You Have to Check Out Spike! By michael | April 14th, 2004
I just added a little note about Spike, the networked clipboard, to my earlier technology post . But now that I’ve installed it I have to give it some more light. Simply stated, Spike is the sh!t. (Apple’s Rendezvous technology gets a lot of the credit too.) I’ve only used it for a few minutes and I’m already hooked. Now I can easily cut & paste between my desktop Windoze 2000 machine and my Windoze XP notebook. You can also share between Windows and Macintosh. The bast part is that all I had to do was install Spike on both machine. No configuration, no logging in — it just worked straight out of ‘the box’. If you have multiple machines you must check Spike out.
Humm, this looks kinda of cool. I may try it out just so I can stick my tongue out at my Mac head friends and say “I can share with you…” LOL
Free Network Clipboard Software
My brother was kind enough to direct me toward a fine piece of software that allows you to, in essence, share clipboards across a network. It is called Spike and it is available for free. Prior to Spike, I was…