Archive for the ‘Skype’ Category

  • Contact List Disabled for Older Skype Versions.

    Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

    If you are using a skype version older than 2.0.0.90, your contact list may have been disabled. It seems that older clients layed huge performance strain on the central servers. So the skype people had to disable this feature. The latest release has a fix for this bug so upgrading might be a good idea.

  • Skype update released, fixing DEP crash.

    Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

    There has been released a new version of Skype for Windows (2.0.0.73, released the 20th of January). You can download it here.
    This fixes a bug that caused Skype to crash when DEP (Data Execution Prevention) is enabled in Windows XP.

  • Flying High With Skype

    Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

    Ever since the beginning of Skype, there has been a high demand for videocalls. It appears that the skype developpers are working hard to get video support in their popular software.
    Since one of the investors of skype has been able to make a first videocall from an airplane, it seems they are making great progress?

  • Skype vs Gizmo

    Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

    I was going to do a comparisson on Skype and Gizmo but Tom’s Networking has done an excellent job already. The conclusion: Skype has the advantage of the huge installed base, gizmo has the features and the open standards which lead to interconnectivity.

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