October 2005

Last week I caught up with Skype’s very own Inspector Gadget “James Peck”.

At Skype James is the man when it comes to getting your hands on the latest toys and gadgets, each morning there is a huge crowd of eager Skype people around his desk waiting to try out the latest batch of toys that have arrived over night.

If you’re a gadget freak like me, then take a look at the interview with James to see the cool stuff he has been using recently.

I’ll be uploading a QuickTime format shortly for all the non Windows people.

You’ll find the interview in the Skype Channel in the Learning Zone

On Friday night when most of you were enjoying an alcohol induced haze, myself and Kevin Delaney from Khaoslabs were recording a video interview on how you build Application to Applications using the Skype API.

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If you use Skype, then your family probably uses Skype as well, and like me you are probably responsible for topping up their account when it gets low.

If so, then take a look at Skype Groups.

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I am pleased to announce 2 more Skype events that will give you the opportunity to learn more about Skype, meet some of the people from Skype, and share a few drinks with us.

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I just uploaded the video and sample code to the Learning Zone for the Introduction To The Skype API session from Skype Night in Palo Alto.

I also fixed the link with the Opportunities to develop new products using the Skype API video I posted this morning. Something strange was going on because of the long filename, so I shortened it and it works fine now.

Continue reading "Getting started with the Skype API" »

It seems like a lifetime ago when we held the Skype Night event, but better late than never.

Continue reading "Opportunities to develop new products using Skype’s API - Video" »

If you have been a beta user of the Skype toolbars then you will know just how useful they are.

If not, imaging you are hungry, you use your PC to go to your favourite online pizza company to browse the menu, so why shouldn’t you be able to make a SkypeOut call directly from the web page and order your pizza? The toolbars let you do exactly that.

Continue reading "Skype Toolbars for Outlook and IE are released" »

The Learning Zone will give you exclusive video interviews, chats, demos, training and more from the people around Skype, our partners and our developer community.

It’s your way of keeping in touch with what’s going on with the world of Skype, and seeing some cool stuff along the way.

Continue reading "Welcome to The Learning Zone Video Series." »

If you have been developing Skype applications then you will have probably used the “Skype Tracer” tool.

If you’re not familiar with it, Skype Tracer enables you to try out Skype messages to see what they do before you go to the effort of writing code.

German Koninin the Skype Tracer developer has just released version 2.0 of the tracer tool, along with the source code.

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Are you new Skype user? If so then we need your help.

We are looking for a group of volunteers to take part in a focus group in the London area to help us make Skype even better, in return you’ll be reward with goodies for giving up your time.

To take part you need to be a fairly new user and only used Skype for a short time.

If you are interested in taking part, send an email to “research ‘at’ skype.net” and they will get back to you with more details.

Today we have a couple more entries in to the extras gallery for you – keep them coming!

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If you are a Firefox user then you are probably a little jealous of your IE colleagues proudly boasting about their Skype toolbar for IE.

Well relax, because this is for you.

Continue reading "Firefox Plug-in" »

Have you ever wanted to turn your Microsoft Windows XP Media Center (MCE) PC into a communications machine? If so then a cool upload has just been entered into the extras gallery.

Continue reading "Skype and MCE" »

I finally worked out how to upload pictures to the server. So take a look at the shots from Skype Night and see if you can spot me.

If you are in the UK and feel that you missed out (you did it was a great night) don’t worry you may get the chance to meet us soon. - Stay tuned!

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