PC sharing app for Windows by the name of Maxivista. This handy solution can turn spare PC's into extra monitors for a primary PC, as well as act as a K/M switch or a screen cloner. It looks like a pretty flexible app, and there's quite a bit of support and a large FAQ section to get you started.
There is a 14 day, feature-limited demo available, and it appears as of this writing that the app is on sale for $30, down from its typical price of $50.
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Tony said 10:07AM on 10-06-2005
"Yet another screen sharing app"--what other app does what Maxivista does? I use Maxivista, but it's not perfect, so I'd love to check out an alternative. I'm not aware of any, though.
Maxivista is NOT remote control software, it lets other computers act as a second (or third or forth) monitor by sending video driver commands across the network.
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SPowers said 10:23AM on 10-06-2005
Synergy kinda does the same thing. It basically allows you to use the mouse,keyboard on 2 computers like a KVM and the only thing you need to do to switch to the alternate computer is move your mouse to the side of the screen.
Sort of the same... other than the seperate screens belong to seperate computers.
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Tony said 11:32AM on 10-06-2005
I've used Synergy, and it's totally different. You can't drag a window from one monitor to another with Synergy, and you can with Maxivista.
Synergy is K(notV)M software. Maxivista adds another monitor. Totally different products.
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SPowers said 11:05AM on 10-07-2005
thats what I meant by "kinda" the same and that the seperate monitors belonged to seperate computers.
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