Skype 2.0 Beta Video for Linux

Skype’s latest 2.0 beta for Linux adds long-awaited video chat features to the popular freeware, cross-platform Voice over IP (VoIP) application. Video chat has been available in Windows version of Skype since 2005 with video support for Macs introduced about a year later, so the addition of Linux rounds out Skype’s excellent feature set to include free video chat for all. It’s not uncommon for the Linux version of popular cross-platform apps like Skype lag behind, but it’s always nice to see them catch up with the pack.

Skype 2.0 beta for Linux: the Great Revolution

Skype 3.5 Beta for Windows released

Skype 3.5 Beta is out, with a bunch of new features, including call tranfering.

The newly released version of Skype, 3.5.0.107, hosts following new features and changes in comparison with latest 3.2 release, in addition to those it has numerous bug fixes:

• feature: Auto redial
• feature: Call Transfer
• feature: Device Indicators
• feature: Edit chat messages
• feature: Message history loading granulated
• feature: Private Telephone Numbers
• feature: Send contacts inside chat
• feature: Visual indicators for Audio In / Audio Out in options
• feature: Show examples of notifications / alerts in options
• feature: Added Latvian localization - Intars Students
• feature: In-Client Hardware store button
• change: Extras Manager updated to version 1.2.0.261
• change: Options categories smoothly slide open and close when changed
• Updated language files: Arabic (Eriksen Translations Inc.), Bulgarian (Nikolina Filipova & Nikolay Filipov), Czech (Petr Silon), Danish (Eriksen Translations Inc), German (Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli), Estonian (Eve Loopere), Greek (Panagiotis Sidiropoulos http://www.magenta.gr ),French (Fabrice IMPERIAL & Bruno Lépaulard), Italian (Daniele Conte), Japanese (Mayu Shimizu), Hungarian (Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik),Latvian (Intars Students), Lithuanian (Viktoras Kriukovas), Norwegian (Stig Auestad), Dutch (Kees Koenders), Polish (Karol Szastok), Portuguese-Portugal (Francisco Ferreira, Portuguese-Brazil (Leslie Predrotti), Finnish (Heino Keränen), Swedish (Anders Olsson), Russian (Eriksen Translations Inc), Romanian (Péter Henning and Mónika Iancu), Turkish (Ömer Emin Dede)

You can download the new beta version of Skype here.

Technorati : Skype 3.5

Skype 3.2.0.152 Final

Changes in 3.2.0.152:
- change: Call forwarding setup banner
- change: Extras Manager updated to version 1.2.0.257
- bugfix: Error 2739 while installing Skype

Download : Skype 3.2.0.152 Final

Technorati : Skype

Skype 1.4 Alpha for Linux

Skype 1.4 Alpha for Linux has been released,a test version which will give you a sneak-peek into how the next major release for Linux will function.Here are the changes:

• Audio quality improvements, on par with Windows 3.2 and Mac 2.6.
• More reliable code, thanks to a major rewrite building on Trolltech’s Qt 4.2.
• Better device detection
• ALSA plugins support
• UI improvements for file transfer and general layout

Skype for Linux 1.4 can be downloaded from following locations:

• Generic
• Static

Technorati : Skype 1.4 Linux

Skype v3.2.0.115 Beta / v3.1.0.152

Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users – not to share files this time, but to talk and chat with your friends.
The technology is extremely advanced – but super simple to use… You’ll be making free phone calls to your friends in no time!
Use Skype to give your friends a call and voice chat with them at the highest quality on the market.

key features :
· Make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world
· See who you are talking to with free video calls
· Chat with up to 100 people in group chats
· Conference call with up to four people for free
· Call ordinary phones with SkypeOut
· Superior sound quality
· Works with all firewall, NAT and routers – nothing to configure!
· Friends list shows you when your Skype friends are online and ready to talk or chat
· Super-simple and easy to use
· Your calls are encrypted “end-to-end” in order to safeguard your privacy
· Based on cutting edge peer-to-peer technology developed by the creators of Kazaa and Joltid

Download : Skype v3.1.0.152
Download : Skype v3.2.0.115 Beta