Anyone who’s been to an O’Reilly conference has seen the shared-note-taking wonder that is Hydra SubEthaEdit (most sucktastic renaming EVAR.) The wonder of Rendezvous, Apple’s branding for zeroconf wireless networking, drives Hydra, and I’ve always wondered when that pattern would become more widely supported, both in the sense of moree tools and more platforms. Now I know the answer — it’s now.
Porchdog software has a cross-platform implementation of zeroconf called Howl (OS X, Linux, BSD, Windows 2K+) and Spike, a cross-platform shared clipboard (OS X, Windows 2K+).
When you share a Spike clipboard, you see a clipping as soon as it is copied on the source machine. You can immediately drag that clipping into your own document on your own machine, and save valuable time.
It’s all open source, and you get free yummy candy for trying it. (Not really about the candy, but all the other stuff is true.) So go download it already — its v cool, and is part and parcel of the ‘software that does less, well’ pattern that is making me breathe a huge sigh of relief that maybe my life won’t be wasted hunting particular features in the sub-sub-sub-menus of giant hulking tools. [Many-to-Many]