What about Cut & Paste for the file transfer. Works a beauty

True, that works as well.

Hey, this is great. How about SMS for Mac, is it out yet?
Always
KMD

Yeah, I had the same question - can't seem to find any information on SMS for Mac - any ideas?

We are working on it, but I cannot give you any launch dates. This is a helpful link for you: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=63927

thanks for the tips guys, i wish i had more contacts

SMS fo Mac please... waiting, waiting, waiting....

I'll second (or is it third) that request for a mac sms setup... for now... there is a brilliant little widget for this... http://keakaj.com/products.htm free within the states and very cheap worldwide...

Hello,

This is off topic, but I just have a comment about the skype for mac video beta page. you mention several cameras, but I can't seem to find the "Icecam" from Macally. It's inexpensive (£20 or so), has an ok image quality, works without 3rd party drivers, works flawlessly with Skype Video for Mac. I've had it for about a month, and it's worth every penny.

As far as I know it's the only "native" camera on OS X (save iSight which is banned within the EU right now.) You might want to add that to your list of "suggested webcams" - just my 2 cents.

(info here http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/input_device/cameras.html )

((and btw. no I'm not trying to sell anything although I realize this might come off as product placement. I really use this cam to talk to a friend who's moved from Norway to New York to study ballet, and now I'm thinking of maybe buying one for all of my mac-using friends here in Norway.

Where is SMS? I really could use a way to send and recieve SMS. This is, and has been, available in the Skype for Windows version for a while now. That means the tech, backend stuff, financial stuff, etc., is all in place. So why is it not in the OSX client? eBay gave you guys several billion dollars. BILLION dollars. Can't you hire someone to write some OSX software? I mean, obviously your current staff of 3 or 4 programmers are a bit overworked, as the current OSX version is at 1.5, lacks video, SMS, etc, and the Windows version is at 2.5 or so now? I don't know if you have heard of the program called AdiumX, but it supports MSN, iChat, Yahoo messenger, ICQ, Jabber, etc. They update and improve that thing, releasing new versions every-other week, and the program is totally free. They have no paid services, nothing.

I use Skype for all my phone needs. I have no cellphone, I have no landline, I use Skype exlusively, and aside from my Skyepout account, I have 3, yes 3 SkypeIn numbers (in 3 different countries). I pay the people at Adium nothing, and yet they pump out a first rate product non-stop. I pay Skype, and yet it's like pulling teeth asking for little things to be fixed, and takes friggin ages. So, really, why can't you people hire some folks who can assist you? It is ridiculous at this point. Did I mention eBay gave you a couple billion dollars already?

The public release (non-beta) verison of Skype with video for OSX should have been out a lONG time ago. But, let's do one useful thing at a time. SMS should be a LOT easier to implement, so why not spend the 4 or 5 days to add that (or week), and then continue on for the next year or two adding the basic, bare-bones, one-on-one only video functionality which is so seamingly diffucult to add.

Lets hear a reponse.

Thanks.

skype..osx,

great, constructive post. :/

I bet the Mac-version isn't generating that much of an income. (We're still a minority, even though it's improving.) I don't know how salaries are where this is programmed, in Norway hiring 3-4 programmers would cost something like £125 000 or $240 000 a year, including taxes. That's a lot of money to cash in on Mac-users using SkypeOut.

I'm generally happy with what I get with Skype. It's less expensive than ANY landline or mobile phone here in Norway, and that pretty much makes it "free" in my head. These extra features such as video and skypecasts aren't making them any money, so those are really goodwill additions to the programs.

Just some food for thought.

Norway? Skype development is based in Tallinn, Eesti (Estonia). The cost of living, and amount paid for employment are far lower than in Norway I am sure. And as far as monitization by platform, I assure you they make FAR more from the average OSX user than the average Windows user. Keep in mind the majority of Skype users are in Brazil, on Windows and are not paying for services. Second is likely China, and they aren't paying for Windows let alone Skype. The average Mac user spends a lot more for services and software than the average Windows user, that is a fact.

I never said anything about Skypecasts, I said SMS. Skype makes money off SMS. And I am not interested in being on the sidelines complaining, I would much rather be a part of the solution. Since I started using Skype, I have regularly contributed bug info, etc, in the 2 years or so I have been working with this software. I would happily move to Eesti, learn Eesti, and programming if I had to, to make this a better program.

Actually, I DID apply to work at Skype. And my interview, just like the software, got delayed, and delayed and delayed! Serious! My interview was re-scheduled and postponed multiple times. When I finally had the interview it went great. I had done a LOT of research on Eesti culture, history, government, etc, and taught myself some Eesti as well. And of course a lot of research on Skype as a company. So, I was set up for a second interview. But, then I got word that the person I interviewed with got moved to a different part of the company, and his replacement would conduct the second interview, and the last I heard I wasn't hired. It was a long, drawn out debacle.

So, I would like to help, but they don't want my assistance. So that's why when I need to send an SMS, and there is no way to do so on OSX, and Skype already has the SMS infrastructure up, and the software up on the Windows version, I ask for it to be added to the OSX version here. Look, my post last night about not having video in gold for OSX yet? Well, look what came out today.

Hey.. too bad with the work application. Hopefully they'll need more people in the future.

Anyways, still not so sure they make a lot on skype for os x, but we'll never know. sms is up next. cool

Skype..osx,

sorry, we really can not tell any release dates. All I can say - we are working on SMS, and trust me, we're spending a LOT of time and resource getting it out the door and... it won't take long. We said that before Video came out and, well... we did deliver that, didn't we? At least I see many people using and enjoying it today.

So, bare with us, SMS will be delivered and we are not 'not caring about the Mac platform'. Vice versa, we have a really good and hard-working Mac team and they all want to make Mac client as good as possible.

kjkjkk

please log me in to my box

Hiding the time indicators in the chat box.

We use Skype for language instruction at LingQ.com and love it. Our tutors type in comments, while the learners (up to 4 at one time) are speaking. At the end of the session we copy and paste these comments into a report, which learners "import" into their own work area for further study.

The only inconvenience is the time indicators. 6.15, 6.20 etc. that show up. Can these be hidden in some way?

Steve (lingosteve)

okay. somehow, my chat drawer moved from the left to the right and now i can't get it back to the left. i'm having a conniption. anyone know how to move the drawer?
thanks
adrianne

@adriannelafrance drag the chat window to the right hand side of the screen, press Command-T to hide the drawer, wait until it's fully hidden, press Command-T again, and hey presto