I received an email at the start of the week from Skype notifying me of their newest release. I was a bit disappointed when I arrived at the Skype site to find a Windows only update. What about us Mac folk? Huh? Fear not..
Skype this evening released version 2.7 of their popular VoIP application for Mac consumption. Thank you Skype. I was wondering if you forgot all about us!
The beta release introduces Skype to the OS X Address Book for the first time. This allows you to grab and share your contacts between the two applications.
There is an improved management of your contacts list within the application too. You can now group them into more manageable categories. You can get to this feature by clicking on the cogwheel icon on the main screen.
You can download the beta release by following this link.
Be weary though. A lot of users are reporting issues with this beta release. Users are saying that Skype is running slow and dropping connections at regular intervals. This may be related to the beta release but it also could be related to a general outage issue. You can read up on their encounters via the comments in the press release for Skype beta.
August 20th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
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