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Terminal Tips: More reliable SSH connections to your Back to My Mac hosts

by TJ Luoma (Nov 10th, 2010)

Back to My Mac is a feature of MobileMe that allows you to connect remotely to your Macs. Usually this is for screen-sharing or file-sharing through the Finder, but you can also connect via SSH. In the Terminal app (found in /Applications/Utilities/), you can connect via Shell » New Remote ...

Ask TUAW: DVD Sharing on an iMac, menubar calendar, network scanning, and more

by Mat Lu (Mar 22nd, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about using DVD Sharing on an iMac (instead of a MacBook Air), ignoring Software Updates, getting a drop-down calendar in the menubar, seeing Wi-Fi network channels, using iChat with other services, and ...

Stolen laptop returned courtesy Back to My Mac information and police work

by Mel Martin (Dec 15th, 2009)

In late August we told you the story of 'Jim' who had his Mac laptop stolen along with some other computers and household goods. For the heck of it, he tried using Back to My Mac to find his machine. Back to My Mac is a feature of Apple's MobileMe service. Jim was surprised to find the Mac was ...

Apple thefts continue, but don't work so well for the crooks

by Mel Martin (Sep 2nd, 2009)

Another day, another dumb criminal gets snared by Apple technology. In this case, 2 dumb criminals. This latest foiled crime involved the theft of 4 iPhones from the Apple Palisades store in West Nyack, New York. According to the Journal News up that way, the two crooks ran from the store, and ...

World's dumbest crooks: the saga continues

by Mel Martin (Sep 1st, 2009)

Yesterday we told you about some crooks that broke into a house and made off with a couple of Macs and a PC. We recounted how the victim used his replacement MacBook Pro to screen share with the stolen device, and even watch as someone filled out an online form to find a job, displaying an address, ...

Ask TUAW: Lotus Notes to iPhone, Time Capsule storage, uninstalling Haxies, and more

by Mat Lu (Jul 23rd, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly Mac troubleshooting Q&A column! This time we've got questions on syncing an iPhone with Lotus Notes, expanding storage on a Time Capsule, preventing iCal event invitation emails, uninstalling Haxies, and more As always, your suggestions and questions are ...

Take Control of Back to My Mac / Screen Sharing in Leopard

by Steven Sande (Jun 12th, 2008)

Glenn Fleishman of Macworld, Wi-Fi Networking News and TidBITS fame has written two new Leopard ebooks, both published today by Take Control Books. The new titles, Take Control of Back to My Mac and Take Control of Screen Sharing in Leopard, are part of the popular Take Control ebook series. Take ...

Back To My Mac alternative: TeamViewer

by Steven Sande (May 30th, 2008)

Back To My Mac got you down? After the 10.5.3 update, all BTMM is telling me is what I already know -- my Comcast-supplied router is old and doesn't support NAT-PMP or UPnP. iChat Screen Sharing works, but really needs someone on the other end of the connection to activate it. Yeah, Timbuktu has ...

Back to My Mac not working? Apple knows.

by Scott McNulty (Dec 5th, 2007)

Back to My Mac is one of those 'wow' features of Leopard. It lets you connect, securely, to a remote Mac (running Leopard) and access files and control it from any other internet-connected Mac (which also has to be running Leopard). At least, that's what it is supposed to do. Many people, including ...

Use Back to My Mac without .Mac

by Erica Sadun (Nov 7th, 2007)

As far as "Back to My Mac" is concerned, Apple presents it as a .Mac-only enhancement. Melvin Rivera pointed us to his blog post showing how to use Back to My Mac with iChat. This technique isn't for the faint of heart. It involves editing system preferences, modifying AppleScript, and causing your ...

Apple posts Back to My Mac information

by Scott McNulty (Oct 16th, 2007)

It looks like .Mac subscribers are going to get a little more out of Leopard than the rest of us. .Mac's Back to My Mac feature is new in Leopard, and is pretty neat. Basically, it allows you to connect to a remote Mac over the Internet and access files or log into the Mac remotely. I imagine this ...

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