20 Sep

LAN messaging and the home office

Posted by admin in mac.

Reader Bill Phillips would cognate a little more open connection around his home. He writes:

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My wife and I each work at home in our separate offices. I seem to remember that back in the OS 9 days in that place was a way to pop up a message on not the same computer on your network. It would be really helpful for us to be able to do a part like this so we could trade little bits of information back and forth without yelling over the house. Can you do this with OS X?

Sure. Perhaps the easiest way to answer this is to practice iChat’s Bonjour capabilities. On each computer launch iChat, open its Preferences window, click the Accounts tab, and enable the Use Bonjour Instant Messaging option. From the Window menu choose Bonjour List. The names of those running iChat on your topical network will appear in this list. To send your wife a message, just double-click her name in this window and start typing in the resulting Chat With window.

If you want somebody that works a little more like it did in the old days, chide out Jack Beckman’s free LANMessage. With LANMessage up and running upon both Macs, you can send messages from one to other, where they appear in a translucent window. To compose a message just laid bare LANMessage, prefer Preferences from its menu, emblem your notice in the Message province, and click Send. Alternatively, you can run the included Send LANMessage AppleScript, that pops up a message field much take pleasure in the one you find in LANMessage’s Preferences.

To ensure these solutions work you might want to add iChat or LANMessage as a startup item on each computer.