Re: [AG-TECH] Questions about remote presentation technology software

[John Hodrien <johnh@comp.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Derek Piper wrote:

> 	Possibly the 'Anabas' thing was before I was here, but I do remember 
> using the inSORS 'IGPix' for doing a shared presentation thing. Even though 
> we use the basic AccessGrid stuff, the other sites were wanting IGPix. We had 
> a speaker here, as well as him listening to other presentations. As far as I 
> recall it worked satisfactorily. It just did powerpoint slides. The 
> SharedPresentation is much more slick imho.
IGPix isn't limited to powerpoint, it's a generic screengrabber.  It also has
one up on SharedPresentation (unless I'm wrong and SP does too) that it works
nicely with non-AG2 clients.  But don't view that as me saying it's the nuts.
I'm against it as it's not Free.

jh

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