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I use this daily with my dev team. It's great because skype is cross-platform, easily traverses firewalls/NAT, and combines the screen sharing with voice chat.

Any competing tool (or set of tools) would have to accomplish those same goals.

Also, I tend to use skype (or email) whenever I have to paste a large block of text (like a stack trace), since Yahoo and AIM both avoid sending messages if they're too long.

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I use Gists for pasting (http://gist.github.com). It's really nice. You can have private gists, which are reasonably secure. You can have multiple files. You get syntax highlighting. And if you paste some code and then want to build upon it, you can edit it either through the web interface or by cloning the repository, working with your favorite text editor, and then pushing your changes.

There's also a handy little project that allows you to Gist from the command line: http://github.com/defunkt/gist/

I've been all over using tmux (http://tmux.sf.net) for remote pairing basically all day long. It's like a reincarnation of GNU Screen that shows internal cohesion and makes more sense.

I've been using Teamviewer for a month now and it's pretty incredible compared to my past experiences with remote desktop tools. It's basically Remote Desktop + Skype (it navigates firewalls, has VOIP, etc.). No chat though. Highly recommended.

The only drawback that I think should be mentioned w/ Teamviewer is that it is only free for non-commercial use. As a RDP replacement it is awesome -- a friend and I troubleshoot problems that way sometimes. But it isn't free for those that would use it in a professional capacity.

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