Skype

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I haven't tried this yet but it claims to offer free voice talk over the internet via broadband, plus other features

 

Heres the Info with it

 

 

Nobody’s listening in.

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When it comes to talking, instant messaging or transferring files, we’ve gone to

great lengths to make it secure. Skype automatically encrypts everything before

sending it through the internet. Likewise, on arrival everything is decrypted

on-the-spot and presented as crystal clear speak, text or a file transfer nobody

can intercept.

 

Yes, you heard it right.

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All the security in the world wouldn’t matter, though, if you couldn’t hear the

other person. With Skype, you can. We’re working with the very best in the industry

to provide a sound quality far superior to what you’re used to from ordinary telephones.

If you will bear with us for a moment here we’d like to share some technical stuff

with you: with normal telephones you can only hear sounds from 300 Hz to 3 kHz.

Not so with Skype; We’re all over the spectrum, from the lowest hum to the highest screetch. In other words: ‘F’ and ‘S’ will sound like the two different letters they were meant to, and in the end you will be able to have a much more natural conversation.

 

Getting the words out.

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That also goes for conferences. It’s completely secure for you and up to four

others to get together to coordinate tactics in a game, make one of those important

business decisions or simply have a chat, even if you’re all on different continents.

 

Needle. Haystack. Solution.

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Searching for those long-lost relatives or just somebody to have a quick chat

with is also part of what Skype is all about. We have what we call a Global

User Directory. It’s a giant phonebook of all the people who use Skype. You can use

it to search for people you’d like to talk to, people who have the same birthday or

people who just happen to live in the same street as you.

 

Is anybody out there?

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When you find somebody you know or even someone you would like to know, you add them

to your list of contacts. You can also write a little note to let them know who you

are and why you want to add them to your list. Handy, if your separated-at-birth-twin

finds you on Skype. When people are on your list, you can see if they are online,

offline, busy... or perhaps out to lunch.

 

When actual, spoken words fail you.

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Did we mention that you can also send instant messages with Skype? Well, you can.

That’s nice for when you’re talking about a website and you want to send that really

long address or if you’re writing a song maybe. Either way, you can send one of

those little smiley faces along with your message. Smile to the world and the world

smiles back.

 

http://www.skype.com/