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Skype Screen Sharing - It works

I have a friend that lives about 250km's east of me and lives on I guess what you could call a farm, or large property. You could say he's a property manager, he works the land! He phoned me up and said he was having some trouble with both his computers and asked if I could help out. What a perfect opportunity to try the new Skype Screen Sharing feature! He signed in after downloading the latest version of Skype and away we went. He has a satellite connection at his property, so it's a little laggy at times, but the voice call seemed to be very clear all whilst using screen sharing. I was able to diagnose and solve both the problems he was having just by seeing his screen and talking him through the steps to solve each problem. I believe it uses adaptive technology to provide the best possible picture for the connection at hand. So it can occasionally look a little blurry or grainy. I should also mention you cannot gain control of the screen at all (at least I couldn't find an option) so you cannot assist, only view. Still pretty good. Now for a screen cap: [caption id="attachment_424" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="i can see u"]

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Skype on AppleTV

Well it's done, and done properly. You know it was actually me that got Skype running on the AppleTV originally. Well Brandon Holland has done the hard work and integrated it nicely into the AppleTV frontrow as a plugin. He's also working on a really tidy Safari plugin Check it out: http://www.brandon-holland.com/skypeplugin.html

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