This is a simple little app that monitors your clipboard, sends the contents (text only today, sorry - someone will mod it) via UDP multicast to the specified group multicast IP, and puts the data in the remote PCs clipboard. In summary, when you copy from one pc, you can paste on the other. It works great - and I know plenty of people who will use this at the office.
There are other apps like this, but they tend to be point to point instead of multicasting. The point to point apps whine when one client or the other go down, and take extra configuration. Plus, this one is good for any number of PCs.
The only issue I've had with it is that my WIFI router, and Daemon's, seems to not send UDP multicast packets over the waves to clients. The other direction works, the wireless NIC in the pc does send the packets, and they get to the router and broadcast. Thus a machine on WIFI seems to be able to send the clipboard, but not receive. I'm unclear on whether this is per spec, or just a "feature" of our routers.
No special key combos are needed to use the app - it monitors the existing keyboard and broadcasts it. Double click the systray icon and you can set the group IP, the port, and the TTL. If you don't know what these mean, tinker only with the port to separate yourself from other clients on your network.
No configuration is needed unless you want to seperate yourself on your LAN from others that may be running this. Just start it on both PCs, and it takes over from there!
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