Skype Video On Your iPhone
Sure you have facetime on your iPhone, but wouldn’t it be cool to have video support for Skype on your iPhone? After all, there are only 6 facetime users in the world and billion of Skype users. Seems that a document that was released a bit too early points to Skype’s CES announcement as being [...]
In Case You Missed It: Week 42 Round Up
In case you missed anything this past week, we have everything from cooling with mineral oil to video editing on your iPhone. Enjoy. Gadgets Asus Keyboard PC Gaming Cool Your Xbox With Mineral OilPS3 Smashing Into A TV At 80 KMHOpen Source DS Bluetooth AdapterBlack Wii For The BritsRock Band For iPhone Now Available Hacking [...]
Skype And Chrome Go Portable
The guys over at PortableApps.com have been turning out great portable apps for years now. Apps that you can easily put on a USB flash drive and run from any machine. All of the software that they offer is open source, until now that is. PortableApps has decided to add a handful of closed source [...]
DIY: Turn An Old Cell Phone Into A Skype Phone
In todays age of smart phones we all have an old cell phone laying around somewhere. Some of us might even have 3 or 4 laying around cluttering up their desks and work spaces like I do. So why not turn one of them old brick units into a functioning Skype phone, it’s not like [...]
Skype With Style
Using VOIP has become quite easy, so much so that my mother has dropped her landline and gone strictly VOIP. Now more and more people are adopting VOIP, microphones and headsets are a way of the past. Take the Tatung VOIP handset, it features bluetooth, WIFI and has a touchpad design. It’s currently only a [...]
Howto: Improve Skype Quality
Ever run into bad sound quality while using Skype? Well, you might want to try the following if other reasons like blocked ports or p2p background processes aren’t to blame. Delete the shared.xml file which contains host cache information which is nothing more than a list of Skype super-nodes and host pairs that are needed [...]
Apple TV Gets Skype
For those of you looking to add Skype to your Apple TV then look no further. The unofficial Skype client for the Apple TV is out. I’m sure they have some serious bugs to work out like the fact that there is no microphone of web cam on the Apple TV (minor details for Skype, [...]
Custom PSP 3.90 Firmware Out
It was only days ago that Sony announced the 3.90 firmware for it’s portable gaming system, and only days later crafty hackers have created a custom version of the firmware that support all the 3.90 goodies including Skype. To boot, you can also update your PSP to the custom firmware via the new network update [...]
Skype On Your PSP
A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that the PSP might just be getting an update that would include Skype. Well it looks like firmware 3.90 is out now bringing Skype support to the PSP-2000 models and expanded Playstation Network support to all models. I would how long it will take the homebrew community to [...]
German Govt Skype Trojan Revealed
Wikileaks has released some scanned documents from the German police revealing the governments intent to intercept Skype voice calls. The publication of the documents is causing a massive storm in the German Press. The first document is a communique between the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutors office about the cost splitting for the technology. [...]
PSP To Get A Keyboard
Sony is just on a roll, First the announce Skype for the PSP then a GPS unit and now a Keyboard. We’ve all seen third party keyboards for the PSP, but it now appears that Sony is crafting their own first-party keyboard. Gamespot reports that the design hasn’t been finalized yet (the image above is [...]
Skype for the PSP?
Are all of the rumours true? Will my PSP once again become a usable device (actually I do use it quite frequently to watch video, it has an awesome battery life and great screen). Seems like this screen shot was snapped from Sony’s 2008 CES website and it’s something that is definitely not out yet. [...]
Skype on your iPhone
Shape Services has announced its IM+ Skype service for the iPhone. The service is actually web based in order to get around the lack of third-party application support, but otherwise works just like a regular client. You can chat, as well as do Skype to Skype calls, and you can even call regular phones if [...]
Skype wont let me log in!
Hello all, Here’s the latest on the sign-on problem. We’re on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day. An encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again. We know we’re not out of the woods yet, but we are in better shape now than we [...]
Microsoft kills Skype
Well not technically, Microsoft’s Windows Update caused a reboot of a substantial amount of Skype’s authentication servers. “Normally Skype’s peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.” — Skype Heartbeat Blog – [...]
