How To Use Skype As Your Main Home Phone Line
It's 2013 - stop paying for a land line. If you've got broadband Internet you can set up Skype, pay for a subscription and and keep your total home phone bill under $5 a month – long distance to phones throughout North America included (rates vary for other countries). Kannon showed you how to save hundreds on your mobile phone bill in three easy steps, and Skype can save the day with its cheap long-distance plans.
My Skype Got Hacked: Here's What Happened & How I Fixed It
It’s so embarrassing. Here I am, a contributor at MakeUseOf with a background in data security, and I’m about to tell you how my Skype account got hacked. Not years ago before I became aware of the various threats and the signs that an intrusion had occurred, but recently. Just last Christmas. The worst thing about this is that I’d noticed that there was something not quite right about the way the account was behaving.
The End for Windows Live Messenger: What Are the Alternatives?
If you've been a dedicated user of Windows Live Messenger, it's time to start considering your options for future messaging. Today we'll talk about how you can migrate to Skype, what alternative chat options are out there and how you can make the whole transition easier for yourself.
Skype For Mac: Video Call All Your Friends, Apple-Style [Mac]
There are already a few articles on MakeUseOf about the features available for Mac's Skype such as its group video client, experience-enhancing tips, and even some shortcuts that you may not know about. However, we've never really talked about the app itself. Overall, Skype for Mac is an app that performs in a solid manner, and I have a feeling that I will end up using it time and time again.
Skype - The Best Tool For International Video Conferences & Cheap Phone Calls
On the surface, Skype looks like an application for text, audio, and video chats, a great way to stay in touch with a friends. Only that it's more than that. Skype is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) messaging service that offers a range of advanced features.
3 Skype Security Issues and Threats You Should Know About
The world’s favourite voice over IP, text, voice and video chat system, Skype is one of those rare things, an app that has found a place in the hearts and minds of computer and smartphone users regardless of what operating system and manufacturer they have allegiance to. Of course, as any scam-aware users (and indeed, scammers) know, where there is widespread use of a piece of software, there is an opportunity to rip someone off, usually with malware.
3 Tips To Make Skype More Enjoyable [Mac]
Skype, in terms of software design, continues to baffle me. It's beautifully designed, and most of the time it's also charmingly easy to use, but once in a blue moon you discover these little quirks that rain on your Skype parade. It may be how the application masterfully ignores basic interface guidelines. Here are some three very basic tips to make your Skype experience on Mac OS X a more enjoyable one.
How To Build Your Own Baby Monitor
If you're a recent parent, you've probably considered getting some sort of baby monitor. You possibly considered the utility of a video monitor and then you may or may not have balked at the exorbitant price tags they come with. There are dozens of great ways to set up a baby monitor using webcams, old computers and a bit of geek know-how.
The Top 5 Best Third-Party Apps To Customize Your Skype App
Skype is a great way to communicate with friends, family and colleagues across the Internet using its text, voice and webcam chat features. But it can all get a little bit dull, using it in the same way, day after day. But Skype is thankfully equipped with all of the necessary hooks for third party apps to customize and improve the experience.
5 Reasons Google Hangouts Are Cooler Than Skype For Video Chats
Hangouts is Google's take on chat rooms. Like many times before, Google has turned a good idea into something incredibly useful, while preserving simplicity and ease of use and thus making it fantastic. In this article I will focus on what it is that makes Hangouts so great and definitely cooler than Skype.
10 Tips To Get Most Out Of Skype Video Conferences
With the right setup, Skype can be a great tool for private or professional video conferences. Video chat requires quite significant resources from your computer. This article will walk you through the basic preparations that should precede any use of Skype and it will conclude with specific tips for video conferences.
The 5 Top Windows Phone Instant Messaging Options
One of the most important uses for a mobile phone is messaging. Whether you’re thinking of SMS text messaging, email or online instant messaging networks, being able to communicate with others by typing rather than speaking has been an essential feature since the 1990s. Windows Phone has several instant messaging options available.
New Skype Version For Windows Brings Facebook Video Calling From Within Skype [News]
Skype is tightening its Facebook integration, and has released a new version for Windows, Skype 5.8 (the same update for Mac is on its way). The new version introduces audio and video-calling with Facebook friends, even if said friends are not even using Skype.
4 More Awesome Skype Apps You Should Install [Windows]
Skype is a useful and popular chat and VoIP application, which can become even more useful after installing some Skype apps.There are lots more things you can do with Skype apps, such as launching multiple accounts, adding spell checks, translating chats and initiating calls with one click.
Skype 2.6 Comes To Android, Adds File Sharing [News]
Are you worried that the 26 different apps that show up when you want to “share” something with your Android device weren’t quite enough? Skype has you covered. They have just released Skype 2.6 for Android, and one of its major features is the ability to send documents, photos and video.
3 Must-Have Skype Apps To Enhance Your Chat Experience
Skype is a free video and audio chat client that is available for many different platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Google Android. One reason Skype has been so successful is that besides high quality online audio and video chat, it offers cheap rates for calling phones and mobiles around the world. What most people don't know is that Skype also supports apps.
Tango - A Budding Skype Alternative For Android, iOS & Windows
The world of Voice over IP is expanding fast, and we’re getting more and more options for calling our friends without paying cellphone providers. The strongest, and most known contender in this area is obviously Skype, and they’ve been rather good at it. However, Tango offers a pretty good alternative, especially since the latest updates to Skype have not been to everyone’s liking.