Tag: Skype
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I’m starting to think it’s time to say ‘goodbye’ to Skype
Our company has been standardized on Skype as our primary IM client for a few years now – I initially rolled it out agency-wide in the hopes that people would take advantage of its video calling capabilities to better communicate with our west coast office. As it turns out, that didn’t really happen (a surprising…
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Skype: checking logged in devices
I recently learned that there’s a whole collection of chat commands you can enter from any Skype chat window that enable you to perform a range of administrative tasks. Some simple examples include: /showplaces will list all of the devices you’re currently logged on from /remotelogout will remotely log you out of other devices The…
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Skype v5 for Mac: Web 2.0 design gone bad
I began writing this post prepared to rant about the many ways I dislike the most recent incarnation of Skype for Mac OS X . Then I stumbled onto this and realized I’d be wasting my time: Five Reasons Why Skype 5.0 for Mac Sucks In the past few weeks, as the new Skype has…