One of Leopard’s “big new features” is a feature for those .Mac members who got suckered into spending $100/year for Apple’s suite of services which probably are only worth about $50/year, if that much. It has to do with the Finder’s improved sharing features (file sharing, screen sharing, etc.), and it’s called Back to My Mac.
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Apple Remote Desktop is an app that has been around for awhile that provided the ability for an administrator to share and manage the screens of other computers on the network. However, while ARD was great for someone who was an administrator on a vast network of many client computers in order to manage them all, what about someone who just wanted to look at something on their other computer, or someone who wanted to quickly help out a family member on another network? Apple Remote Desktop just isn’t suited, aimed, or priced for something as incidental as that. However, Leopard brings along a brand new Screen Sharing solution to the table, so how well does it work?
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Tags: Back to My Mac, collaboration, features, Finder, iChat, internet, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, network, Remote Desktop, review, Screen Sharing