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• Mar 30 2009 2:54pm
  Rick Truell (Visitor)
  This sounds just like what I'm looking for...considering the sudden unreliability of the freeware program I'm currently using for a similar thing :-(
  
  I checked the web site but couldn't find any mention of an upgrade policy. What is your upgrade policy, both to a new minor version and to a new major version?
• Mar 30 2009 6:25pm
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Hi Rick,
  
  thanks for your kind words! Please go ahead and download Simidude- there is a 30-day trial available so you can find out for your self if it is for you.
  
  Thanks for the upgrade policy comment. I'm about to incorporate this and other comments into a future version of the website.
  
  The upgrade policy is as follow:
  You are entitled to free updates within the bought major version. So if you buy 1.2.0 you are entitled to received all updates until 2.0 for free. You will get a discount for the 2.0 version.
  
  The next version will be a 1.3.0 (if no hotfix is required for the current version). So you can expect some 1.x versions until I switch to 2.0.
  
  If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to contact me at contact@agynamix.de or tuhlmann@agynamix.de
  
  Thanks,
  Torsten.
• Apr 1 2009 1:28am
  Rick Truell (Visitor)
  Thanks for the fast response, Torsten. I'm glad to see you have what is a fairly "standard" upgrade policy.
  
  I've already downloaded the versions for Windows and Linux. Don't have a Mac...yet :-) Now all I need to do is find a way to create a couple of extra hours in each day so I have time to check the program out :-(
• Apr 1 2009 5:21am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Great to hear, Rick!
  
  Please don't hesitate to send me comments or suggestions to contact@agynamix.de.
  
  Have a great day,
  Torsten.
• Apr 5 2009 3:04am
  Alexander Deliyannis (Frequent Flyer)
  I've been trying the program for a few days and have been sufficiently impressed by its functionality to register it today. There are a couple of rough edges (for example, I would expect seamless drag-n-drop operation with files from Simidude, but one has to 'download' contents first) but overall it remains the most convenient way I have found to move data around my multi-OS home network. Prior to this I had a USB drive on my router and used FTP to read/write files between Windows and Linux.
  
  I am also impressed by the generous 'one license per cluster' scheme; coupled with today's BdJ promotion it's a bargain.
  
  I have a question: if I buy a license for my office, will there be a conflict with my laptop which is used in both home and office locations? (I have already registered this at my home cluster.)
• Apr 5 2009 5:36am
  Graham Rhind (Visitor)
  Yes, a superbly simple and effective piece of software, which will really save me the hassle of constantly having to cut and paste information into OneNote and then "recapture" it on my other network machines.
• Apr 5 2009 7:33am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Thanks for your kind words!
  
  Alexander: There is no conflict between a home and company cluster. Just make sure you either use the same group name in the Simidude settings if you want you laptop to join both networks or use a unique one if you want it to stay out of it. Licensewise there is no conflict.
• Apr 5 2009 11:21am
  Patrick J. (Visitor)
  Hi Torsten,
  
  just ordered it, a big thanks for this very useful product!
  
  As Alexander D. said, the 'one license per cluster' scheme is very kind.
  
  Please keep on the good work.
  
  Regards from Germany,
  Patrick
• Apr 5 2009 4:43pm
  Alexander Deliyannis (Frequent Flyer)
  Torsten thanks for the clarification; I have now bought the product for my office as well and, as you said, my laptop worked fine in the network there. Brilliant!
  
  For a future update, please consider enhancing the drag-n-drop operation of files (i.e. when one drags-n-drops they are automatically downloaded). In the current behaviour it seems counter-intuitive that simply nothing happens.
• Apr 5 2009 6:58pm
  Duane Moore (Visitor)
  I posted to the wrong product. Here's what I mean to say here:
  
  I clicked the Buy Now icon and was taken to an order page that said "AGYNAMIX Simidude $9.95 Your special Bits du Jour price."
  
  I entered my credit card information and placed the order and the price was changed to $35. The confirmation email shows the price at $35, NOT $9.95.
  
  This is serious.
• Apr 5 2009 7:09pm
  Dexter B (Visitor)
  Duane,
  
  I entered my credit card information and
  placed the order and the price was changed to $35.
  The confirmation email shows the price at $35, NOT $9.95.
  
  I just checked my confirmation email and it is correct: $9.95.
  
  HTH
• Apr 5 2009 7:16pm
  Duane Moore (Visitor)
  Dexter,
  
  I didn't quite understand the distinction between "confirmation email" and "confirmation email" with the two prices. Everything I have says $35, even clicking on the link to get an official receipt.
  
  Bits du Jour,
  
  I'm not sure I'll want to buy products here again.
• Apr 6 2009 3:58am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Duana,
  
  I sent you an email on this matter. I'd like to refund the $25,05 you paid too much to you via PayPal.
  
  Sorry for the hassle,
  Torsten.
• Apr 6 2009 9:33am
  Ben Long (Visitor)
  Since there was a problem with the $35 charge for this product will you be offering it again soon at the advertise price of $9.95. I didn't buy it last night because of the comments received. Thank you
• Apr 6 2009 10:01am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Ben,
  
  please email me directly at contact@agynamix.de. I believe we can cut a deal.
  
  Thanks,
  Torsten.
• Apr 6 2009 5:07pm
  Duane Moore (Visitor)
  Torsten straightened everything out.
  
  It's an excellent program. Very useful if you have PCs on a local area network.
• Oct 22 2009 1:05am
  Michael R (Visitor)
  I like the idea of your program, but have a question about it:
  
  If I would have a registered licence for Simidude, but the person I want to share some objects with, does not have one, I would have to convince him, to buy your product too, to be able to share files, right?
  
  There is no such thing like the program does work, if at least one of the sender/receiver has a valid license, is it?
  
  If it would be, I could tell a (short time) customer to download your (not licensed) program and I could used my licensed one and we would be able to share objects with it. But he would not be able to share it with someone else (not licensed).
• Oct 22 2009 2:10am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Hi Michael,
  
  Simidude is licensed per network group or cluster. That means, for all computers you want to connect together and share information you need ONE license. However if you want to create several network groups you need a license per group.
  
  In your case you one need ONE LICENSE.
  
  The program comes with a 30 day trial so you can download it right away and test it with the other person...
  
  Kind Regards,
  Torsten.
• Oct 22 2009 5:35am
  John M (Visitor)
  I've bought this software some months ago. It really does what it says and it's convenient and functional in various scenarios. I have it on all my PCs although I don't load it on startup. I open it when needed because I don't like something to constantly monitor my clipboard ( that's just me and my madness about security ).
  
  In general a great piece of software that provides great functions for all of us that have a local lan. It's also really easy to use and configure.
• Oct 22 2009 2:17pm
  Patrick J. (Visitor)
  As already registered user for some time now, you get a valuable and easy to use software with fast and helpful support. I really recommend Simidude.
• Oct 22 2009 8:07pm
  Berry Taylor (Visitor)
  Would I be able to use Simidude as a mechanism to share information with my daughter who is at college on an entirely different network than my local 192.168 home network?
• Oct 23 2009 2:52am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Hi Berry,
  it would probably work with some tricks but it was not made for this. Try using the free version of Dropbox for Internet wide file exchange.
  
  Torsten.
• Oct 29 2009 1:08am
  Michael R (Visitor)
  Just saw, you are offering your program for different platforms.
  
  Does that mean, the personal license is valid for all of them and can the objects be exchanged between computers with different OS?
• Oct 29 2009 3:04am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Hi Michael,
  
  yes, one personal license is valid on all supported operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac).
  
  Even more, one license is valid for more than one computer simultaneously, provided you use these computers all in one Simidude group (they are meant to talk together). So you need one license for each group you plan to have. In almost all cases people only run one group with 2 or more computers.
  
  Hope that helps,
  Torsten.
• Oct 29 2009 10:48am
  Peter Dr (Visitor)
  Hello Agynamix:
  
  Does this mean that the items that are copied to the clipboard of one of the computers in the Simidude group, that is currently being monitered, are uploaded to a server somewhere on the Internet? If so, what are the privacy policies and rules of the server and/or company that is being used for this sharing?
  
  Thank you for your help.
  
  Peter
• Oct 29 2009 11:20am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Hi Peter,
  
  no data is being uploaded to the internet. Simidude is meant to work in your local network. It does not have a server anywhere. Rather when Simidude starts on one computer it checks out if other Simidude instances are running in this same network and then connects to them if they share the same group name and password.
  
  There are ways however to connect to other computers outside of your local lan, for instance if you are running multiple subnets (larger company) and want to connect one computer in one lan to another lan. However that's only if you set it up. By default no data is leaving your network.
  
  Hope that clears up things.
  
  Have a great day,
  Torsten.
• Oct 29 2009 8:49pm
  Jon Koerner (Superstar)
  Would like to purchase, but cannot get the trial version to install on ANY computer - all of them get error message:
  C:\Program Files\Simidude\lib\simidude.jar
  Could not create this file. Shall I try again?
  
  If I say yes try again, get same error.
  If I say no, get a different error:
  java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -626056732
  to which I click OK, then it says Setup has completed, but if I try to run Simidude then, I get this error:
  Couldn't load main class.
  
  I have the latest JAVA Runtime installed here.
  
  Bitsdujour deal expires in 3 hours, please help!
  
  P.S. (I tried earlier today to get help with this -- first, the simidude.com site would not load at all for some time. Then finally it would load. Tried email to torsten@agynamix.de, it bounced back undeliverable.)
• Oct 30 2009 2:44am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Hi Jon,
  
  I got your helpdesk message and I'm trying to resolve the problem. I'll get in touch with you.
  
  Torsten.

• Jul 31 2010 8:54pm
  John Q (Visitor)
  Hi
  I tried this before but it was not for me.  I currently found Drop Box to be the perfect solution for me except I pay $10 a month for 50GB of space.  Could you make this program seamlessly sync a folder between several computers?  To have just one working folder to save everything to and then every working folder on every computer is synced to be identical.  I don't want to think about manually saving to all my other computers. 
• Aug 1 2010 2:10am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  John, thanks for your comment! Currently Simidude requires some work under the hood to sync folders- and to remember a sync-folder after a restart. So with the current release this is not possible.
  
  I have thought of that feature before but I was not sure how many people would like it.
  I will set up a blog post with proposed Simidude 2.0 features and I would very much like you to comment on it. If I may I'll send a short notice to the email address you set here once the blog post is up.
  Thanks,
  Torsten.
• Aug 2 2010 1:54am
  Alexander Deliyannis (Frequent Flyer)
  Just a word of praise for Simidude, a tool so useful that I can't imagine how I used to work in networked computers without it. Also, Torsten's support is first class. I bought Simidude for both my home and office networks in last year's BdJ promotion. It's been working fine ever since, with updates making it more flexible without bloating it.
• Aug 2 2010 3:15am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Alexander, thanks for the kind words! It's very encouraging for me to hear back from customers!
  Just a short note from the developer trenches: I'm currently experimenting with cross platform hotkey support. Just today I got it working on the Mac and I plan to support global hotkeys for Windows, Linux and Mac- 32 or 64 bit- all the same way.
• Aug 5 2010 4:06am
  Rajeev Dugar (Visitor)
  Do I need licence for each of the PCs or MACs on the network from where I intend to copy files or licences are required only for computers which need to access other computers on the network and transfer data. Also whether this can fetch data from Network storage drives or devices. Also whether I can print to a network printer over the network and the internet. Is it possible to access other computers at a remote location through internet and fetch information from them. An early reply will be helpful. 
• Aug 5 2010 4:37am
  Diego Fernandez (Visitor)
  Hi,
  
  Do you plan to add support to Windows 7 64bit in a near future?. If so, I will purchase a license now and wait for that implementation.
  
  Thanks,
  Diego Fernandez
  SEO Spain
  www.unoentremil.com
• Aug 5 2010 4:39am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Hi Rajeev,
  
  you would only need one license to connect your PC and Mac. Basically you need one license per user no matter how many computers that users works with.
  
  As to the other questions I'm afraid Simidude is not the right tool for that. Simidude is made to connect computers in a local network. You can though break out of a local network by hard wiring a certain IP address you want to connect to. But for the process of connecting computers over the internet a tool like Dropbox is better suited.
  
  Kind Regards,
  Torsten.
• Aug 5 2010 5:04am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Diego,
  
  actually there is a Windows 7 64-bit version out there (http://www.agynamix.de/download/14).
  
  It is identical with the 32 bit version except the global hotkeys don't work yet- but I'm working on that.
  
  Please download the version from the link above (it's also linked on the Simidude download page) and let me know if this version works for you.
  
  Kind Regards,
  Torsten.
• Aug 5 2010 6:26am
  Michael Crosson (Rising Star)
  This would be a useful utility for me, but I am having problems with it. 
  
  It only seems to be working one way -- I can transfer files from my (XP) desktop to my (Win 7) laptop but not from the laptop to the desktop.  Files copied from the laptop do show up on the desktop's clipboard properly, but when I go to launch them, I get the error, "The Client with the Address 169.xxx.xx.xxx cannot be reached.  Maybe the client is no longer running?"  In fact the client is still running on the laptop normally.  I have Norton Internet Security on the Laptop (but not the Desktop) but temporarily turned off the firewall and Intrusion Prevention and it is still not working.  I "allowed" the program to access the network unrestricted.  Any help would be appreciated.  The documentation troubleshooting does not address this issue and I didn't see anything on the forum.  Thanks!
• Aug 5 2010 6:34am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Michael,
  
  do both machines use the same subnet (for instance 169.1.1.x - they differ only in the last number)? This behavior usually occurs if one machine is available through a NAT (like maybe, a virtual machine). The machine behind the NAT can see into the rest of your network but the rest of your network cannot look into the NAT. Could this be the case?
  
  If there are still problems please open a ticket at http://helpdesk.agynamix.de/index.php?pg=request to make communication more efficient.
  
  Thanks,
  Torsten.
• Aug 5 2010 6:43am
  Michael Crosson (Rising Star)
  I have had issues trying to make these two computers work together with regard to file transfers.  In fact, they do not appear to be using the same subnet.  The laptop is 169.xxx.xx.xxx and the desktop is 192.xxx.x.xxx.  So, perhaps this is the problem.
  
  I will open a trouble ticket as you suggest.
• Aug 5 2010 7:02am
  Benjamin Genevay (Bright Spark)
  Do you have a solution for copy/paste from various machines accessed through RDP? I means if I access 2 (or more) Windows PC from a PC using RDP, CTRL-C is disabled! I hoped that your software will help me but it's not the case. Or maybe I have not found how to do this. Thank you for your answer.
• Aug 5 2010 7:21am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Benjamin, I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you saying that, when connected through RDP, you cannot press CTRL-C on the remote computer and thus you cannot copy anything to the clipboard?
  You could try to mark the text you want to copy and drag it over Simidude. That would not write it into the remote clipboard but it would effectively distribute it to all connected Simidudes. You may though test with different editors because the editor/web browser/whatever in use has to support drag&drop.
  
  Does that help?
  Torsten.
• Aug 5 2010 8:48am
  Benjamin Genevay (Bright Spark)
  Yes exactly Torsten, I can't use the clipboard if I am connected to two other PCs using RDP. Your tip doesn't work for what I want to do.
• Aug 5 2010 9:03am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Benjamin,
  can you generate a CTRL-C via a menu command in RDP? Maybe that helps.
  If that is not possible I'm afraid Simidude won't help you much.
  
  Kind Regards,
  Torsten Uhlmann
• Aug 5 2010 11:01am
  Stephane M (Superstar)
  Hi Torsten,
  
  I am trying Simidude and I am pleased with the different features.
  
  I tried to copy files and folders and it is working but is there a way to stop the files being downloaded from the source?
  I tried the copy feature on a huge folder and when I realized what I had done I wanted to stop the download but the only way I found was to kill Simidude.
  
  Thanks.
• Aug 5 2010 11:50am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Stephane,
  
  thanks for your kind words!
  Unfortunately there is currently no way to stop a download in progress.
  However there are features planned for version 2 like synchronizing of folders on separate machines. So the feature of transmitting large amount of data through Simidude will become more prominent and I will add a way to abort a transmission in progress.
  
  Kind Regards,
  Torsten.
• Aug 5 2010 12:09pm
  Stephane M (Superstar)
  Ok thanks Torsten, I can live without it for now :-)
  
  It looks like the version 2 will bring lots of new and improved features, that is good.
  Are we entitled to get version 2 for free by purchasing the 1.5.1 version today?
• Aug 5 2010 12:15pm
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Stephane,
  
  I really do not know by now when I will release version 2. Before I do that I plan to run a survey on my site to let all interested users read about new planned features and give a vote / suggest their own pet feature. So you are entitled to all version 1 updates and the very least will receive a substantial discount for version 2.
  
  Kind Regards,
  Torsten.
• Aug 5 2010 12:37pm
  Jason H (Visitor)
  Does Simidude let you share your mouse and keyboard across computers?
• Aug 5 2010 12:51pm
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Jason,
  
  no you can't do that with Simidude. There's a tool called Synergy (Plus) that does that.
  
  Kind Regards,
  Torsten.
• Aug 5 2010 6:11pm
  Neville Franks (Bright Spark)
  Very useful program which I'll be buying. That said I have not been able to see mixed content in Simidude. For example if I select text and images on a web page and copy this to the Clipboard I only see the text in Simidude. If I copy just the image, then I do see that, but I can't see both. This a fairly big shortcoming IMO. In this specific example you simple need to support the HTML Clipboard format which IE and Firefox use. RTF should also be supported.
  
  Also can I suggest that Simidude is either started after Installation or a checkbox is included in the Installer to enable this.
  
  Thanks,
  Neville
• Aug 5 2010 8:02pm
  Joshua Cowan (Frequent Flyer)
  I've used this software for some time now, and it works very well.  As already mentioned, support is excellent.  Software developers like Torsten should be encouraged/rewarded; I just bought two more Simidude licenses today for this very purpose.
  
  Thanks, Torsten, for working with me on the Ubuntu issues some time back.  I meant to donate after that all got sorted out.
  
  --Joshua
• Aug 5 2010 11:20pm
  Stephane M (Superstar)
  Thanks Torsten, I purchased it but I have an issue with the license I received though.
  I am going to go through the support to fix it.
• Aug 5 2010 11:26pm
  Stephane M (Superstar)
  Never mind, I got it working.
  Outlook messed it up! :-)
  Thanks.
• Aug 6 2010 2:40am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Neville,
  thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely keep them in mind!
  I'm currently working on a uniform way to support global hotkeys across all supported platforms. The result will be a native library that can host other commands like integrating with the autostart behavior.
  Thanks for pointing out,
  Torsten.
  
  PS
• Aug 6 2010 2:42am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Joshua,
  thank you very much for the kind words and your support! I regard this very highly.
  
  Torsten.
• Aug 6 2010 2:44am
  Torsten Uhlmann (AGYNAMIX Vendor)
  Stephane,
  
  sorry for the trouble. Yes there is still a problem with my license key and Outlook. I once opened a ticket with Microsoft and we tried to resolve that but action eventually faded away. No I will stick with the license mechanism and change it with the next major version...

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