CrossLoop – Secure Screen Sharing

Ever need to give some technical advise to somebody that is miles away, and they don’t understand what you are saying over the phone. I get this many times when somebody from my family calls from home when I’m over a thousand miles away in college. I try explaining what they need to do, but they don’t understand what I am saying.

CrossLoop comes to the rescue, making it easy to connect to another person’s computer and share their screen. I just tried it out today when one of my family members called to ask for help. The hardest part was trying to get the person to download and install it because they had never downloaded or installed anything before. It ended up not being something I could fix through CrossLoop, but it was still pretty cool to be able to control somebody else’s computer.

One thing that I think they should add is the possibility to see the other users mouse. When trying to help another person, you cannot see their mouse pointer, but they can see yours. Other than that, everything seemed to work fine, even through my colleges strict network.

It’s a free download, so give it a try if you want. You might come to find out that you might need it later.