Using Screen Sharing in Mac OS X Leopard

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My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'll be showing you some of the new features in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Ok screen sharing. Really, really cool. So we're going to go over here, click on Mac HD, open it up. You can see under our shared devices, you can see my Mac Mini, you can also see my PC here. So I'm going to click on Mac Mini. It'll actually look like, let me back up here a little bit, as a side note if you look at the Mac icon or the PC icon under Mac it's really kind of funny. Hit connect as. If you look really closely you can see that it's a PC with the blue screen of death. The Windows fatal exception error. It's kind of a little joke. A built in Easter egg. Back up on that, though. But you go to Mac mini, or under whatever computer you've got, I've got a Mac mini. I'm going to, first of all I can see all the drives on that computer, but I can go to share screen and do more than just see the drives. This is really awesome. So I've got an application that quit unexpectedly, so I'm just going to relaunch it. And I'll deal with this later. But this is my Mac mini, and I'll show you, I can actually resize this window if I can get a hold of it. Of course, obviously, it's a little hard to use it at this point. It actually even exposes, but it is there if I want to make it really tiny and just watch what happens. I'm going to make it nice and big, so we can see what's going on here. I'll actually full screen it, whoops. And so you can see everything that's all junked up on my desktop. I can actually highlight stuff. I can go into the trash; I can play with the stacks on the Mac Mini. There's my Mac mini stacks. I can look at all the applications, I can start up applications, and I can open up iTunes on my other computer and go through my entire iTunes catalog like that which is kind of cool. I can open up aperture and edit photos. I can send pictures to myself. I could, this is actually kind of neat, not a real good practical application for this but it sure does look cool. I can go under file sharing. I could share the screen with my Macbook while I'm looking at the screen of my Mac mini and create a real neat optical effect. And there it is. The endless window. Kind of nifty. The good this is is that it's totally seamless. So you don't even really, you don't have to consciously control click to go off the screen or anything like that. Or I could still go over here and click on my photo stack, and then go right back in to here. There's logic, and go to this hard drive and do whatever I want. This is really awesome, and you can actually do this over, you can set it up where you can dial in from anywhere. So I can have my Macbook at Starbuck's and I could have a Mac mini at home, and I could realize that I forgot to email myself a file from the Mc mini. So I could log on to the Mac mini and send myself the file, and it's just perfect. So that's probably my favorite new feature.

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