{"id":8,"date":"2005-11-18T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.168.29.5\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-11-18T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T05:34:00","slug":"copilot-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/copilot-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Copilot.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found something good.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I had the opportunity to use Copilot, Joel on Software&#8217;s easy remote control service. It lets one person control another&#8217;s computer from anywhere on the planet. The key innovation is that it&#8217;s so simple to use. Both the helper and helpee go to copilot.com, one pays and gets a code, the other enters the code on the site. Then they both download the software and connect.<\/p>\n<p>I was the helper today and I paid $9.95 for a 24 hour pass. The connection is both encrypted and fast enough to do anything a helper would need to do. With only two buttons on the toolbar &#8211;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> refresh<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">ctrl-alt-del<\/span> &#8211; the interface is truly idiot proof.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I would change about the service is the way it&#8217;s paid for. I would prefer if I could either buy a year&#8217;s pass or pay a smaller amount for a shorter session than 24 hours&#8230;4 hours for $3.95 might work.<\/p>\n<p>At that rate, all I&#8217;d have to say is, &#8220;Anybody need a hand?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found something good. Today, I had the opportunity to use Copilot, Joel on Software&#8217;s easy remote control service. It lets one person control another&#8217;s computer from anywhere on the planet. The key innovation is that it&#8217;s so simple to use. Both the helper and helpee go to copilot.com, one pays and gets a code, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}