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Remote and Screen Sharing Windows Computer in Mac

Users  may want the ability to control and share their Windows screens wirelessly on Mac Os (Leopard/Snow Leopard) in an easy way.

This tutorial will show you How-To remote a Windows computer, screen sharing it on Mac with WiFI connection or with Ethernet available

Setup Remote Desktop Connection

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

Install it like other software in Mac. You shall  see a Remote Desktop Connection icon in Application folder after installation

Configure the built in Airport Express or Ethernet to have IP statics. 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.

Airport Express have same setup with Ethernet

Configure Remote Desktop Connection

Before you will remote your Windows computer, you can configure the Remote Desktop Connection software to use themes, play sounds from Windows. The later feature is 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, show desktop background like your Windows screen,  Windows themes force Mac to display Windows themes

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

Remote and Screen Sharing Windows Computer

Run Remote Desktop Connection, it will ask you Windows computer IP or name before click Connect button

A window popup ask you to insert Windows login.  You must enter same username and password  with Windows login.  You also enter same Domain  with Computer Name in Windows system properties. Click OK

After that, you will see Windows login, 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?

Resume Download on Mac's Safari browser

You probably know Safari can resume download. Suddenly, you must shutdown your MacBook for unexpected reasons, for instance it runs out of battery.

You are turning MacBook on after the battery is full, you will  find out that there’s no resume command when you resume your download

It sucks when it’s happening in the middle of big files download.

What to do? Clear download window but don’t reset Safari (Edit > Reset)
Safari has  saved all downloads in download directory.

Open download directory, find Safari icon with loading bar on it. That shows you can Resume Download. Click it twice before Safari download windowwill  pop up ..bingo! Your download back on

A Simple Way to Share Fonts on Mac

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