With Skype’s free software – by the way, it works
seamlessly with your internet connection – you can chat away with free
Skype-to-Skype calls and never worry about cost, time or distance. Share
the love and get your friends to download Skype so you can talk, chat
or make video calls for nothing. You can also make local, long distance
and international calls to phones and mobiles at great rates too.
Skype
is jam-packed with great features to help you stay in touch with
friends, family and co-workers, share your thoughts and find the
information you need.
You can use it on a computer or get Skype
on your mobile so you can keep in touch on the move, whatever you’re up
to. Skype works on a wide range of mobiles, plus on devices like the
PlayStation Portable (PSP). There’s also a great range of WiFi and
cordless phones with Skype built-in.
Just for starters you can instant message with anyone on your
contact list or even use group chat to chat with up to a hundred people.
You could hold a conference call with up to nine other people to
organise a get-together and then use SkypeFind to search for the perfect
venue to hold it.
There are also really cool video features. All you
need is a webcam to make free video calls or even take photos of
yourself to personalise Skype.
If you use Microsoft Outlook,
Outlook Express, GMail, Hotmail or your mail account with Yahoo! then
it’s a simple task to import contacts and get them all onto your Skype.
If they don’t have Skype yet you can send them invite to download it –
then you can talk for free (and maybe you’ll even get a nice bouquet of
flowers and a chocolate bar from them to say thanks for getting them
onto Skype? We’d like to think that’s in order).
Got friends on
MySpace? Get them to download Skype or MySpace’s version of Skype. Then
add them to your Skype contact list and you’ve got even more people to
talk to for free. Simply search for them in Skype and click the
MySpaceIM tab in the search results.
Adding someone to your
contact list is easy. But you can also add people who are not yet on
Skype and call them on their phones and mobiles at pretty cheap rates
wherever they are.
Also, if your Microsoft Outlook contacts have
phone numbers, you can have them show up on your contact list so you can
call them. You’ll need Skype Credit or a monthly subscription to make
calls to phones and mobiles.
The business version of Skype has the
same features as the standard version; however, it also includes Windows
Installer (commonly known as MSI) which makes it easy to install Skype
across your company.
Use Skype to give your friends a call and voice chat with them at the highest quality on the market.
Here are some key features of "Skype":
- 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
