Collaborative Editing with Rendezvous
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Notice that once you start editing your document the button turns blue (see Figure 11), signaling that you have gained control of the editing rights of the document. Meantime, other users will see a red button, which means the document is currently modified by someone (see Figure 12). To release the editing right of the document so that others can edit it, click on the blue button and it changes to green (see Figure 13), which means the document is free to be edited by others.
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One cool feature of iStorm is the shared chalkboard. To activate the shared chalkboard, click the Chalkboard button (see Figure 14). (I noticed that window has some problems with the layout of the various controls, so you may need to do some adjustments before you can see the screenshot shown in Figure 14.)
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Another cool feature is the video grabber, which allows you to use a video camera (see my previous article on how to use a webcam in Panther) to take snapshots of yourself. To take a snapshot of yourself, just drag and drop the Grab Video window (its content) onto your shared document. You can even use the snapshot as the background of your chalkboard (see Figure 15).
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Finally, you can also do the usual chatting stuff on iStorm (see Figure 16).
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Final Thoughts
The nice thing about using a Mac is that you always have an abundance of innovative software to make your life easier and more pleasant too. SubEthaEdit and iStorm are two applications that I am going to use to collaborate with coworkers. So give them a try and let me know what you think.
Wei-Meng Lee (Microsoft MVP) http://weimenglee.blogspot.com is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions http://www.developerlearningsolutions.com, a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest Microsoft technologies.
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SubEthaEdit at O'reilly conference
2003-12-11 15:07:30 jamesreynolds [Reply | View]
Many who attended the O'Reilly 2003 Mac OS X Conference saw SubEthaEdit at work. In many sessions, someone who start writing notes and share it. Any time they missed something that was said, they would put question marks. Someone else would then go and erase the question marks and put the correct notes. Pretty powerful stuff. Because of SubEthaEdit, I have some very detailed notes of many sessions. I didn't even have to be in a session either, since everyone was on the same network... ;)
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SubEthaEdit at Mac OS X Conference
2003-12-11 15:05:40 jamesreynolds [Reply | View]
Many who attended the O'Reilly 2003 Mac OS X Conference saw SubEthaEdit at work. In many sessions, someone who start writing notes and share it. Any time they missed something that was said, they would put question marks. Someone else would then go and erase the question marks and put the correct notes. Pretty powerful stuff. Because of SubEthaEdit, I have some very detailed notes of many sessions. I didn't even have to be in a session either, since everyone was on the same network... ;)
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SubEthaEdit at Mac OS X Conference
2003-12-11 15:04:06 jamesreynolds [Reply | View]
Many who attended the O'Reilly 2003 Mac OS X Conference saw SubEthaEdit at work. In many sessions, someone who start writing notes and share it. Any time they missed something that was said, they would put question marks. Someone else would then go and erase the question marks and put the correct notes. Pretty powerful stuff. Because of SubEthaEdit, I have some very detailed notes of many sessions. I didn't even have to be in a session either, since everyone was on the same network... ;)
