Software Physics

I work remotely a lot and frequently need to show remote users something I’m doing on my machine. To do this I wrote a simple program to capture my desktop then upload it to my website where viewers could take a look. I automated the viewer end with a little Javascript so, as I put images up, the viewers’ screens update. I called the application Simple Web Sharing or SWS. The tool was really only useful to me or technical folks who owned a website where they could post screenshots. I recently modified the application to use Amazon’s S3 so now you don’t need to figure out the website end of things. I think the tools are pretty useful and now interesting to a wider audience so I’m making them available.

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