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Before too long Skype's popularity will overtake that of the humble the landline, as a means of phoning friends and loved ones. Aside from the cheapness of the VOIP system, one of the main reasons I cut off my home phone line was because of the sheer amount of extra things you can do with Skype, such as IM, video chat and file exchange. What's more, it's possible to beef up the application with a range of complimentary apps to add interesting and fun functionality to the program. Here are some of my favourite Skype add-ons:
- MX Skype Recorder - Record your Skype conversations
- Skype Web Toolbar - Integrate Skype with Firefox
- CrazyTalk Lite for Skype - Create your own animated characters for Skype chats
- Skype Office Toolbar - Make phone calls from within Microsoft Office apps
- MySkype - Access Skype from your mobile phone
- Look2Skype - Instantly call or chat from your Outlook contacts
- KishKish Lie Detector - Find out when your friends are lying to you
- Blaze Audio Voice Cloak - Disguise your voice when calling over VOIP
- Amy - Install a free answering machine into Skype
- DoNaut - Brighten up your conversations by adding these fun sound effects
Another terrific add-on to Skype is the new Evoca Skype Call Recorder from Evoca (www.evoca.com), Skype's new web services partner. Just get the call recorder contact and you're ready to record any time. No downloads or updates required! See: www.evoca.com/skype. Record your own voice, and better yet, interviews, conference calls, team meetings, and more. You get a free Evoca member account (15 minutes of recording/storage) that allows you to host the recording online (public or private), email it, organize it into albums/groups, post it to your bog or website in an attractive Evoca Flash player (we auto-generate HTML code for every recording), and even can order a transcription or translation that gets delivered to your email address. If you want more minutes just upgrade to a Pro account and get 180 minutes of recordb/storage (3 hours!)for only $5/month. Keep adding minutes as you need them.
[...] Elsewhere, Yahoo’s leaders finally led in front 300 top execs—with CEO Jerry Yang, president Sue Decker, and surprise guest star Steve Jobs running an inspirational day-long revival meeting, blogs All Things Digital. Yang and Decker have good news: a globally improved Yahoo search interface including Search Assist, a drop-down panel of suggestions for refined searches, blogs Good Morning Silicon Valley. It finally ties together Yahoo’s purchases of Flickr, del.icio.us and Upcoming.org with Yahoo Video and Yahoo Answers, says Search Engine Journal, and Marketing Pilgrim demonstrates just what that looks like in a search for “Britney.” Unfortunately, Business Week relates, it’s just not enough of an improvement to be a Google killer. [...]
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