August 2006

LinuxPlanet reviewed Skype and found it works just fine and costs “peanuts”.

I simply loaded Skype on my Linux notebook, bought some minutes on the Skype Web site, and started talking. Mac and Windows users will also find versions for those platforms.

A basic set of ear-buds and a small handheld microphone were all I needed to make calls. And, they packed into the laptop bag easily. The sound quality was very good. I started out with a USD 10 credit. Over the course of several days, I rang up about an hour of talking… for the travel budget-busting price of around US$1.60.

So here’s a short description of how to make skype: links in your browser work.

Applies to Mozilla (Firefox) and Konqueror. Assumes you have skype-action-handler installed in /usr/local/bin - adjust path as appropriate.

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Yesterday we’ve released a small update to the open beta of 1.3.

The most important features include:

• web presence privacy option - now you can make your web buttons work!
• minimum window size change - now you can make skype main window much more narrow, which is a Good Thing (tm)
• /alertson and /alertsoff commands are implemented - so no more DND because of that chit chat popping up all the time.
• skype-action-handler is included - it is a small helper program that will allow you to follow skype: links in your browser and magically have it end up in your skype! Try this. You will need to do some manual setup before, the docs will be available shortly. I hope to automate setup for the next releases too (and if someone knows how to add custom uri handlers support to Opera - let me know :))
• the default sounds do not crack at the end.

Get the update here.