Simidude

Simidude is a cross platform network clipboard and Drag&Drop file transfer tool. It runs on Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7), Intel Mac and on Linux. You would use Simidude, if:

- you need to work at two or more computers or virtual machines and would like to synchronize clipboard data throughout these connected machines.

- you need to copy files or directories between multiple computers and don't have a network share and don't want to use an USB stick.

- you need to quickly copy images from the clipboard to a file.

To setup Simidude is very easy. You download the installer for your operating system and run the installer. When you open Simidude the first time it will show you a preference panel with sensible defaults. You can leave them and just click OK. Simidude then starts to look for other Simidude instances running in your network. If it finds others and they belong to the same Simidude Group (see preferences) and the password is right it connects to these. Everything is done without configuration on your part. Simidude will then synchronize already clipped entries from one client with all connected clients. So no matter when a client joins, it will always see the whole picture.

What is new in this release:

• An embedded HTTP server. The embedded HTTP server allows you to access Simidude entries from any machines that has a browser installed. This is useful if you want to access Simidude but have no permission to install your own software, maybe because you're setting up your client's machine and want to use Simidude to transfer data back and forth. Here is a more in depth article about this new exiting feature.
• Save compressed. Simidude now offers a way to quickly save any text, image, file or directory in ZIP compressed format. To do this simply right click on an entry and choose "Save compressed...". That is actually the most efficient way to get some text stuffed into a compressed file: copy the text passage to clipboard, after it occurs in Simidude click "Save compressed...", change the file name if you want and hit that big "Save" button. That's it you're done.
• Restore the Clipboard after a reboot. There is now an option in the preferences, if set the current content of the clipboard will be saved to disk. After a restart Simidude checks if the clipboard is still empty. If that is the case the saved entry will be restored. It was a bit hard to test because I didn't find a way to really empty the clipboard (on Mac) other then rebooting the machine...
• Some minor GUI improvements. There is no Exit-Button in the toolbar any more that might have caused trouble.
• Finally there are 64bit releases for Windows and Linux. I have tested them on Windows 64bit and Ubuntu 64. If you have a 64 bit machine please make sure to try them out and report back any misbehavior.
• A list of IP addresses or network names to connect after launch. In the preferences you can now add IP addresses or network names of machines you wish to always connect to. This option is intended to be used to connect to machines in different subnets or in those rare cases when your network configuration prohibits the sending of broadcast messages which Simidude uses to find other clients.
• The modifier key can be changed. Available options are: "Ctrl" on Windows or "Apple" on Mac, "Shift" and "Alt".
• The modifier key for instance alternates the behavior of a double click on a Simidude entry. Without holding the modifier key the entry will be opened in the chosen application (see below), holding the modifier key activates that clicked entry (puts it into the clipboard)
• Select an application for opening Simidude entries. In the preferences you can now set an application for each entry type (Text, Image or File/Folder). When double clicking of a Simidude entry that data will then be opened within the specified application.

Limitations:

30-day trial, no feature limitations