Skype for Mac allows you to call your contacts and video chat with them, as well as make phone calls to landlines or cell phones. It's also capable of hosting. The Skype for Mac interface is easy to use. Friends are shown in a list. Clicking on a friend and accessing the communication controls is simple Skype for Mac is almost a prerequisite for anyone serious about business communication. For personal communication, it will depend on what your. I'm writing this from overseas. I took my Powerbook G4 with me and have connected up to a wireless ADSL network at my friend's house running at 512kb/sec. I am hoping to be able to call my children back in the UK every day while I'm here. I have Skpye on my PC so I was hoping to use the Skypeout facility to ring their landline. However, for some reason I was unable to buy credit with either of my credit cards so that scuppered my plan. Can anyone suggest alternative VOIP software that I could try which might be more successful? I only need to be able to ring UK landline numbers, not mobile phones or PC-to-PC. I can of course call using a normal telephone but obviously this is likely to be much more expensive. (Image: Rawpixel Ltd/iStockPhoto) has become a tremendously popular service for connecting with family, friends, and colleagues for remote meetings, chats, and interviews. So popular, in fact, it has become the vernacular for 'video chat' among many. Consumers often use 'Skyping' as a verb, regardless of the service they actually use to connect. While perhaps the most common software for voice and video chats, Skype is not the only service available to people who want to connect with colleagues across the country or friends around the world. [New in 2016.] A growing number of companies have begun to offer services you can use to call others from your PC. These range from downloadable desktop software to Web-based services for quickly generating links for private chat rooms. Microsoft has done a lot in the last year, but there are several companies that also have strong VoIP and video chat capabilities. ![]() These could serve your calling needs as well as -- if not better than -- Skype. Here we dive into a few of these services. Would you think about making the jump from Skype to any of these options? Do you use one that didn't make this list? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section. Kelly Sheridan is the Staff Editor at Dark Reading, where she focuses on cybersecurity news and analysis. She is a business technology journalist who previously reported for InformationWeek, where she covered Microsoft, and Insurance & Technology, where she covered financial. Thank you for providing some alternatives to Skype. Skype may work ok as an app on a smartphone but it sucks when using it with Linux Mint 17.3 operating system Since Microsoft took over Skype they probably don't like providiing Skype access to another operating system than Windows. It took several attempts to install Skype on my laptop and it only worked for 3 months before giving me an error message when trying to log in. I contacted technical support and was told to uninstall then reinstall their newer versions for Linux. Neither version would install and as a result I lost my extensive contact list. I cancelled my subscription and am looking for something better. When you load Skype, press Ctrl-Alt-Dlt and check your memory usage! I have only 4Gb with more than 85% taken up mainly by Skype. The worse fact is, if it is loaded during the boot, the memory bug will already be there. The worst is, if you have other programs running in the vbackground, Skype will prevent memory to be freed even if you logout and/or quit Skype. It is mainly due to relevant svchost. You can delete the task that takes up GB'2 of memory manually and if lucky no other vital tasks will be stopped and you will see that memory usage will go to 15% from 85% or so.
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