Tiffany Screens – Screen Sharing

I never really liked going to “PowerPoint Meetings”, sharing the screen content with others during a meeting usually required to connect a projector to the presenter’s Laptop. In a lengthy process, the Laptop’s screen resolution and refresh-rate needed to be manually adjusted to synchronize with the projector. The adjustment procedure was often followed by a single lecture style presentation, featuring slides being projected hugely magnified onto one of the meeting room’s walls.

Tiffany Screens allows you to share presentations (or any screen content) with your peer group, without requiring a projector.
Imagine a scenario, where every participant brought a Laptop to a meeting and watched the presentation on that Laptop’s display – participants would probably sit on a table facing each other, instead of the wall. No adjustments are necessary; images are scaled automatically on arrival, to best match the receiver’s display-capability. To support lively meetings, everyone participating can with a single button click, turn his computer into the presenting device.

Truly cross platform, Tiffany Screens 3.0 runs and shares any screen content on

  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2000
  • Mac OS X v10.4 / v10.5
  • Linux Desktops

Tiffany Screens 3.0.1 is available for download here: http://www.tiffanyscreens.com/download.html

GigaOM Staff Writer Kevin C. Tofel, writes about Tiffany Screens:

“…a really nice piece of presentation sharing software. I installed the application on my MacBook Pro and my Samsung Q1P UMPC; there was no configuration involved since Tiffany Screens auto-detects peer clients within the same local network. Within a minute of installation, I was presenting the desktop and apps between the two clients.”

Theodore – Visual XUL Editor For Thinlet

In fall 2002 I had played around with Thinlets, which I liked for its lean approach. However, because it lacked tools and extensibility, I didn’t want to use it for serious projects. Today, the Thinlet library might still lack an object-oriented implementation but at least there is a tool now .. meet Theodore.

After I had written Theodore 1.0, I was even more convinced that GUI resources belong into XML descriptors, to be evaluated at runtime, instead of using code generators before compile time. The significantly updated Theodore 3.0 supports (is built with and ships with) the classic Thinlet.jar

Find out more about Theodore at http://wolfpaulus.com/software/theodore/ . Theodore 3.0 is available in a Web-startable edition, as well as in the locally installable.

Paul Golding, listed in the Who’s Who of Britain’s Young Business Elite writes about Theodore: “Just played around with XUL via the fabulous Thinlet authoring tool Theodore. Playing around with the Theodore tool is a great way to learn, or at least appreciate, the power and potential benefits of XUL.”


SwiXML – XUL Engine For Swing

In January 2003 I founded the Swixml open source project (www.swixml.org) to combine the benefits of Swing (availability of models, extensibility of widgets etc.) with the lean XUL-approach, demonstrated by the Thinlet developers. SwiXML, is a small GUI generating engine for Java applications and applets. Graphical User Interfaces are described in XML documents that are parsed and rendered into javax.swing objects at runtime. SwiXML, is now listed as one of the few java.net member companies and organizations.