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Remote and Screen Sharing Windows Computer in Mac

Kate — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:58:26 +0000

Users whom migrated from Windows to Mac may want the ability to control and share their Windows screens wirelessly in an easy way. This is useful when you were a Windows user or most of work data are on your Windows computer

This how to will show you how to remote a Windows computer, screen sharing it in Mac with WiFI connection or with Ethernet available

Setup Remote Desktop Connection

First thing you need a software to connect Mac with Windows, Remote Desktop Connection Client. Download the software from Apple site.

Install it like other software in Mac. You’ll see a Remote Desktop Connection icon in Application folder.

Configure the built in Airport Express or Ethernet to have IP statics and are on the same network. Open Network Preferences, Choose Airport then click Advanced button, go to TCP/IP tab, set Configure Ipv4 to Manually, type IP address, subnet mask and router IP.

Setup Ethernet same way with Airport Express

Configure Remote Desktop Connection

Before you can remote your Windows computer, configure the Remote Desktop Connection software to use themes, play sounds from Windows. The later feature is very cool, because you can play mp3 store in Windows to your Mac. Go to RDC menu, launch preferences.

Display Tab allows you to control how Windows look on Mac, you can get full screen size window, tick show desktop background like your windows, tick Windows themes will display your Windows themes on Mac

Sound Tab provides three choices, tick On the Macintosh computer only will play your Windows sound on Mac. But when you tick On the Windows-based computer only, it will play the Sounds on Windows, no Sounds will be transfer to Mac. Or you can turn sound off, tick Do not play sound

Remote and Screen Sharing Windows Computer

Run the Remote Desktop Connection , you’ll be presented with a simple interface, it will ask you Windows computer IP or name then click Connect button

A window popup ask you to insert Windows login. The username and password same with your Windows login. Match Domain with Computer Name in Windows system properties. Click OK

After that, you will see Windows login usually apear on Windows, insert Windows username and password one more time. Voila you can remote your Windows computer now!

Conclusion

Mac is powerful when it comes to networking even with Windows. It’s only a matter of minutes to setup, fast and easy access

Now, you can collaborate with someone else who use Windows or use it as transition from Windows to Mac.

Feel free to let us know what do you think about this. Is it a tool you find a particularly useful?

A hidden tricks on Mac’s Safari browser

Kate — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:05:16 +0000

You probably know Safari can resume download. However, what if you must shutdown your macbook for unexpected reasons, like out of battery.

You turn macbook on after the battery is full, resume your download and find out that there’s no resume command when you open Safari.

It sucks when it’s happening in the middle of big files download.
Don’t get angry too soon.
Clear you download window but don’t reset Safari.
You may not know Safari saved all downloads in download directory.
Open download directory, find Safari icon with loading bar on it. That shows that file is Resume Download file from Safari. Click it twice, Safari download window pop up ..bingo! Your download back on

A Simple Way to Share Fonts on Mac

Kate — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:03:29 +0000

One day, you need fonts from old Mac or get it from a friend, a simple way to do it, copy fonts from/library/fonts to documents folder in your home folder. Compress those fonts using StuffIT Expander or another Mac OS X compress software, send it via email or local network.

DO NOT OPEN THE ZIP FILE ON WINDOWS, YOU’ll GET UNIX EXECUTABLE FILES

Uncompress the zip file on Mac, copy it to your new Mac’s /library/fonts. Restart your Mac OS X