Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

1. Find the screen sharing application and put it in the dock for future convenience. It is found at /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app
2. Type this into terminal (it allows you to see networked computers that can be controlled):
   defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1
3. Now, to add lots of buttons that are also found in Apple Remote Desktop, type this as one line into terminal:

   defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \
   'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' \
   '(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,
   GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'

   
   
4. Now restart screen sharing to see the buttons

Watch the video demo

written by WhizzKid \\ tags: hacks, Leopard, screen sharing

Screen sharing in Leopard is pretty neat. Screen sharing is nothing new, we’ve been doing it for years, one way or another. Leopard makes Screen sharing easy, but did you know there’s more to Leopards Screen sharing than available by default?

This clip on youtube demonstrates how you can use Screen Sharing as a stand-alone application and enable some hidden features to get the most out of the app.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9f6N3nzyTo

written by James \\ tags: Leopard, remote desktop, screen sharing, vnc

I know its probably not a big trick but it’s quite sensational. If you connect two computers in both ways with Leopard’s Screen Sharing, you’ll get a video feedback interactive by both users. To get out of this loop, you can close one of the Screen Sharing’s window or if refresh is not quite fast, one of the user can just force quit Screen Sharing. Since this is a major time waister and have no utility at all, the experience is still quite fun. It also reminds me the Time Machine”s layout. You can see an example on this webpage.

written by niclet \\ tags: screen sharing