Easy Mac OS X Lion - Kate Binder [46]
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Tip: Something to Share
If you don’t see the Screen Sharing or Connect As buttons, you probably haven’t turned on any sharing services. In System Preferences, click Sharing, and then click next to the services you want to activate, such as File Sharing or Screen Sharing.
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In a Finder window, click your other Mac in the sidebar under Shared.
Click Share Screen to control the other Mac’s screen.
Enter your username and password and click Connect.
Click the Full Screen button to see the other Mac’s screen at full size.
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Note: The Bad News
Back To My Mac only works with MobileMe, so if you don’t have a MobileMe membership, you’re out of luck. You can still use a separate program to control remote computers, such as Timbuktu (www.netopia.com), which works both over the Internet and on a local network.
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Controlling Kids’ Computer Use
Learning how to work with computers is important—in fact, for today’s kids, it’s pretty much unavoidable—but no parent wants kids sitting in front of the computer all day and all night. Mac OS X’s Parental Controls enable you, as an admin user, to set limits on how much your kids use your Mac and what they can use it to do.
Choose Apple menu, System Preferences.
Click Parental Controls.
Click the unlock button, and then enter an administrator account’s username and your password and click Unlock.
Click the name of the user for whom you want to set controls, and then click Enable Parental Controls.
Click the Apps tab and set restrictions on access to the Finder, the programs installed on your Mac, and hardware configuration.
Click the Web tab to hide adult content in the Mac OS X Dictionary and on the Web.
Click the People tab to limit use of email and instant messaging to specified users.
Click the Time Limits tab to set time limits for computer use.
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Note: More Than the Internet
Parental Controls aren’t just about the Internet. Check out the settings on the Other tab: You can control whether a user can burn discs, administer printers, and change his or her password.
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Tip: Mother, May I?
To receive automatic notice that a restricted user is attempting to contact someone who’s not on your approved list, go to the People tab, check Send permission requests to, and enter your email address.
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Chapter 10: Getting an iLife
iLife is Apple’s name for its collection of three “digital hub” programs: iPhoto, iMovie, and Garageband. Along with iTunes and iDVD, this software represents the company’s effort to empower Mac users to create and control their own entertainment media. With iLife, iTunes, and iDVD, you can manage, edit, and share your digital photos; acquire and mix music; make your own music; produce digital movies; and create professional-looking DVDs that combine movies, music, still images, and more.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to get your pictures into iPhoto and organize them into albums. When you have albums, you can print your photos and share them on the Web. You’ll also learn how to import music from your CD collection into iTunes, create custom mixes called playlists, and burn your own CDs. With a visit to the iTunes Music Store, you’ll pick and choose from the latest tunes on the market—at about a buck a pop.
With iMovie, you’ll learn how to import video from your camcorder and add scene transitions to turn your footage into a masterpiece. Finally, you’ll be introduced to iDVD; with this program, you’ll create a new DVD project, preview it to make sure it’s just the way you want it, and then burn it to a DVD disc so you can play it in your DVD player.
Managing Photos, Video, and Music
Importing Photos into iPhoto
iPhoto can do a lot of things, but its most important function is simply providing a place to keep all your digital photos. Think of it as a super-duper photo album, or maybe a filing cabinet for your photos