I do a lot of work on two machines; one for testing and the other for development and is my main machine. When I’m testing, I regularly have to copy logs and files back and forth. This requires me to copy the file/log to my server and then pull it down from the other machine. After awhile, this gets quite repetitive. There is/was a program called Clipboard Sharing that allowed me to synchronize the clipboards of all my machines, so I could copy from one and simply paste on the other. However, the auto sync part stopped working in Tiger. I sent the author email, but was impatient so I started writing my own. I got as far as having everything work well before the author got back to me with a version to test under Tiger. It worked beautifully and now I’m pleased as punch. The author has published it as freeware, but has asked for donations. I sent him a nice donation yesterday because of how much time it has already saved me. (In fact my donation was more than I spend on most software.)

The second program is one called DropCopy. It lets me quickly and easily send files/folders across my local network to other machines. It works quite well, but the user interface is just awful. It is another free application. Definitely worth checking out and I hope the author can clean up the interface as it will make a top notch utility.