Skype

As some of you might know, I have family and friends in Germany. I have some family in Poland as well and friends in Newsealand and Canada. You can imagine, that it is not easy to stay in touch when you're so far away, but Skype offers great help to do exactly this. I heard about it first from my sister. She downloaded it on her PC- for free may I add - and told me to do this as well so we can write to each other and talk to each other for free. I wasn't convinced at the beginning, but after she got my cousin to download it as well, I thought it's worth trying it out. The different options: There are different options on the skype.com webside. ...  Read the complete review

>>>>>> What’s Skype? In nowadays Internet world, Skype, like Ebay and Amazon, becomes a common word in daily life. The reason it becomes popular is because Skype is a free piece of software that allows people to make free calls to other Skype users and cheaper calls to phones worldwide with fair good qualities. Skype was firstly built to aim good voice communication over Internet and nowadays video as well. There are many similar products in this area namely MSN, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ. But these all start with text communication through Internet although they have already started to allow voice and video chatting long time ago. I have been ...  Read the complete review

How many of us here have a home phone? How many of you have a mobile? Well, if you thought that was all you really need, there is a new phenomenon sweeping the net at the moment that looks like its going to prove to be the next big thing in communication technology. For years I have been chatting away to mates on Yahoo or MSN via their voice chat facilities. I have mates all over the world and this has literally saved me a small fortune. However the quality of the 'calls' really wasn't ever up to much. That, and the fact that you had to always click the 'talk' button every time you wanted to say something, kinda stifled the conversation in my ...  Read the complete review

I was first introduced to Instant Messaging (IM'ing) when I used Yahoo and MSN messengers. These were very good tools, especially for having text conversations with friends and relatives residing locally and abroad. Since there was no extra cost other than that of a basic internet connection this was a very good option for the purpose. Note that the version I am using at the moment is 3.8 (Help->About Skype get's you to where you can see the version number) and older versions may not have some of the features I will be discussing here. SKYPE is a software application that allows you to communicate with people from different locations around the world, over ...  Read the complete review

Skype is a VOIP (voice over IP) program that recently hit the news due to the takeover of its parent company by eBay for $2.6 billion. Launched in 2003, Skype quickly overcame critics who were sceptical of the program due to the developers being the same people who had brought KaZaa (a peer to peer file sharing program that was bundled with 'spyware') to market. Today, Skype has over 53 million registered users across the world, with the software available for a multitude of systems including Windows, Mac OS, Linux and even portable devices. As is to be expected, the installation of Skype onto a Windows PC is incredibly easy. Once you have ...  Read the complete review