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ScreenSharingMenulet fills a gap in Snow Leopard's Screen Sharing.app
Filed under: Cool tools
Every "point-oh" version of Mac OS X usually brings some small bit of pain, as I find some little utility no longer works. Snow Leopard has been no exception. I had been using the version of Screen Sharing from 10.5.4 because it had some "hidden" features which I liked. Unfortunately those "hidden" features were also "unsupported" features. When 10.5.5 came out, they were gone, but I continued to use the version of Screen Sharing from 10.5.4 which worked until 10.5.8. Sadly for me, it does not work at all in 10.6.

The biggest drawback of Screen Sharing was the removal of the Bonjour Browser, which showed a list of computers available for Screen Sharing (both locally and via Back to My Mac). Now I had to type them in manually, which isn't such a big deal when you are trying to connect to a machine on a local network. If you are trying to connect over the Internet, however, you need to use the full hostname, which may look something like this: macbook.yourname.members.mac.com. Plus, it just seems like one of those things that the computer ought to do for me. [Side note, if you are looking for a handy way to see all the Bonjour services on your local network, check out Tildesoft's free Bonjour Browser utility.]

While looking through a bunch of old files in my ~/Downloads/ folder, I found a version of ScreenSharingMenulet. I checked its webpage and saw what I was looking for: "ScreenSharingMenulet 1.7.1 and higher is compatible to Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard." ScreenSharingMenulet sits in the menu bar along with your other menu extras. Simply click on its icon (shown above) and choose which computer you wish to connect to via a dropdown list. In my testing it worked very well over a LAN although it did not seem to pre-populate with the machines over the Internet. Given the flakiness of Back To My Mac over ther Internet, I can hardly fault this program for that shortcoming.

ScreenSharingMenulet is free (donations accepted) from Stefan Klieme who has several other handy-looking utilities at his website. If you use Screen Sharing a lot, it's definitely a handy tool to have around.
TUAW ScreenSharingMenulet fills a gap in Snow Leopard's Screen Sharing.app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Mac OS X - Snow Leopard - Apple - Operating system - TUAW
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Talkcast tonight: 10 PM EDT Sunday
Filed under: TUAW Business, Podcasts

We apologize for the late notice, but wanted to remind you that a group of our alpha geeks will be on hand for more Talkcast fun.

Barring any Skype disasters, we're back for an hour of fun and questions. There's no set topic for this evening, so bring your questions or comments and join in the fun!

To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, or you can try out the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the "TalkShoe Web" button on our profile page at 10 pm Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VOIP lines (take advantange of your free cellphone weekend minutes if you like): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *-8. Talk with you then!

Recording support for the talkcast is provided by Call Recorder from ecamm networks.
TUAW Talkcast tonight: 10 PM EDT Sunday originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: TalkShoe - TUAW - User interface - Voice over Internet Protocol - Sun Microsystems
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Apple store is down... and now back up
Filed under: Retail, Internet, Apple
The online Apple store is currently down. Considering it's the middle of the weekend for folks in the Western Hemisphere, and considering that we haven't heard much in the way of rumors concerning new products or product updates, this is more than likely just a maintenance update. We'll be monitoring the store's status and try to determine what, if anything, has changed when it comes back up.

And... it's back up. Nothing much appears to have changed, aside from some reports of pricing changes on refurb iPods and the 'new' badges on some products.

Thanks to the many readers who sent this in.
TUAW Apple store is down... and now back up originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Apple - TUAW - Western Hemisphere - Unofficial Apple Weblog - Macintosh
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