Makes Back to My Mac feature accessible to more Leopard users.
The release notes for the Mac OS X 10.5.2 update mentions, almost in passing, that the update “adds support for more third-party routers” for the Back to My Mac feature. It then provides a link to a support document titled, ” Back to My Mac: Supported router devices (Mac OS X 10.5).”
The article indicates that Back to My Mac should work with all AirPort Express and AirPort Extreme base stations. It provides additional links to information for configuring a base station to work with Back to My Mac.
The article also lists third-party manufacturers whose routers work with Back to My Mac.
If you’re struggling to get Back to My Mac working on your setup, the support document is a good place to start your troubleshooting process.
Andy Piper provides text and screencast about Mac OS X 10.5.2’s ability to see AirPort disks — but not allow them to work with Time Machine. On The Lost Outpost.
Your Leopard menu bar no longer has to be translucent.
One of the things some Leopard users complained about on the initial release of Leopard was the translucent menu bar. Rather than appear at the top of the screen like a plain white (or gray) bar, it now showed the desktop image through it. People with extremely “busy” desktop images found it difficult to read the menu bar.
Here’s an example of the standard, translucent menu bar with the Bamboo Grove desktop picture. I don’t think it looks so bad.
(I kind of like the way the translucent menu bar looks. But then again, I don’t like “busy” desktop images.)
In Mac OS X 10.5.2, the recent Leopard update, Apple added a new setting in the Desktop panel of the Desktop & Screen Saver preferences pane: Translucent Menu Bar. Turning this check box off removes menu bar translucency, returning the menu bar to a plain gray, Tiger-like menu bar.
Here’s what the same menu looks like with the Translucent Menu Bar option turned off.
Oh, and you may not have noticed this at all, but the menus, which are also translucent, are now a little less translucent than they were in the original Leopard release.
Click the Options button near the top of the page, under the “Hello, yourname” greeting.
In the Account Options screen, click the Blog Settings link. You should see something like this, although there won’t be any blogs listed for you.
Click the + Add Blog button to display configuration fields.
Enter your blog’s name in the Blog Name box and select the type of blog from the Blog Type drop-down list. The entry area expands to offer options applicable to your type of blog. Here’s what it looks like for a WordPress blog:
Fill in the rest of the fields. The Blog API Endpoint is the URL to your blog’s Home page followed by /xmlrpc.php. You should know the Username and Password.
To prevent having to enter your password every time you send a Viddler video to your blog, turn on the Remember Password button.
Click Submit.
Viddler checks the information you entered. If it is correct and provides access to your blog, a green “Success!” message appears. Click the Awesome button. The blog is added to a list under Your Blogs.
You can repeat this process for as many blogs as you have access to. And, as you may have noticed, Viddler supports many different blog types, including TypePad, Blogger, Movable Type, Manilla, and Vox. So even if you’re not a WordPress user, you can use this feature. And yes, it does work with WordPress.com based blogs — not just the server install blogs.
What does this do for you? It sets up your account so that whenever you see a Viddler video that you want to embed in your blog, your account information is already provided and you’re good to go.
Have you peeked in the Sharing preferences pane since updating to Mac OS X 10.5.2? Take a look and you’ll see a new option right at the top of the Service list: DVD or CD Sharing. This option, once enabled, makes it possible to share your computer’s optical drive with a MacBook Air via the Remote Disc feature.
This feature makes it possible to use another computer’s optical drive to run installation software on DVD or CD on a MacBook Air, which lacks its own optical disk.
Once enabled, the DVD or CD Sharing feature has one option with a check box: Ask me before allowing others to use my DVD drive. Turning on this option ensures that you approve any shared use of the disk.
The article indicates that Back to My Mac should work with all AirPort Express and AirPort Extreme base stations. It provides additional links to information for configuring a base station to work with Back to My Mac.
You can learn more about enabling the Back to My Mac feature of Mac OS X on page 460 of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Visual QuickStart Guide.
In Mac OS X 10.5.2, the recent Leopard update, Apple added a new setting in the Desktop panel of the Desktop & Screen Saver preferences pane: Translucent Menu Bar. Turning this check box off removes menu bar translucency, returning the menu bar to a plain gray, Tiger-like menu bar.
This feature makes it possible to use another computer’s optical drive to run installation software on DVD or CD on a MacBook Air, which lacks its own optical disk.
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