I'm sure people reading this forum will be familiar with all these features but how many of your friends and family are? It's only because we watch the Keynotes and read great sites like AppleInsider that we know about it but realistically we're a tiny minority. With the screen sharing feature by Google Hangouts, the person making the video call can share documents, videos, presentations, websites or any other. Sure this kind of stuff in Windows is way harder and less reliable than on a Mac (ever tried Bluetooth file transfer from Windows) but Apple should still go the extra mile to make this stuff easier to find and use. If Apple could find a way to make these things easier and more obvious it would be enormously beneficial and really help to promote the Mac. I work in a technical environment with several software developers, enthusiast and Mac owners but very few find features like this. 22 free screen-sharing apps for work-at-home collaboration Want to share your screen to collaborate with a colleague, or remotely access someone’s computer to troubleshoot a technical. I have the same frustration with Photos object recognition and AirDrop - both are stunning and "just work" but I've never ever anybody offer to Airdrop anything to me nor found anybody who knew about Photo search. The obvious first step to sharing the Google Hangout screen is opening the app. We will explain the process in step-by-step mode, so even a beginner will find it very useful. In this article section, we intend to explain how to share your Google Hangout screen. Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat were rebranded to Google Meet and Google Chat in April 2020. Invite up to 500 internal or external participants to a meeting. Setting up Back to My Mac can be a bit fiddly too but the biggest problem is that it's so well hidden that very few people know it's possible. Steps to Perform a Google Hangout Screen Share. Present documents, slides, and spreadsheets by showing your entire screen or just a window. Are you saying Screens 4 is much more efficient and uses less bandwidth? I appreciate Apple's Back to My Mac can't be used from an iPad etc and I can say that would be useful although I can't understand why Apple themselves, with their almost limitless resources, don't offer this. Its just that nothing happens when I click the screen share button. Edit2: Just to clarify: Video calls work fine. I've used it to connect to my MacBook at home from my office over WiFi or cellular 4G and it's worked very well (admittedly with connections >30Mbit/s). I am under linux though, maybe there is a difference. When I start a Google's video Hangout and share my desktop, I would like to be able to share only the attached screen, but I don't know how. It would be nice if I knew how to one-click zoom full screen. 57 I have a laptop with a built-in screen and an attached monitor. I’ll admit the small shared screen size was giving a problem for my students. I'd be interested to know why Apple's Back to My Mac feature is intended for use on the same network. I use Google Hangouts for teaching English online, having made the move away from Skype. Apple's one is truly intended for people on the same wifi network
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