Get your 20 free SkypeOut minutes now, punters. It's the final day of Skype's Summer Thursdays offer, which is a depressing thought for those of us who don't like winter very much. Does this mean it's all downhill from now, the home straight to cold fingers and thermal undies? Say it ain't so...

But enough of this wintry talk. Glad tidings from Skype blogdaddy Jaanus, who reveals that Skype's third birthday brought a rather tasty pressie - more than seven million Skype users online for the first time. (It's my birthday today. Can I have seven million visitors too, please?)