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Long gone are the days when you’d have to save up for weeks to make a
long distance or international phone call. Thanks to Voice over IP
technology and the widespread availability of broadband it’s now
possible to talk free of charge to anyone in the world.
Skype
has made the technology accessible to all through it’s simple and
fun-to-use chat-style interface. The program is gaining in popularity,
meaning the community of users you can chat to for free is expanding.
This update certainly contains some decent additions to the previous
version, most notably its webcam facilities. This means you can now
watch your buddies as you chat to them and let them see you if you want.
You can use the program to chat with other Skype
users anywhere in the world for free either via telephone or the
built-in chat feature. However, some overly optimistic users may be
disappointed to learn that you still need to pay for credits to make
calls to landlines and mobiles with Skype, through the SkypeOut function. Luckily, this is a very painless process, and Skype has recently added a plethora of different ways to pay.
The program is perhaps even easier to use than ever, with streamlined
new tools such as the ability to add a contact from the main Skype
window and contact grouping for arranging your friends, family and
colleagues into categories. You can even import contacts from Outlook,
and find out if any of these use Skype. The
changes to the interface and its icons may confuse existing users for a
while, but once you get used to it, the new GUI is arguably more
intuitive than ever.
As we’ve come to expect there’s plenty you
can do other than just having a two-way conversation with a friend,
including inviting other users into a conference, setting up chatrooms,
exchanging files, and viewing the history of your contacts. You can even
set up customized voicemail to record messages while you’re away from
base.
Features:
· Make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world
· See who you are talking to with free video calls
· Chat with up to 100 people in group chats
· Conference call with up to four people for free
· Call ordinary phones with SkypeOut
· Superior sound quality
· Works with all firewall, NAT and routers ? nothing to configure!
· Friends list shows you when your Skype friends are online and ready to talk or chat
· Super-simple and easy to use
· Your calls are encrypted "end-to-end" in order to safeguard your privacy
· Based on cutting edge peer-to-peer technology developed by the creators of Kazaa and Joltid
Release notes:
New Release
Improvements:
· Select and pin your favorite contacts
· Facebook and Skype contacts combined into one Contacts list
· Easier to understand premium subscription notices
· Possibility to control Skype video rendering technology for backward
compatibility for people who have trouble with video calls
Additional Fixed Issues:
· Skype crashed when exiting Skype during a screen sharing session
· Video calls with iOS devices may sometimes have been displayed improperly
· Video calls did not always resume on the Call Monitor after a screen sharing session
· Call Monitor was not always closed at the end of a call
· Transferred files with names in Korean characters were not displayed cor
