Easy Screen Sharing with CrossLoop: Your Folks Will Thank You
I recently came across a great new service. It’s called CrossLoop. It’s a program that lets you remotely share your computer. Why would you want to do that? I’ve found this most useful for those times when you need quick, remote tech support. If you are anything like me, you’ve got parents hours away who keep calling with computer problems. Now all they have to do is install CrossLoop and you can fix their computer from your own home. Genius.
Of course, programs like CrossLoop aren’t new by any means. But CrossLoop makes it easy. No router configurations, port forwarding or anything like that. CrossLoop actually starts a 128-bit secure Peer to Peer connection between the two computers. Make sure you’ve got high speed internet, of course, or you won’t be able to use the software. And sorry Macs, it’s for Windows only.
To connect, you simply use the terminal pictured above. There are two main tabs. In the first one you type of the name of the CrossLoop you are connecting to, as well as the access code, which they can make up or have randomly generated (and no, the access code in the image won’t work, nice try). To share your computer, you type in your desired name and access code, then give that info to the connecting party. Viola! You’re connected.
CrossLoop is still in beta phase, but they are building quite a service. They recently raised $3 million in Series A financing and rolled out a few new web services. They’ve released a free account you can sign up for that will track your usage statistics. You can even download a widget that will let you promote your remote-CrossLoop skills. I haven’t used it, so I can’t comment much about it, but it looks pretty cool.
Keep an eye on CrossLoop, they’ve got my recommendation. Check them out next time you need some easy screen sharing.
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This article was written by John Kolbert on December 18, 2007 and filed as Reviews. Get the latest articles by subscribing to the RSS feed. This article, including images and attachments, is property of John Kolbert and is not to be republished or translated without prior written permission.
John - this small team at CrossLoop sure appreciates your review and recommendation. This support by bringing us to your readers is very inspirational.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you or your readers have questions.
The next time, I hope to see your CrossLoop Badge on this blog :)
Mrinal’s last blog post..CrossLoop Raises $3 Million, Releases Web Service
@Mrinal Thanks for stopping by! With all the “Web 2.0″ startups, its nice to see one that’s actually useful.
I access Windows lusers from my Ubuntu and hellp them out! Crossloop works great on Wine..