I have had my eye, and ears via podcasts, on Chromebooks, and at last with a price of only NOK 2.2K I ordered a Lenovo N20p 11.6" touch screen device.
It arrived, surprisingly, on the 2nd of January, and took no time to set up as the Gmail account finds everything you have previously set up on Chrome.
On the 2nd I tried out various apps I mainly use, and today I tried more advanced apps like Chrome Remote Desktop, which allowed me to control the iMac and change iTunes, there being no Remote for iTunes app, which is my essential app on various other Android devices.
Evernote on the web is not very attractive, so I can only hope Evernote stop adding features I have no use for, and get down to making the web UI useable.
Otherwise, I was happy to find Chromecast worked well with YouTube (which also has a crap UI).
That's it for now. I'll be back later when my experience is a few weeks old..
Showing posts with label remote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label remote. Show all posts
Saturday, 3 January 2015
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Almost forgot
Another remote control/screen sharing solution for those whose .Mac account has run out - see http://tinyurl.com/yrnrhq and my Evernotes for more info.
"Back to My Mac allows a user log into another Mac remotely via internet. This is a great feature BUT it is only available if you are a .Mac subscriber. However, the new iChat supports Screen Sharing, so the only thing to figure out is how to auto-accept a Screen Share invitation and how to do it securely. This quick tutorial will show you how to set up iChat to do just that..."
Part of the setup requires changing an Apple script to enable auto login, which results in an Apple message every time you start iChat :( - however it all flashed into action, even if the Buddy explanation was unclear, and I wasted hours on trying to get the Buddy window to reproduce the tutorial.. it all worked though, which is the most important thing. I have added a couple of the practical comments entries which make some good suggestions which I haven't yet tried.
Why was I looking for more when I already have Vine viewer working like a charm..? A thirst for more knowledge I guess ;)
"Back to My Mac allows a user log into another Mac remotely via internet. This is a great feature BUT it is only available if you are a .Mac subscriber. However, the new iChat supports Screen Sharing, so the only thing to figure out is how to auto-accept a Screen Share invitation and how to do it securely. This quick tutorial will show you how to set up iChat to do just that..."
Part of the setup requires changing an Apple script to enable auto login, which results in an Apple message every time you start iChat :( - however it all flashed into action, even if the Buddy explanation was unclear, and I wasted hours on trying to get the Buddy window to reproduce the tutorial.. it all worked though, which is the most important thing. I have added a couple of the practical comments entries which make some good suggestions which I haven't yet tried.
Why was I looking for more when I already have Vine viewer working like a charm..? A thirst for more knowledge I guess ;)
Farfinder experience
I installed this yesterday or the day before, and almost removed it at once, but tried again, set up gmail smtp for outgoing email, and away it went on the iMac. Over to the Macbook Air where one should just enter one's special URL and log in. At first it had some hassle with certificates, but accepted eventually both on Safari and Firefox, NOT Opera..
The tool bar had no tool tips, so it was a bit hit and miss, particularly as things are a bit odd ref icon images. Apps show their icons ok, jpgs and tiffs don't, and Preview pdfs show a default icon, whereas Adobe shows ok.
The important thing is that one can while travelling, get access to one's home (or office) machine, and either download or open an item. One can also send an item by email. Thats about it, but it runs on a browser, works on Tiger and Leopard from whereever with no installation on the browser machine... I emailed Susan about it, after a few emails back and forth with Adrian, who is support-cum-developer.
The tool bar had no tool tips, so it was a bit hit and miss, particularly as things are a bit odd ref icon images. Apps show their icons ok, jpgs and tiffs don't, and Preview pdfs show a default icon, whereas Adobe shows ok.
The important thing is that one can while travelling, get access to one's home (or office) machine, and either download or open an item. One can also send an item by email. Thats about it, but it runs on a browser, works on Tiger and Leopard from whereever with no installation on the browser machine... I emailed Susan about it, after a few emails back and forth with Adrian, who is support-cum-developer.
Friday, 18 April 2008
Finally got remote control of Tiger from Air
I spent a lot of time trying to get Vine and later Leopard screen sharing working towards Tiger, but no, I couldn't even ping Tiger or reverse..? I looked also for 802.11n activator software, but didn't feel like downgrading Extreme in order to get it from the extreme package, however, I'm pretty sure its working on N because my 'final solution' - using Vine Viewer on Air and Apple Remote Desktop on Tiger - worked both on AE 24 and TC 5G (only) wireless networks!
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Remote control and screen sharing
Can't remember what started me off yesterday, but I came across Vine in /applications and decided to check it out. It worked fine with iMac able to control AIR very nicely. I got hold of a temporary key to enable the reverse, and that too worked fine, so I decided to transfer my single machine licence to the AIR, thinking that would be the logical place to do most remote work from.
The only thing I couldn't get to work was transfer of Cut & Paste between machines.. this set me off on a search which resulted in a trove of wealth! First from Lifehacker's Gina Trampani (a very bright lady) showed how a couple of lines in Terminal could turn the Leopard's screen sharing app into something a bit better. This worked very well, BUT although there were Toobar icons for getting and sending clipboards, it didn't work :( see http://tinyurl.com/28jdu5
So I continued searching and came across a MacFixit http://tinyurl.com/2jk4yr tutorial with three or four methods of controlling a remote machine.
The one which did most was iChat! That allowed transfer between machines by drag & drop. Another was like Trampani's, and yet another was the one called 'Back to My Mac' this can be started/stopped in the .Mac prefs. It was already on, so I'm not sure whether it might have been in use in the above methods..
Quite a day... I missed dinner and shovelled a handful of nuts in my mouth for sustenance ;) Off to bed and 9:30 pm feeling happy, having learnt so much, even if Cut & Paste didn't work.
The only thing I couldn't get to work was transfer of Cut & Paste between machines.. this set me off on a search which resulted in a trove of wealth! First from Lifehacker's Gina Trampani (a very bright lady) showed how a couple of lines in Terminal could turn the Leopard's screen sharing app into something a bit better. This worked very well, BUT although there were Toobar icons for getting and sending clipboards, it didn't work :( see http://tinyurl.com/28jdu5
So I continued searching and came across a MacFixit http://tinyurl.com/2jk4yr tutorial with three or four methods of controlling a remote machine.
The one which did most was iChat! That allowed transfer between machines by drag & drop. Another was like Trampani's, and yet another was the one called 'Back to My Mac' this can be started/stopped in the .Mac prefs. It was already on, so I'm not sure whether it might have been in use in the above methods..
Quite a day... I missed dinner and shovelled a handful of nuts in my mouth for sustenance ;) Off to bed and 9:30 pm feeling happy, having learnt so much, even if Cut & Paste didn't work.
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