Skype with the new 2.8 Beta version for Mac introduced an exciting new feature: Screen Sharing.

Screen Sharing allows you to transmit the images on your display to the person you're talking to over Skype. You can share your whole screen or just a portion of it. This is really very convenient if you want to discuss a brief with your colleagues or present a job to your client.

While you're sharing your screen you can also speak and switch between Screen Sharing or using your camera to show your face. If you have multiple screens, Skype will ask which screen you want to share.

Skype is about to replace professional videoconferencing tools. They just need two features to crack. Multiple person video and shared virtual workspace.

If you had to decide between 5 new features in Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) or let's say a 20% speed increase in all of your application compared to Leopard (OS X 10.5), which one would you choose?

Check back what you accomplished from your last year's list and make your new resolutions. Wish you a successful new year!

In Finder you can zoom in and out with your trackpad using the pinching gesture.

This feature in Finder only works with the icon and coverflow views. It's very useful when applied to the Desktop, for example if you need to quickly make space for more icons or you want to see the icons of some documents in larger size.

To switch on this feature go to Finder / Preferences / Advanced and switch on Zoom using trackpad.

Notice the new option in Google Image Search. Besides the image size now you can also select the image type. You can choose from "news content", "Faces", "Clip art", "Line drawings" and "Photo content". This makes searching for reference images much more faster. It's not yet perfect, but pretty close. See the results for the search term apple below:

Thanks to Google you don't need complicated tools to set up two way syncing between iCal and Google Calendar anymore. In a few steps you can set up your online and offline calendars to display the same information.

Here are the 3 steps to take:

1. Open the OS X Address book, find your own name and select the menu Card / Make This My Card. This is needed for the meeting invites.
2. Download the setup tool Calaboration provided by Google and run it.
3. Provide your Gmail username/password and select the calendars you with to sync and done.

It works smooth. I only hope for these features to appear soon:

1. Being able to add an entry to a Synced Google Calendar on an iPhone. Currently you can't do that, you can only add an entry to the default calendar, which doesn't sync up to Google as far as I can tell. Hope you can prove me wrong.
2. Being able to sync iCal to-do-list to Google Calendar. For this of course Google first has to release a to-do-list application. Until than we have the Gmail integrated RTM.
3. Calendar entry with time zone conversion support.

Google now allows logged in users to vote for, delete and add new search results for any keyword. What does this mean to you and web site search engine optimization (SEO)? First see the video below about SearchWiki and what it does.

Google has been busy the past few weeks rolling out eye candy for their users. First they launched themes for iGoogle, then video chat for GTalk and now themes for GMail. They look pretty good and there is a good selection of minimalist, high contrast and illustrative themes. They even payed a lot of attention to elaborate footers. See a few more examples below.

Following up on this earlier post about George W Bush ads.

Print and poster work for software-asli.com by Advertising Agency Bates141, Jakarta, Indonesia. See the making of gallery.

It reminds me of Gmail art: