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• Forward calls to other Skype Names or regular phones.
• Pause iTunes automatically when you get a call.
• Express yourself with mood messages.
• Simply drag and drop contacts to add them to chats and calls.
• Support for enhanced notifications with Growl.
All Skype calls are encrypted.Nobody’s listening in.
When it comes to talking, instant messaging or transferring files, we’ve gone to great lengths to make it secure. Skype automatically encrypts everything before sending it through the internet. Likewise, on arrival everything is decrypted on-the-spot and presented as crystal clear speak, text or a file transfer nobody can intercept.
Skype calls are in excellent quality, better than regular phones.Yes, you heard it right.
All the security in the world wouldn’t matter, though, if you couldn’t hear the other person. With Skype, you can. We’re working with the very best in the industry to provide a sound quality far superior to what you’re used to from ordinary telephones. If you will bear with us for a moment here we’d like to share some technical stuff with you: with normal telephones you can only hear sounds from 300 Hz to 3 kHz. Not so with Skype; We’re all over the spectrum, from the lowest hum to the highest screetch. In other words: ‘F’ and ‘S’ will sound like the two different letters they were meant to, and in the end you will be able to have a much more natural conversation.
You and up to four other people can have a conference on Skype.Getting the words out.
That also goes for conferences. It’s completely secure for you and up to four others to get together to coordinate tactics in a game, make one of those important business decisions or simply have a chat, even if you’re all on different continents.
Skype Global User DirectoryNeedle. Haystack. Solution.
Searching for those long-lost relatives or just somebody to have a quick chat with is also part of what Skype is all about. We have what we call a Global User Directory. It’s a giant phonebook of all the people who use Skype. You can use it to search for people you’d like to talk to, people who have the same birthday or people who just happen to live in the same street as you.
Is anybody out there?
When you find somebody you know or even someone you would like to know, you add them to your list of contacts. You can also write a little note to let them know who you are and why you want to add them to your list. Handy, if your separated-at-birth-twin finds you on Skype. When people are on your list, you can see if they are online, offline, busy... or perhaps out to lunch.
You can send instant messages with Skype.When actual, spoken words fail you.
Did we mention that you can also send instant messages with Skype? Well, you can. That’s nice for when you’re talking about a website and you want to send that really long address or if you’re writing a song maybe. Either way, you can send one of those little smiley faces along with your message. Smile to the world and the world smiles back.
1 Contacts & events
Your home base gives your a handy overview over your contacts and if they're online or not. The little panels tell you if you missed a call or received a voicemail. Next screenshot »
2 Making a call
To call someone on Skype, just find that person in your Contact list, and click the big, green button. Next screenshot »
3 Talking
Calls to other people on Skype are crystal-clear � some people says it feels like the person is right next to you! When you don’t feel like talking any more, just click the red button to hang up. Next screenshot »
4 Conference call
Talking on Skype is more than just 1-on-1. You can make conference calls with up to four other people, and you can all talk to each other at the same time. Next screenshot »
5 Call regular phones
With Skype, you can call other people even if they don’t have a computer. It’s called SkypeOut, and lets you call any phone number in the world at pretty low rates. Next screenshot »
6 File transfer
Need to send an important document to your colleague? Downloaded a cool picture from the web that you want your friends to see? Just send it over with Skype file transfer. It’s secure and encrypted like the rest of Skype, and handles files of any size. Next screenshot »
7 Chat
You can type in addition to talking and you can invite up to 48 other friends to join in and make it a group chat. Chat is great for sharing gossip or organizing your next party! Next screenshot »
8 Video call
Smile, wave or say hello to anyone, anywhere in the world with free one-to-one video conversations.
New in version 1.5.0.75:
• improvement: registration process is started right after EULA has been accepted
• bugfix: fixes some case where chat window appears all empty upon opening old chat
• bugfix: 011 was incorrectly considered as international prefix in some cases, making it impossible to dial some local numbers which had area code starting with 011
• bugfix: when contact list was filtered out, but address bar didn't have focus, the "Call This Number" button was not working
• bugfix: buttons in the confirmation dialog to clear history were not translatable
• bugfix: size and position of call window was not saved as expected when dialpad was open during a SkypeOut call
• bugfix: Crash: Searching for contacts
• bugfix: On Panther Menu bar doesn't work at all.
• bugfix: no call out ringing
• bugfix: Wrong part of chat comes up
• bugfix: import contacts showed too little email addresses to be searched
• improvement: you can set SKChatHistoryApplication to specify app to open chat history
• bugfix: Connection port is not random, it was always 54045
• bugfix: fix a bug of displaying (null) and no counry name in html titles of chat flag images
• bugfix: fix crash on receiving (flag:xx) in chat with illegal country code
• bugfix: SKIconMenuButton is not released on chat close
• bugfix: SkypeChatDisplay along with it's WebView is not deallocated on chat close
• improvement: Mouse over on Emoticons will tell you what they are.
• change: behavior of search window changed
• improvement: show flags in chats, like (flag:xx)
• change: add mood message to echo123
• bugfix: EventSpeech.strings corrupted
• bugfix: EventSpeech.strings duplicate entry
• bugfix: High CPU consumption while ringing
Bonus - Skype Widget
This widget lets you dial calls, look up country codes and check calling rates.
System requirements
• Macintosh computer with G3, G4, G5, or Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.3.9 Panther or newer. (The widget requires Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.)
• 128 MB RAM
• 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive
• Microphone
• Internet connection (either dial-up: minimum 33.6 Kbps, or any broadband: cable, DSL, etc.)
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.7 or later, Microphone, Internet connection.
System support
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/
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