Guest nickcornaglia Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 Anyone try this yet? Just saw it on a computer TV Show (TechTV) A free telephone-type messenger that allows you to talk over the PC for free. If anyone has it, let me know how it works. http://www.skype.com
Guest mcwarre Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 What can this do that Messenger doesn't (apart from probably adding spyware onto your machine)?
Guest benzo Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 I've had a look- It's just a messenger client with voice capabilities. Did any of you use dialpad back in the day. Free phone calls to the US over any computer was pretty sweet! Benzo
Guest nickcornaglia Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 I'm pretty sure there is no spyware. The show that recommended it is really against spyware, spam and the like. And I ran Ad-Aware and it came up with nothing. I was under the impression that it was different than messenger's voice capabilities as it was supposedly better quality and worked more like a phone in that you "call" the other party. I may be wrong as I have not used either program for voice.
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 I've used it... Sound quality is pretty amazing! P
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 I've used it too, pretty good even dialup to dialup...
Guest NederSoren Posted December 31, 2003 Report Posted December 31, 2003 At first i thought it would be a cheap messenger clone, but after installing i found out that the sound in this thing works very well, and that the delay is almost 0 (not like the delay in messenger) Another thing is that messenger is first and formest an text-chat app, where skype is a voice app. The thing about this is, that it is transfering in a new way p2p, like with filesharing in some dodgy place. And thats maybe why its the creaters of some dodgy place who developed this app too :) About spyware: On www.skype.com they promise that the app wont have any spyware, and i haven't noticed anything since i've installed it, not even after a 'Spybot Search and Destroy'-search.. /NederSoren [Edit] Hehe.. oh just forgot.. MoDaCo is so clever.. hehehe.. i cant write the K-word in here, so it automaticly writes armadillo instead :roll: Well.. i hope my text makes sense anyways.. :D armadillo = K -- a --- z--- a --aaa (You can't say that i can't talk about it in here, as the program is not illegal..!!
Guest Firaas Posted January 1, 2004 Report Posted January 1, 2004 I've used it too, pretty good even dialup to dialup... Yeah, there was a very very small lag in my conversations but otherwise it kicked phone-quality ass.
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