Dedicated followers of Skype may be aware of a couple of new updates to Skype 3.0 for Windows beta – especially those of you who've discovered the Garage in the developer zone.

The Garage is Skype's new venue for preview and beta versions of the software, including the latest Skype for Linux and Skype for Windows Mobile as well as the Windows and Mac versions. It's also your place to find patches, open source contributions and other Skype-based tinkering that's yet to be unleashed upon the general public. This, my friend, is the bleeding edge of internet telephony.

Be warned: if you don't know your rss from your html code, you may find some of the chatter as intelligible as a Greek computer science thesis. But if you're an experienced Skyper and want to stay way ahead of what the company's developers are doing, you'll find the Garage forum fascinating and the resources very useful indeed. Find out more in the Garage blog.