So, you’re sitting at home working on your computer, and you need to transfer a file, web address, or even just a snippet of text to one of your other computers on the network. What do you do? You could try sending it over the network, and hope that your sharing and permissions settings are set up correctly. You could email it to yourself, logging into your email on one machine, logging out, and then logging into the destination machine. Or you could break out your flash drive and sneaker-net the stuff over to the other machine. Thrilling options, aren’t they?
What if I told you that you could just copy it to your clipboard on one machine, then paste it from the clipboard on the other machine? Or, better yet, just drag and drop items between two completely different machines? Sounds awesome, yet implausible, right?
Simidude delivers exactly this functionality. Once you install Simidude, you’ll be able to drag and drop files, folders, text, and HTML addresses between any of your computers, no matter if they’re running Linux, Windows, or MacOS!
Simidude synchronizes your clipboards so items that you copy to one clipboard are instantly available on every other clipboard on the network. You can even use Simidude to drag files to and from Virtual Machine servers! Items can be dragged out of the Simidude window directly into applications to launch them. One of the most common situations involving machine-to-machine file transfers is with digital photos, and you'll be pleased to see that Simidude offers you a handy thumbnail image of every image file that you drag into it!
Simidude even maintains a running memory of the items that you’ve copied to the clipboard, making it easy to manage clipped items. For instance, if you’ve copied an item to the clipboard before, you don’t have to do it again – just find it in your Simidude list and activate it. Plus, you can perform full-text searches through your clipboard items!
Oh, but there's one more thing -- Simidude is incredibly easy to use! It connects automatically to all running instances without the need to setup network connections, server ip addresses and the like.
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?
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.
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 :-(
Great to hear, Rick! Please don't hesitate to send me comments or suggestions to contact@agynamix.de. Have a great day, Torsten.
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.)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Ben, please email me directly at contact@agynamix.de. I believe we can cut a deal. Thanks, Torsten.
Torsten straightened everything out. It's an excellent program. Very useful if you have PCs on a local area network.
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) read moreprogram 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).
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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 read moremain 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.)
Hi Jon, I got your helpdesk message and I'm trying to resolve the problem. I'll get in touch with you. Torsten.
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