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If you have Leopard and haven’t tried out at the very least iChat’s built in screen sharing capabilities, I’m wondering why not? It is, for lack of a better word, awesome. I’ve seen and done screen sharing before, but iChat makes it so easy- and pretty darn fast even at a full resolution.

iChat is one way to do Screen Sharing on your Mac, but there is another more advanced way: the Screen Sharing application. Located in /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app, Screen Sharing is a bit more advanced in how you connect to a computer, but otherwise is extreemly simple. It shares your screen. It’s simple at first, but 9to5Mac has compiled a guide on how to make Screen Sharing to more; in their words, become an “Apple Remote Desktop Lite.” Click the link at the bottom to read the full explanation, but here is the short of it:

In Terminal, type or copy and paste the following:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1

If you open Screen Sharing now, you will be able to see a list of local network computers that can be shared. Now quit Screen Sharing and copy and paste this in (all one line) so that you can really get the Apple Remote Desktop Lite thing going:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \
‘NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar’ -dict-add ‘TB Item Identifiers’ \
‘(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)’

This will give you the full array of buttons as seen at the top of this post. These buttons are detailed in the post linked at the bottom of this article, but in general they give you at your fingertips customization options such as locking the computers screen or changing the quality of the screen sharing.

Read [9to5Mac]