If you're a UNIX user before Mac, then you'll probly know this hint and say this lame, and if you're a Mac Only user you'll (hopefully) say "Wow, that's cool!"
OK picture this. I've been working all night long on a PowerPoint Presentation on my desktop at home. In the morning, I pick up my trusty iBook and go to the office ready for my presentation, but I find that I forgot to copy the file to the laptop!
I don't shutdown my desktop at home, and my internet connection is always on. I also allow SSH (secure shell) connections through my firewall, and my Mac has the "Remote Login" option ticked in the sharing prefs (which enables SSH). So I open up my laptop at work, connect to the office network, then open up Terminal and type:
% scp zed@192.9.200.1:/Users/zed/Documents/MySlides.ppt .Note that the above is all one line, and don't forget the fullstop on the end.
% scp MySlides.ppt zed@192.9.200.1:/Users/zed/Documents/It's also worth noting that if your user names are the same on the remote system and the local system, then you do not need to type zed@192.9.200.1 but rather you can just type 192.9.200.1. Replace these numbers with your home machine's IP address, of course.
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20021018063459739