Screen Sharing Stack

Since I often screen share into my iMac or mini while on the go, I wanted a way to simplify the connection process.  I ended up with the solution you see above. Clicking either of the icons will fire up the screen sharing app and connect me to whichever computer I selected. It’s also pretty simple to re-create for yourself!

Assuming you already have DynDNS or something similar set up to let you access your computer while on the go, all you’ll need to do is open up Safari and type vnc://yourdomain.here, then click on the globe in the address bar and drag it to your desktop. Double clicking on this icon will now take you directly to screen sharing. Now, all you’ll have to do is find replacement icons of your choice and add them to a stack. Voila!

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The “Open Internet” (Updated)

From Google’s blog post on their joint proposal (with Verizon) for an “open internet”:

…we both recognize that wireless broadband is different from the traditional wireline world, in part because the mobile marketplace is more competitive and changing rapidly. In recognition of the still-nascent nature of the wireless broadband marketplace, under this proposal we would not now apply most of the wireline principles to wireless, except for the transparency requirement.

I’m not sure that I agree that wireless broadband is any different from wired broadband.  Keeping the two separate will only lead to more deals like Skype for Android only on Verizon.  So much for “open”.

Update: Just stumbled upon this fun website showing a PSA that Google put out back in 2006 on what would happen if “AT&T and Verizon have their way”: http://vooglewireless.com/

This entry was written by Ryan, posted on August 9, 2010 at 8:36 pm, filed under Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.