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Collanos – Saving you time

Jesse Woodriff For this installment of my bi-weekly technical take it will be on the P2P (peer-to-peer) java developed product called Collanos. This fairly new product allows you and your co-workers to securely share files in multiple workspaces. Collanos can be installed on pretty much any flavor of Operating System that you’d like. It will run on Microsoft Windows (2000/XP/Vista), OSX (Mac), and many distributions of linux (Red Hat/Suse/Ubuntu/Fedora). All you need to do is install the Collanos client, register a username and away you go. Even though this was a simple install I thought I’d document it for the weak at heart.

Installation

Once you download the Collanos Client, double-click on it and start the install. A word of wisdom though, if you’re using Vista you’ll need to right click on the install icon and select run as administrator. After it runs its progress bar you’ll see this screen below. Click next.

Than after the next screen which is the license agreement click next.
You’ll then see this window below.
Collanos 2

Very simple, eh? click next. The window below selects the default location for the installation. collanos 3

Unless you feel like changing it just click next. Below it is going to be the default location for your workspace.
For this install I let it

choose the default but you can change
it to be wherever you’d like. Click Next.

Click next at this screen.

Click next at this screen also.

And away we go. Installing of course.

All finished! This was very clean and simple. Click finish.

Run the Collanos client and you see this login window.
If you don’t already have a username you’ll
need to register. No big deal, only takes a
minute.

With using Collanos you can simplify and centralize your projects in a workplace.

Some of the features include

Everything related to your project can be contained in a workplace.
File Sharing
Online Discussions
IM (Instant Messenger)
Manage tasks and assign them to peers.
Work online or offline.
Entire project is transparently synchronized with peers.

In summary, I have found that this can be an important tool in the workplace. This is a way to through projects and tasks to simplify / communicate with my fellow employees. If you’d like your days to go smoother, give Collanos a try. I gave it a try and an applause as well. Thank You.