I have never really been a great fan of Social Media, I just fail to see the bigger picture on what it is meant to do for you and in my eyes just lets everybody know your business. When Google plus came about, it was exciting at first but as time moved on, it just became the very same as the rest, people spamming stuff on there and touting there business. What caused me to pull back once again from my chosen social sites? What made me drop contact with people I respected and treated as friends? What made me jump right back to Skype?
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Turning my Back on Social Media
Goolge+ is the novelty wearing off?
Google gave a fantastic tool not so long back to the chosen few called Google+ and unlike Buzz before it, this one actually could look like it will work. While the rest of the product is some fluff that on it’s own would be no different to twitter and such, it’s the hangout’s that are the cream of the crop. At the moment in Beta, there is limited control in who does what and it is pup to the people in the hangout to keep control somehow. I have started to see cracks though forming as people revert to more traditional methods (such as Skype).
Skype 5.1 – no more multi video chat
Now that 5.1 is out of beta, Skype has two price plans for those who want to hold a video conference call. You can either fork out $4.99 for a day pass, presumably for people who only want to hold once-off or rare group calls, or you can purchase a monthly subscription for $8.99 per month. Also included in these “Premium Packages” is live chat customer support.
While a bit late on the news front, for those that are not aware Skype has brought out version 5.1 and along with this they have taken away the ability to Video chat with more than one person. When VOIP company Skype announced group video conferencing last year the company was very clear that it was only free for the time being. Though it didn’t elaborate on how much it planned on charging for the feature, the company made sure we all got a nice long taste of the good life.
ASUS AiGuru SV1 Skype Phone
You can get Skype on your computer and you can even get Skype on your mobile phone plus there is various telephone looking methods but this device looks more like a conventional desk phone. It was introduced back in 2009 and I must be honest and say that I had not seen this device anywhere during this time. The price for this unit seems to be about £200 ($275) but this might be the touch screen version (this one I am reviewing is not touch screen).
HotMail Compromised
It has been some years since I have even bothered to look at Hotmail or in fact MSN Live Messenger as it is now called. As I removed most of the Social networks now which includes Twitter and Skype – I thought I would install MSN once again and see if anybody was about for a chat and such. It had been such a long time that I had forgot my password – I went through and reset this to something I would know though still hard to guess. Once I booted up Messenger, it informed me I was already logged in somewhere else and it would log me off that location (very odd). As I had so many email I had not read in years, I set up Outlook to also grab the mails.
Skype on the HTC Hero
In the news today I read that Skype had finally released – you can read it on there blog and basically it states it is for all Android phones running 2.1 or 2.2 of the OS. There was me in my previous post getting rid of Skype due to lack of use and today we see it can be used on my phone – deep joy.
Goodbye Skype
I thought I would take a break from Tech for this one post and go through some changes of late, some good, some bad and as always “Everything changes” as they say. The Blog is going well, I am looking forward to my first cheque from Google Adsense (which only took me three years to hit the required minimum of £60) – money for nothing right? I do hate adverts and I hate having them on here but they are required evil to keep the site going – Sorry…
Skype Beta 5 Version 5.0.0.123
Just a heads for people currently running Skype Beta 5, although the software tell’s you that you have the latest version – if you check out the Beta page you will find it has been updated today – 2nd September 2010. Might be worth a shot even though it is Beta, I had no major problems that I could not work around and who can forget the multi Video conferencing.
VodBurner – Record Skype Calls
Record Skype Video Calls and Edit for Free with Vodburner
Need the ability to record Skype Video calls and save for later use such as uploading to youtube and such? Well VodBurner claims to do this and for free.
Skype 5.0 Beta 1 Group Video Calling
On the Skype Beta page at the moment, for Windows Only (for now), you can get the latest very of this program 5.0 Beta 1. One of the main features that have been introduced is Group Video Calling. With this release, you can have 5 max video’s per conference – this means you and 4 other people can have a video chat.
Also in addition to introduction of group video calling we have re-designed the call view. The new call view is focusing on the ongoing call and taking away all possible disturbing factors like other conversations. If you like then you can still see the other conversations and data there also.
Remember that this is a beta release which means that we are still working on the release and that there are some rough edges in. Consult with known issues list below first before running it. We do not support Windows 2000 in this beta release.
