Cool stuff your Mac can do that you didn't know part 15

Did you know you had a VNC server built in your Mac?
 In researching the use of a Mac for a media server, I stumbled upon this fact. You switch on Apple Remote Desktop, download the app below and you can remotely control your machine from another machine. With VNC you can use ANY computer, regardless of platform, to control your Mac. So the media Mac in the basement doesn't even need a montior, and I will control it anywhere in the house.

Chicken of the VNC - Geekspiff

Chicken of the VNC is a fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it's right next to you. Chicken features automatic server discovery via Rendezvous; an auto-scrolling full-screen mode; keychain integration; CPU performance throttling; smart unicode keybindings; mouse button emulation and native multibutton support; tons of supported transfer encodings including Tight and ZLib; and customizable

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