Skype 3.5 Beta for Windows released
Everyone's favorite Internet telephony application just released their new beta, 3.5 Skype's really been rolling out the upgrades lately, adding feature and third party developer support like crazy.
The new features include:
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
Some of these are nice, some are really, really handy. You can now transfer calls to any other Skype user for free, or any SkypeOut number with a SkypePro account (which is not, of course, free). You can read more on the Skype blog here. Download the Beta here.
Hat tip: DownloadSquad
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3 comments:
Jeff,
I am always a little hesitant to download the Beta version of things. Have you had decent success in doing this with Skype in the past? I am really bummed that Skypein numbers have gone up so much. I probably will not be renewing mine, as it really gets little use and is now $70 a year versus $30 (around that) a year.
Bernie, I've never had any trouble with Skype's betas. I think I've used everyone since I started following Skype and never had any trouble.
I'm bummed too about the rates generally going up. SkypeOut costs more now too. I think this has as much to do with local telco regulations as anything else. That or Skype, having established a good sized user-base, is raking in some serious cash :)
Just this week Skype released 1.4 Beta for Linux.
We are seriously behind the rest of the world on these closed source apps. Seems the people that have money to do the development in house don't want to spend time with us. If they would open source it, then we could help them get it up to date and help with general development.
Personally I am not a developer, but it seems to me that Skype for Mac (Unix) can't be that much different than Skype for Linux. This 1.4 beta is the first upgrade we have had in 8 months or so. I don't think we have ever had a real release. All the ones that I have seen for Linux are beta.
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