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Top 10 interesting tips to enhance Skype experience
Skype comes with some very interesting features which makes your phone calls more fascinating and wonderful. It also breaks the age old monotony of just a 'hello'
Skype is doing a lot to break the monotony of a phone call. Here are the top ten interesting features that comes with Skype and makes your phone calls more exciting and fascinating.
- Filtering and Blocking Users: Nowadays you need to be very careful when people call you and try to trick you by asking you for credit card and other financial information. You might land up with an empty bank balance. This is known as Vishing (VOIP phishing). With Skype you can block your unwanted calls. You need to select Options and select Privacy. Here you can choose the level of security that you think is best for you.
If you want to block anybody individually, you can block him or her by clicking on Manage blocked users in Options > Privacy.
- A DIY Home Security System: You can keep an eye on your house whenever you are away. You just need two separate Skype accounts, a computer at home with a webcam, and access to the Internet. Using one account, setup the home version of Skype to auto-answer calls and automatically switch on the webcam. Then to check in, just use the second Skype account to call the first, and the webcam video will come up.
- Recording calls: There are so many add-on options for recording Skype calls and the free Audacity audio editor is one of them. But Audacity has to be switched on manually, which becomes a major disadvantage. On the other hand we have many Skypes recorders that start up automatically. HotRecorder is one of those which allows searchable Meta text to be added to each recording, and works with Google Talk and other IM clients.
- Disguise your voice: With the help of DoNaut you can disguise your voice and can play pranks with your friends. You can also have some background music while you are on the call.
- Universal chat and language translation: With Skype you can communicate with the world without any language barrier. You can use Universal Chat Translator and you can communicate with anyone no matter what language they speak. This applications produces text translations like the way you are watching a foreign movie with the subtitles. The Universal Translator can read text in 11 languages.
- Creating a Lip Syncing Avatar : CrazyTalk allows you to create your Skype video avatar and have him or her lip-sync to whatever you say. This add on is very simple to set up and will allow you create your own custom avatar from any digital photo.
- Bringing Skype to your TV: If you are watching TV and you get a skype phone call, you don't want to get up without knowing who it is. Well with mcePhone you won't have to get up to find out who is calling, as your incoming Skype calls will pop up on your TV screen and will let you know who is calling. From your TV you'll be able to see your own Skype-Status, the number of SkypeOut credits you have, which of your Skype friends are currently online, and whether you have any new voicemails. And when you get a new call, a small window will pop up letting you know who is calling, and it will let you decide whether you want to accept, ignore, or reject the call all by remote control.
- Skype Announces who is Calling: This is something like a personalized ring tone. Its difficult for you to remember all the ring tones set for different callers. How about, you getting audio on the phone speaker saying “Call from Pete” Well, AudioID allows you to setup an individualized announcement for each caller that will play over your computer or home speaker system.
- KishKish Lie Detector: KishKish the Skype Lie Detector detects the stress level of the person you are talking with over Skype, and it uses that information to detect when they are lying.
- Multiple Logins: You can setup multiple logins, so that everyone in the family can use their Skype ID whenever they want. This is for the time being, compatible with only Windows XP.
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