Author    Date May 15, 2010   Category   Trackback 
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Skype 5 Beta Download

A lot of people use Skype to communicate with family and friends hundreds and thousands of miles away. Skype uses a “service” called VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) to help maintain long distance relationships of all kinds. Up until this point you were only able to video with a maximum of one person at a single instance, but with the new Beta 5 you can now chat with multiple friends, co-workers, family, ext. Now you have to keep in mind that it is still in beta and that its not going to be “as stable” as currently released versions of Skype 4. There, besides multi-video chatting, has been some other updates like the “on a call” GUI has changed to have a blue and black gradient just like the video chat has. Smaller things like a different GUI for screen sharing , upon many other small but noticeable changes have been made. If you would like to try out the beta go to http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/windows/beta/ and download and install it.

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Marc Billow
Author: Marc Billow
Hardware and Software Geek, Apple Junky, and well, for lack of better words, Me! have always had a knack for anything computer related and have always had the need to expand my knowledge, combine the two and that sums me up.
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Comments (7 Responses)
  1. Taylor Jasko says:

    Wow! Excellant post!

    The number one thing is video chat. This will come in handy for a lot of people. But I wonder how it’ll bet on bandwidth. Have you tried it at all, Marc?

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