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Active Discussions => MUGOO Meetings => Topic started by: fivespan on October 04, 2006, 10:14:18 PM

Title: 2006-10-23 October iMeeting Agenda + follow-ups: VNC and RSS
Post by: fivespan on October 04, 2006, 10:14:18 PM
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! ! ! ! New Meeting Location ! ! ! !

Nepean Public Library Rm 1B
(Inside Ben Franklin Place)

Map: http://tinyurl.com/qm7wm
Video Directions: http://www.youtube.com/v/CDZqipeVLFc

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1. Club Business -- Club executive election overview -- Ferriss High

2. Control your Mac remotely for FREE -- Ben Schmidt

3. Futuristic painting with Photoshop -- Lynda Matsumoto

4. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) 'really' saves you time -- Paul Timmins
Title: Re: 2006-10-23 October iMeeting Agenda
Post by: ben schmidt on October 29, 2006, 07:31:54 PM
2. Control your Mac remotely ...for FREE

Here are some links from the October 23rd presentation,
best,
...ben
Secretary, Mugoo

Apple positions OS X's built-in Apple Remote Desktop server to be used in an academic or computer lab situation, and sells the cliient in 10-pack and unlimited seat packages:

       http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/

But sometime beginning around OS X 10.3 possibly, but by OS X 10.4 for sure, Apple changed the free built-in Desktop sharing server included with OS X:

       Apple menu --> System Preferences... --> Sharing --> Apple Remote Desktop

to run over open-source VNC (virtual network computing) protocols. This now allows you to control a Mac running a recent version of OS X from another computer using a VNC client, such as the free Chicken of the VNC client:

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/

Nor are you restricted to controlling this Mac from another Mac -- you can use any computer for which a VNC client is available --- which is a wide range, including the Windows implementation recommended and tested by our own AdminMan, UltraVNC:

       http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

Of course there is an extra step if the remote Mac, to be controlled, is behind a router: either temporarily remove the router or enable port-forwarding in the router to allow VNC protocols to pass through it.  And a fair bit of time was spent in the presentation suggesting that those with means and newbie Mac users whom they wish to support might be better served by a commercial remote desktop product such as Netopia's venerable Timbuktu Pro:

       http://netopia.com/software/products/tb2/
 
available for free evaluation:

       http://netopia.com/software/products/tb2/evaluate.html
Title: Re: 2006-10-23 October iMeeting Agenda
Post by: fivespan on November 09, 2006, 12:08:21 AM
RSS feed links:

Here is an explanation of RSS you might want to read -- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061107/ap_on_bi_co_ne/good_question.

Here is Google's online reader home page -- http://www.google.com/reader/view/

Here is NetNewsWire Lite's home page -- http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdId=NetNewsWire&ProdView=lite

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