ScreenSharing Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Aunt TUAW: What's wrong with Lion VNC?

by Erica Sadun (Sep 9th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I recently upgraded to Lion 10.7 and have found that VNC (I use iteleport) on Lion has not been working. I have searched far and wide across the jungles and valleys of the interweb to no avail. I did find that I am not the only one having this problem. Any help you could provide ...

Skype releases version 5.2 for the Mac

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 5th, 2011)

Skype has released a new version of its VoIP and video calling application for Mac OS X. Version 5.2 includes features such as group video calls (already present in the earlier version) and new screen sharing for its premium members. The company has also posted a tips & tricks page of ...

join.me introduces mobile viewer for iPad

by Erica Sadun (Feb 2nd, 2011)

Today, join.me introduced their free iOS viewer, allowing users to participate in online meetings and screen sharing from their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. A bunch of us TUAWians spent time yesterday afternoon exploring join.me in its browser-based form. join.me is a new ...

ScreenSharingMenulet hits 2.0

by TJ Luoma (Mar 25th, 2010)

ScreenSharingMenulet is a free (donations requested) program which I've mentioned before that runs in your menu bar and gives you access to computers for quick access to screen sharing. My success with Back To My Mac was "spotty" at best until I started using the DynDNS service, port forwarding, ...

Use DynDNS for better success with Back To My Mac

by TJ Luoma (Mar 12th, 2010)

Many folks were excited when Apple announced Back to My Mac as part of MobileMe. Being able to remotely access your Mac from anywhere sounded like magic. We're used to products from Apple that "just work" but for most people most of the time, Back to My Mac "just doesn't." To maximize your chances, ...

Experiencing the iChat woes? Try the Connection Doctor

by Sang Tang (Jan 15th, 2010)

Now in its fifth iteration, iChat has gained a host of features as it has matured. However, the addition of new features has brought on new complexities and requirements, including both hardware and bandwidth issues. For instance, at the time of its release, iChat 3 users needed a minimum of a Dual ...

Mac 101: Add Screen Sharing folder to Dock for quick access

by TJ Luoma (Oct 18th, 2009)

More Mac 101, our series of tips and tricks for novice Mac users. This is really two tips in one. The first is a fairly basic one that new Mac users might not know: you can drag any folder to the right-hand side your dock (to the right of the faint-white lines which separate the Trash from ...

Using DHCP Reservations to overcome Bonjour woes

by TJ Luoma (Oct 16th, 2009)

I love everything about my MacBook Pro, but for some reason it does not like to share its screen. It appears under the "Shared" section of the sidebar in Finder, and file sharing works perfectly, but for some reason screen sharing won't work. The "Connecting To 'MacBookPro'" panel will pop up and ...

ScreenSharingMenulet fills a gap in Snow Leopard's Screen Sharing.app

by TJ Luoma (Sep 20th, 2009)

Every "point-oh" version of Mac OS X usually brings some small bit of pain, as I find some little utility no longer works. Snow Leopard has been no exception. I had been using the version of Screen Sharing from 10.5.4 because it had some "hidden" features which I liked. Unfortunately those "hidden" ...

Screen sharing is caring: Skype 2.8 goes gold

by Sang Tang (Jul 20th, 2009)

The good folks at Skype have just gone gold with the 2.8 update (link) (previously in beta) of the popular VOIP client for Mac OS X. As TUAW previously noted in the beta release of 2.8, the update brings with it support for screen sharing and Skype Access, the company's pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi service. ...

Take Control of Back to My Mac / Screen Sharing in Leopard

by Steven Sande (Jun 12th, 2008)

Glenn Fleishman of Macworld, Wi-Fi Networking News and TidBITS fame has written two new Leopard ebooks, both published today by Take Control Books. The new titles, Take Control of Back to My Mac and Take Control of Screen Sharing in Leopard, are part of the popular Take Control ebook series. Take ...