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From: Jim on 1 Apr 2010 05:03 On 2010-04-01, Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote: >> >> > > If you go to /System/Library/CoreServices there's an app in there called >> > > 'Screen Sharing' that you can put in the Dock. >> > >> > Ooh, never knew that. You do have to remember the IP number though. A >> > Browse option would have been useful. >> >> Rather annoyingly there _was_ a way of getting one. Then they removed >> it. >> > > Probably to stop it cannibalising sales of Apple Remote Desktop I wonder how hard it would be to write an app that just looks for Bonjour machines, displays them as a list and launches the Screen Sharing app with that machine as a target when doubleclicked? Hmmm....project.... Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Jon B on 1 Apr 2010 06:13 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-01, Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote: > >> > >> > > If you go to /System/Library/CoreServices there's an app in there > >> > > called 'Screen Sharing' that you can put in the Dock. > >> > > >> > Ooh, never knew that. You do have to remember the IP number though. A > >> > Browse option would have been useful. > >> > >> Rather annoyingly there _was_ a way of getting one. Then they removed > >> it. > >> > > > > Probably to stop it cannibalising sales of Apple Remote Desktop > > I wonder how hard it would be to write an app that just looks for Bonjour > machines, displays them as a list and launches the Screen Sharing app with > that machine as a target when doubleclicked? > > Hmmm....project.... > Isn't that pretty much covered by the finder sidebar, sharing click on a machine on the network and click the 'share screen' button? Saving the password should make it a fairly one click solution -- Jon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
From: Jim on 1 Apr 2010 06:23
On 2010-04-01, Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote: >> >> I wonder how hard it would be to write an app that just looks for Bonjour >> machines, displays them as a list and launches the Screen Sharing app with >> that machine as a target when doubleclicked? >> >> Hmmm....project.... >> > Isn't that pretty much covered by the finder sidebar, sharing click on a > machine on the network and click the 'share screen' button? Saving the > password should make it a fairly one click solution Not the point :-) Anyway, I need to finish my METAR/TAF decoder first. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash. |