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CHAPTER 21 WORKING WITH REMOTE SERVERS AND NETWORKS<br />

already known to the system. You can just hit the Publish button, and your collection will be<br />

turned into a web page and uploaded to your .<strong>Mac</strong> account. When it’s done, you can visit your<br />

collection online and send the link to your friends to check it out.<br />

Figure 21-8. Publishing to .<strong>Mac</strong> in Delicious Library 2<br />

If your friends are using Delicious Library as well, your collection will automatically be<br />

added to their computers so they can browse your media from within Delicious Library. You<br />

don’t have to take any additional steps. All of that stuff is handled automatically by .<strong>Mac</strong>.<br />

Informal Networking<br />

It wasn’t that long ago when there was no Internet to which regular people could connect. Back<br />

then, setting up a local area network in your house was far too expensive to be feasible, and<br />

wireless networking wasn’t even something most people could fathom. Yet, whenever two people<br />

had a file they wanted to exchange that wouldn’t fit on a 1.44 MB floppy disk or they wanted<br />

to play some head-to-head Doom, they were always faced with the same problem: how the heck<br />

do we connect these two computers?<br />

Even when the Internet was well established and routers were cheap, creating a small, informal<br />

network between two or three computers was always a big challenge. Fortunately, the<br />

modern <strong>Mac</strong>intosh makes these arrangements, known as ad hoc networks, extremely easy to set<br />

up and use.<br />

Target Disk Mode<br />

The first question you have to ask yourself is, why do I want to connect two computers? A lot of<br />

times, as then, it’s to exchange files. Whether it’s to copy some work from a laptop to a desktop

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