How to control your desktop mac with your laptop aka remote control of a mac

Software I use for this procedure: All this software is FREE :)

Chicken of the VNC http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
Chicken of the VNC is your window viewing the remote computer. I have Chicken of the VNC on my laptop or local computer.

and BwanaDik http://www.jschilling.net/sw_bwanadik.php
This software tells you what your IP address is both locally and on the internet. BwanaDik goes on your remote computer, the computer you want to control from a distance.

Warning: I do not know of the security risk of this procedure. To me I don't worry about it, I'm not a bank or that worried about it.









On the remote computer open system preferences, which can be found by clicking the apple in the top right hand corner of your screen. You will then click on the Sharing Preference.











Then you make sure you are in the services pane first and select remote access connections with a check in the box. Note the line below saying other computers can manage your computer at 10.0.0.5 this is for access when you are on the same router. It may be a different number than mine so write that down. If you are not on the same router or you want to take control of someones computer through the internet you will need to use something like BwanaDik to get the ouside IP address.

ok now you will want to click the access privilages button and make sure it looks like mine with everything i have clicked. Note you can make a name and password to use for login in by remote control here. Write this name and password down.



Make sure that you have a VNC entry in your firewall list. If not you can create one by clicking new and make sure it matches mine see picture to the right.

OK now the remote computer should be set up (my laptop in this case). You may need to do port forwarding on your router if Chicken of the VNC cannot connect.

Open Chicken of the VNC start a new connection and if you are on a local network meaning both computers are connected to the same router just enter the local ip number you wrote down earlier in the remote access preference, which in my case is 10.0.0.5. Other wise over the internet it will be the external IP address.

you will enter in the passord you wrote down and make sure the boxes are the same as mine. also check remember passord so you don't have to fill that in again. Then hit connect and you should see a window with the contents of your other computers screen.


here is another tutorial on vnc http://murphymac.com/chicken-of-the-vnc/

Gmail Task list

This is a helpful feature that gives me a to do list that I can see on my lap top or my home desktop computer.

quote from google:

Take entering a new task: just click in an empty part of your list and start typing. No buttons to click and it's saved automatically. Hit Return and you've got a new task right there.

You can also easily convert emails into tasks: select one or more messages and go to More Actions > Add to Tasks. (Or turn on keyboard shortcuts and use + t.)



We put your tasks in the same kind of window as chats, so they're visible while you're scanning your inbox, reading mail, or searching (and in Settings, too!). Just pop your list out into a new window to use Tasks outside of Gmail.

To enable Tasks, go to Settings, click the Labs tab (or just click here if you're signed in). Select "Enable" next to "Tasks" and then click "Save Changes" at the bottom. Then, after Gmail refreshes, on the left under the "Contacts" link, you'll see a "Tasks" link. Just click it to get started.

Google Analytics - Free information about your net traffic

Signing up for this is not very intuitive and annoying.

Once passed all that tho the information you get is very detailed and helpful in seeing where your traffic is coming from and if certain marketing ideas work or not.

Future of music sharing?

These guys really seem to have a good web development team because they made this web site EASY to use and share music.

Looks very promising as a way to get noticed in the music and sound production arena through the easy widgets they produce for you to share music files. I have not checked out all the features but it looks like you can share privately or publicly, a link and graphic generator and search for the music people have not even discovered yet. Comment on others work and get feedback and statistics.

go here http://www.soundcloud.com


SoundCloud: The Tour from SoundCloud on Vimeo.

This site looks promising too although I have not had time to play with it

http://www.podomatic.com/

Firefox quick window switch

Ever have a pop-up window come up asking you for something, switch to another window and now you can't find that small window? Short cut APPLE+` and there you go sift your way through all the open windows of that particular application. Similar to APPLE+TAB but it stays within one program.

Stop the startup sound on a Mac

Maybe the first thousand times I enjoyed the start up sound on my mac and now i'm just over it.

This lovely little freebe will have you starting your mac in silence.

-> http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/StartupSound/index.en.html

Review of NVU, KompoZer and Aptana Studio

To date I have not found an intuitive, fast and visual way to make web pages and internet applications.

I have used Adobe Golive, Macromedia Dreamweaver and some free apps I have found online.

NVU and KompoZer are from the same open source code and I really want them to do well but so far the programs fail. Expect crashing, unexpected bugs, very slow operation. Maybe they will get it together in the future but for now I would skip these 2.

Aptana studio is also free for the unsupported version and this program may just be the ultimate player in the web design and programming world. I just started using it so I can't say anything other than I'm optimistic that it may meet my html, css, php and other basic online programming needs.

Aptana can be found here -> http://www.aptana.com/