Featured Freeware: CrossLoop
CrossLoop provides a quick, easy, and completely free way to give a colleague, a friend, or a relative access to your computer. Start the program, and your PC gets assigned a new 12-digit access code each time. Give that number to another user to virtually share your desktop. Once connected, that user will have full access to your machine.
The odd nature of sharing a desktop cursor and the inability to add multiple users makes CrossLoop not quite right for proper business presentations. However, the complete system access and 128-bit encrypted connection combine to create a great solution for low-budget, long-distance tech support. Guests can use any app and save files on your computer, as if they were sitting in front of the machine. No router configuration is required--a big plus. File transfers are now supported, but the purpose here remains collaboration: CrossLoop doesn't work without explicit permission from the host.
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We are currently focused on the one-on-one need for tech support/help and collaboration and we definitely don't see ourselves as a web conferencing service.
The file transfer feature - with no limits in terms of size of files/folders - is used frequently for tech support (providing a driver etc..) or even photosharing.
Please feel free to contact me at any time if you or your readers have questions.
Although, I have experienced some problems with CrossLoop as well, I enter the number that my girlfriend sends me over Pidgin and it tries to connect, but nothing else happens.
This only occurs sometimes, because sometimes it works well.
- by sufyanU May 23, 2008 12:08 AM PDT
- A complete, quick and easy to use product.
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