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How to configure Apple Screen Sharing to show ARD toolbar and bonjour browser on Mac OS X 10.5

Screen sharing is very useful so is the curtain feature of ARD which is a licensed product from Apple. You can apply a couple of setting to: Show a browser of available machines Display the ARD like tool bar to enable some more features in screen sharing With the above two settings enabled when loading the screen sharing application you will be presented with a browser screen of the available ...

How to rebuild Apple launch services menu via command line on Mac OS X 10.5

In finder when you right click on a file the popup menu has an option called "Open With". This lists all of the applicable applications that can process this file. If this list becomes too large or contains duplicates you can remove the applications and then rebuild the list using the following command line. To rebuild the list open a terminal and enter this command: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain ...

How to configure Apple Remote Desktop remotely via command line on Mac OS X 10.5

Apple Remote Desktop can do many things, by default each machine has the services built in but not started. You can use VNC based clients to connect and manage. The Apple client is not free but very functional and both require some services to be running on the machine you are trying to connect too. Leaving these services on by default is great if you ...