Teleport 0.9.5pr4 review

teleport is a simple prefpane utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 523K Developer: abyssoft Price: $0.00 Updated: 18 Sep 2006

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teleport is a simple prefpane utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs.Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers.

teleport is currently a Public Preview.

teleport uses Rendezvous to find available hosts.For controlling them, it catches the events of the master computer, sends me on the network using UDP, and uses some native CoreGraphics calls on the slave computer.For pasteboard synching, teleport uses TCP for reliable transfers.

teleport uses Bonjour to find available hosts. For controlling them, it catches the events of the master computer, sends me on the network using TCP, and uses some native CoreGraphics calls on the slave computer.

Warning: teleport does NOT encrypt data transfers. Therefore, be sure to have a safe network before sending sensitive keystrokes, such as passwords, on a slave computer.

What's New:
Encryption: keystrokes, pasteboard and file transfers are now safe on the network, thanks to strong encryption. See below for more information.
Files drag & drop: files and folders can now be drag & dropped between the hosts to copy them. See below for more information.
Wake On LAN: if you're using teleport on an Ethernet network and that your shared Mac supports it, teleport can try to wake a disconnected host before controlling it.
New Trusted Hosts pane: manage your trusted hosts and change the trust setting of your shared Mac.
Custom modifiers for switching: choose between cmd, alt, ctrl, shift and caps lock.
Custom modifiers for pasteboard sharing: synchronize the pasteboard only when the relevant modifier is down.
Background images: see the real background images of the remote hosts in the Layout tab of the teleport Preferences Pane, to identify more quickly the shared hosts.
Adjustable switch delay: the delay before the switch can now be graphically adjusted in the Options tab of the teleport Preferences Pane.
Prevent sleep of main Mac when controlling.
More efficient method to get events of the main Mac.
Some polishing on the Layout and Options tab of the Preferences Pane.
Propose to ask for trust again when authentication fails on a paired Mac.
Better compatibility with Fast User Switching and desktop managers.
Many other misc improvements and fixes.