Monday, October 18, 2004
I've also been playing around with Skype the last few days. It is essentially a voice chat application that will let you talk to another person, much as you would talk on the phone, through your PC with a microphone and speakers. The software is free. Calls to other Skype users are free. You might ask your self, but I can do that through AIM or MSN. That's where Skype shines. It was built as a voice network first and the sound quality is excellent, where the others were built as a text messaging platform and voice was added later. That's cool, but the biggest advantage to Skype is that you can call any telephone in the world for something like $.02 a minute. That's way cheaper than any long distance company I've seen. But, here's the downside. I don't know anybody who uses Skype, so I've been unable to actually test. I don't want to pay for minutes unless I can test the free stuff first. Anybody want to help me out?
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