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We are building a website together for the learning experience. I am assigned to do the coding an my friend will assist me. So we are looking for a program where he can see my screen without him being able to type or move the cursor.

Can anyone recommend a free program for this?

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You would be far better of educating your friend on how to design the web site rather than what should be, after all, a data entry job :-) – paxdiablo May 20 '11 at 8:06
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windows? Linux? Graphic or console based? – Fredrik May 20 '11 at 8:11
As I see nothing in the request special to programming (as opposed to programing being what the OP plans to do with a general tool), I'm voting for a more to Super User. – dmckee May 21 '11 at 1:55
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For hassle free, web version, you can try http://join.me/, if you are on linux, you can go with http://teamviewer.com/

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Thanks. I will look into this. My friend is on linux and I use windows. – Kasper Hansen May 20 '11 at 8:03
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it's the host that actually needs windows, the client can just use his web browser to view your screen (for join.me) – andreas May 20 '11 at 8:04
Holy shit!! join.me is absolutely excellent. It works right out of the box. And yes, I just found out that he can just view it in the browser. – Kasper Hansen May 20 '11 at 8:07
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You can use Skype and do the screen sharing. Apart from Screen sharing you can also do a voice chat and discuss in real time. Skype is also available for all platforms i.e. Windows, Linux and Mac.

Apart from Skype, Teamviewer is also a very nice software which allows you to do screen sharing.

Apart from this, as suggested, you can use GoToMeeting.

My personal favorite is Skype.

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On Windows, Microsoft SharedView is free and works well for this.

GoToMeeting is also a great product, albeit expensive.

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Sharedview was an awesome application. But MS dropped support for it and it crashes now if you have IE9 installed. I miss it :( – Daniel Williams Aug 25 '11 at 21:29
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