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25 Tips to Improve Skype is a nice list of tweaks, add-ons and lesser known features you can use to add value and functionality to your Skype software. There’s a range of stuff here, from music sharing via the Last.fm plugin to real time language translation. My fave is the Home Watch ghetto home security tweak, which sets up a quick and dirty security cam in your vacant home.
How versatile is your Skype? Ours can podcast, translate French, take conference calls from 15 people, and tutor calculus. Want to learn how to turn your Skype telephone into a multipurpose office machine? We’re going to tell you how.
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Nigel is the managing editor of the Red Ferret, as well as a freelance columnist for the Sunday Times newspaper in London. Loves tech and fancies himself as a bit of a futurist, but then don't we all?
Nigel – who has written 5161 posts on The Red Ferret Journal.
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