Skype 1.3 for Mac OS X has been released. With Skype:
• You can now chat with up to 50 people at the same time
• Simply drag and drop contacts to add them to chats and calls
• You’ll be notified of any new events, and see an overview of your services
• Play around with our new animated emoticons
• Support for enhanced notifications with Growl
Skype also offers a Dashboard Widget which lets you dial calls, look up country codes and check calling rates. It requires Skype for Mac OS X and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
More info and download links here.
Cool, good things come to those who wait. Now what about video chat!!
50 people! Holy Crap!
“Cool, good things come to those who wait. Now what about video chat!!”
I agree!
Why these halflings all the time? MSN, WMP and Skype, all amputated and late on Mac!
It´s a bit frustrating, but ignoring these apps wont help, as they might dissapear all together. Now, I dont care much for the M$ apps, but I like the ability to have them on a virus free environment.
Now better times lay ahead of us, as the porting of apps will probably be easier with an Intel inside…
No kidding, a cross platform video chat is MUCH needed!
“…Why these halflings all the time? MSN, WMP and Skype, all amputated and late on Mac!…”
Yeah, maybe… but I’d like to see what the WinDoze version of a Dashboard Widget looks like !!
Use it all the time to talk to Oz, England, Ireland and China. FREE.
Skype is way cool. It is Mac-like enough for most windows users to figure out so you can talk them into doing it. It was almost impossible to convince lower power windozers to go thru the rigamarole to set up for voice or video over AIM so you could connect with iChat.
So if they come out with video for skype, windozers will finally be able to get to where Mac users have been for a while in ease of use in video conferencing – right on time two years later
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You mean if someone has AIM on a Windblows machine, I can’t video-chat with them using my iChat? What if we both have MSN messenger, can’t we video-chat?
“Yeah, maybe… but I’d like to see what the WinDoze version of a Dashboard Widget looks like !!”
I imagine it would look very much like a Konfabulator widget available freely on Yahoo. And Konfabulator came first.
On the plus side I have to say that Skype has been very good at keeping the Windows, Linux and OS X versions of Skype exactly on par. I commend them.
a little ignorant, you do vid iChat to AIM, I am not sure about vid chatting using MSN on the Mac. It is hard to talk windozers into setting up for it cuz it is nowhere near as easy or intuitive as iChat AV.
iChat AV works ok with AIM Windows user at the other end, however there is usually a few seconds delay, and we’re both on decent dsl with newish machines. MSN Messenger cannot Mac to Windows (or vice versa) video chat.
Skype’s VOIP is pretty darn good. Fingers crossed for Skype video some time soon…