TeamViewer
Web site: http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx
Cost: free for non-commercial, personal use
TeamViewer is a remote screen sharing, viewing, and controlling application, with a file transfer function. Using the Internet, your computer can see or be seen, and control or be controlled, by anyone, anywhere, in seconds, for free.
You could use free screen sharing in OS X Leopard 10.5′s iChat to view and/or control a remote computer’s screen, and to exchange files, but the software has potential network glitches, from my experience. Seasoned Macintoshers can also accomplish the same thing via a Screen Sharing command in the Leopard Finder, with help of some geeky System Preference settings.
YuuGuu, a startup in England, has the same capacity, plus a few enhancements. Its beta application is operative, but not yet in full release.
Glance Networks, a friend and advertiser here at MyMac Magazine, is an affordable enterprise quality robust screen sharing company with a mature product cycle that is stable and dependable. It will be covered in depth in a future Nemo Memo.
Mac OS X Beyond the Manual
by Scott Meyers and Mike Lee
Publisher: Apress
Price: US $34.99
598 pages
With every significant update of Apple’s operating system there’s going to be a slew of manuals to help new and experienced computer users learn about a system’s new features, plus any tips and hacks that make for better and faster computing.
In the past, I’ve always kept a copy of David Pogue’s Mac OS X: The Missing Manual on my computer bookshelf because I can always count on Pogue to address almost any issue I’m having with my computer or a piece of Apple software. Pogue seems to anticipate and address many of the questions that beginning and intermediate users of OS X have for getting into and through the program. His writing is entertaining, well illustrated, and current.
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Total Leopard Superguide ebook
Macworld.com
http://www.macworld.com/superguide/leopard/
$12.95 downloadable ebook PDF
$15.00 PDF on CD-ROM via mail
$24.95 printed
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been out long enough for various help books to hit the stores. My current favorite tome is David Pogue’s Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual.
Various web sites have been filling cyberspace with Leopard hints, tips and tricks.
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Well, it’s been a month and a half since I upgraded to Leopard and overall, I really like it. However, what I would really like is to be able to print again without having to resort to restarting the computer just to have access to the printer.
Now, understand, the printer is there, my Mac sees it, knows it’s there but when I go to print, it tells me that it’s not. Yet, when I open up the printer/fax panel, there it is listed as the Default, sitting idle, just waiting for me to send it something to print. Yet, when I do, it tells me it’s printing, then says there is a fatal error, but doesn’t provide an error code. Error, yes, I know there’s an error, you’re not printing.
Now I’m using a HP Deskjet 5550 that if I start up on another hard drive running 10.4.10, I can print any time I want. Yes, I’ve checked the USB connection, it’s fine. Yes, I’ve switched the USB cable to another port… still doesn’t work. Yes, I’ve reset my PRAM…I cleared and then reset my printer system following Apple’s instructions… reset the PMU… Hell, I even resorted to trying HP’s online chat with a tech… does not speak MAC… so I sent an email form that I got an auto response quickly back telling me that they would respond back (or forward to the appropriate HP section to assist me) within a very short time period. That was December 8th… HELLO HP… did my email go to the dead email letter box by mistake????
Anyone have any suggestions?
Russ
I haven’t decided if I like the new Stacks feature in Leopard or not, but what I don’t like is how the icon of the stack is the icon of first alphabetical item in the folder you put in the Dock for a stack. For me it was the Applications folder, and the Address Book icon representing that folder.
I was trying to figure out a way to change the icon, and I remembered an old OS9 trick for reorganizing items in the Apple Menu. If you put a space before the first letter of an item ‘s name in the Apple Menu it always moved straight to the top of the list. For example “Zebra” would be at the bottom of the Apple Menu, but “ Zebra” (notice the space before the Z) would be at the top of the Apple Menu.
I decided to try this with Stacks, and it worked!
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“ “ (that would be one space).
With Mac OS X 10.5 (a.k.a. Leopard) Apple has introduced a very nice new feature called “back to my mac”. For those with a .mac account, you can now setup a secure way of accessing your Mac from on the road. Useful? Oh yes it is.
However as usual there are two problems, firstly you need Mac OS X 10.5, which many of us haven’t purchased yet. Secondly, you need a .mac subscription, which I am being told is very useful, but so far I haven’t had a need for.
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With the release of Leopard comes the integration of a workspaces program into the operating system. With this feature being bundled with Leopard it will have many people asking the question, “What do I need this for?” a question I asked myself before I began using a pre-Leopard workspaces program called Desktop Manager. I fell in love with it to the point where I had to get the Google Desktop on my PC just so I could take advantage of Workspaces.
The benefit is especially powerful on a Macbook, where the screen resolution has a maximum limit of 1280 x 800. This resolution proves to be a powerful disadvantage when compared to the normal resolution on my desktop of 1600 x 1200. I was limited on the Macbook and it drove me insane. Desktop Manager solved that problem, and now Spaces will solve the problem for the millions who have and will upgrade their systems to Leopard.
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This week, we have six people sit down and chat about the weeks Mac and Apple news. Owen, David, Donny, Tim, Guy, and Rich discuss some of the features in Leopard, as well as installation problems. There is a new malware trojan horse on the Mac, and we look at how you can avoid getting it. Apple sells 2 million copies of Leopard. The iPhone is already hacked, and we look at the real reasons behind NBC’s break from iTunes. Also, a special Book Bytes Live with John Nemo features an interview with the great author Joe Cottonwood!
As always, we would love to have some feedback. Send us an email here, or simply call 1-801-938-5559 and leave a message.
Links from the show
Joe Cottonwood
Application Update widget
Owen Rubin’s Website
Rich’s Weather Site
The new TextEdit icon
Macspiration: The First Fifty
I’m been home sick for the past few days, whatever is going around came to visit me. So this morning, when the FedEx guy arrived at 9:32 am with a little bundle of joy, Mac OS 10.5, it kinda cheered me up.
The Good News… Leopard is here!
The Bad News… Leopard is here!
Background- I’m running a G4 PowerMac MDD 867 Dual, with 1.5 gigs of ram. (Yes, I know, I just made it) I prepared for Leopard by removing one of the old internal hard drives that I had 10.3.9 and OS 9 on, and added a WD 160 gig hard drive. I started the installation at 10:32 am and it finished at 11:31 am. (of course the last 9 minutes were shown as “less than 1 minute remaining.”
Restart, starts up, looks good… transfer all info and apps over from the primary HD and then things start to get a bit strange. Click on System Prefs in the dock and the beach ball appears… and spins and spins and spins. Finally, Force Quit.. several times to get it to do so. Right click on the desktop to change the desktop background and … nothing.
Ok, let’s try Disk Utility and have it Repair permissions.. click on it and 10 minutes later, the barber pole is still rotating. Ok, enough’s enough. Put the install DVD back in, restart and select Utilities. Click on Verify Disk, it does so, then click on “repair” and it tells me the “Disk could not be unmounted.” Click again and it goes through the process, no repairs needed.
Click on Repair Permissions… and the barber pole starts and keeps on going, 10 minutes, 15 minutes… time to quit out. Restart computer selecting the HD with Leopard on it. Starts up, able to change background picture, begin to check out things… Like the look of Mail, (version 3.0 (912.1/912); Safari 3.0.4 (5523.10) and what ever else I’m opening up. Oh, yeah, click on Software Update… you guessed it, spinning beach ball, doesn’t want to quit when told…
I really like the look of Leopard, the changes to the way folders display contents as a fan spread and I’m continuing to explore. Will get back and let you know how things proceed with repairing permissions and any other issues that may arise.
Enjoy!
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By the time you listen to this, Leopard will be out in the wild, possibly even on your hard drive running your Mac. But when we recorded this two days prior to the launch, Tim Robertson, Donny Yankellow, and Rich Lefko were left asking questions and talking about what they were most looking forward to.
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