Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, Browsers
Vyew My PC easy online desktop sharing for anyone
Basically, go to the Vyew My PC web page and click start sharing my desktop. You will be given a unique, unguessable URL. You can then share that URL with anyone you'd like to share your desktop with. There are some features you need an account to use, but the basics are usable by anyone.
You can upload files to be shown on the Vyew My PC desktop, use the whiteboard features, chat and with registration, use audio/video features. You cannot however, view anything outside the Vyew My PC desktop area. So, if you want to switch to a new window and show a web page you are viewing, it's not going to show up unless you take screenshots and present those.
It moves smoothly and all the features seem to work. Now, I didn't go in and have a full-fledged sales presentation to a CEO or anything but I did show a powerpoint to two of my friends who logged in from two seperate locations.
My main concern was about security. Showing a powerpoint to my friends is quite a bit different than important company information. So, this is what I found out; the packet data for your session is not encrypted but the URLs seem to be unique enough that someone wouldn't just stumble into your meeting without being invited. SSL encryption is not offered publicly but could be a possibility for some clients.
The privacy policy is similar to one you would find on Google Docs as far as information shared during meetings.
The application is not open source but it can be used for free and enterprises can can license the technology and run it on their own infrastructure.
The only negative? Other users could manipulate the information I was presenting by using some of the whiteboard tools. I suppose if you were sharing with more mature people that could be a positive because they could add information if needed.
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James said 5:12PM on 8-08-2008
"Desktop Sharing" =/= "Whiteboarding". Still a neat app, I guess, but it's not VNC.
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Fred Thompson said 10:22AM on 8-10-2008
There was no statement that desktop sharing equates to whiteboarding nor was their any statement this is VNC.
You may as well complain it isn't two scoops of fudge ripple in a waffle cone.
Christina Clark said 5:14PM on 8-08-2008
Update: I played around with it some more and you CAN in fact let other users see your entire desktop. There is a toogle bar in the Vyew My PC that says "start sharing my desktop". Once you do that people logged in to your sessoin can see everything.
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Fred Thompson said 7:55AM on 8-09-2008
It's basically a repackaged Vyew.
mohd said 10:10AM on 8-10-2008
can you share the desktop after you close the browser?
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