Comments on: Mac friendly online conference service

By: Blake P.

Blake P. — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:17:45 +0000

These suggestions are solid. I am sure that there will be many more players enter this segment this year.

By: Michael Sampson

Michael Sampson — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:03:22 +0000

I’d second Glance, as long as you don’t plan to switch presenters at any time during the session. It can’t do that.

By: debbie landa

debbie landa — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:01:45 +0000

Jeff, you know i have a huge list of these companies……why don’t you ever ask me. Vyew is awesome, i’m inviting them to present at Under the Radar and there is a new one called Yugma.com.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:09:38 +0000

LOL Sig, no I have not been through one of your online demos and I am surely less enlightened as a result!

Christopher, thanks for the Vyew followup.

By: sig

sig — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:49:47 +0000

Hi Jeff, of course, you never had to sit through one of my online demos – from my Mac

I’m using VNC – OK, have to ask the other party to download a free client – but it’s free, peer-to-peer, works nicely, any operating system, and you can use it to remote administer you aunt’s machine when you do not use it for web demos…

It’s so standard that you’ll find that port (5900) preset on your router at home when you want to set up a virtual server.

Actually, found that quite a few had it already on their machines, the more geekly inclined of course!

Try these:
Mac OSX: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
Windows: http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/download.html

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:46:51 +0000

Normally, I do not comment on these things, but since Zoli said I would, well, I cannot make Zoli a fibber now can I?

Yes, Vyew works on Macs. You should use Safari since Firefox on the Mac may or may not use Java correctly.

Christopher

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:31:23 +0000

Vyew is a great product and they added Mac support – I haven’t tested it, but my guess they will soon comment here:-)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:30:30 +0000

cool, thanks. BTW, it’s now known as Adobe Connect.

By: Darren Ehlers

Darren Ehlers — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:26:02 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Macromedia’s Breeze works beautifully on a mac (as host and participant). I use it all the time.

-Darren