Jun 21 2012
Here’s a tip for Australians out there after the 5.3 magnitude earthquake the struck Victoria yesterday. I use a service called “If This Then That” or Ifttt for short which is a great way of getting the output of an online service and piping it into something else that may not be natively supported by …
Mar 03 2012
A lot of people use Skype to stay in touch with friends and loved ones and sometimes the video quality can be let down by a number of things including: poor bandwidth (slower connections will only support lower resolution video), poor connectivity between you and the other party on the call, lower quality or less …
Feb 27 2012
Okay Windows Phoners, you’ve been hanging out for this for a while and now there is light at the end of the tunnel. Skype for Windows Phone is now in beta as per this announcement on the Windows Phone Blog and you can try it out for yourself. However, it seems to be region locked perhaps to …
Aug 14 2011
Well, I have had about 24 hours with Mango Beta 2 for Windows Phone 7 and wanted to share with you some of my first impressions of this forthcoming update for this mobile platform. While it’s speculated for a September release, I could easily see this being delayed to October or later by the carrier …
Nov 14 2010
If you are using an older version of Windows Live Messenger you may have noticed that URLs have been disabled (i.e. they are not clickable). Microsoft has taken this step to help prevent a worm spreading through its instant messaging service (although presumably someone could still copy and paste the link manually into a browser). …
Oct 15 2010
Another quick one for tonight (running the university assignment gauntlet again). Skype 5 has been officially released today and still retains the group video call feature. It is still worth nothing that the feature itself is still in testing despite the software now being out of testing. A new feature has also been incorporated called …
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