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by kaoD 3904 days ago
Feedback: I'm sorry but I don't understand what's this. I see "mapy" in a big box and, when I go to the provided URL I get to the same page but a different word.

This app (I guess it's an app?) would really benefit from some sort of 1-2-3 tutorial.

I'm still interested though. What's this?

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Thanks for your feedback. Now I don't really understand why I thought it wouldn't need instructions.

You can use this to push a webpage to any browser window, with minimal setup and interaction. You can make your tablet or phone a non-interactive external display.

Here are some instructions:

1. Add your device to your "farm" by scanning the QR code or entering the URL on that device

2. Optionally, edit the auto-generated name of that window (in your case "mapy"), to something like: "tablet"/"phone"/"oldlaptop".

3. See the bookmarklet link for your device appear on your computer, drag this to your bookmark bar

4. Visit some website then press the bookmark => the website should now be opened on the respective device. Alternatively, you can use the REST API to send a URL or image to a device

With a simple Ruby script (I will publish that soon), you can watch your Desktop folder on OS X for newly created screenshots, and upload them as they are created, so in effect, you take a screenshot and it instantly appears on your tablet.