Remote Control Mac

You can use screen sharing in iChat.

Regards,

Captfred

That's about as easy as it gets. Both sign on iChat, click the screenshare icon underneath the session and you can swap back and forth between your screen and theirs. It asks permission so your neighbors know when the screenshare is active and they can see what you're doing so they will learn as well.

Captfred

As suggested iChat Screen Sharing would most likely be the best. You could even get them their own AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) accounts, if they do not have a MobileMe, AIM, or gTalk style account already configured in their iChat client.

iChat Screen Sharing has the advantage that you can also be talking with them while you are working on their Mac via an iChat Audio connection.

A reasonable alternative would be TeamViewer.com which is very straight forward to download, start and make a connection to the other side. You do not need an account, you do not need to register. All you need to do is have your neighbor tell you the connection code.

You could try Skype screen sharing, but like iChat, you need to have an account for both your and your neighbor(s)/friend(s)