Skype News

Skype now lets you set your mobile number as your caller-id on outgoing calls. Very nice. I'm set up.

Skype & MS Office

Skype has a new toolbar for MS Office. Works with Office 2007. Things you can do with Skype Office Toolbar

• Start calls to Skype Names and phone numbers written within MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents
• See when the author of a document is online and communicate with them
• Send the file you are currently working on to Skype Contacts
• Turn phone numbers into links within your document

I'll have to give this a try.

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I now have a Skype phone. User name dbigwood. 713-893-5164. Review when I have used a bit.

Skypecasting

Recently we got DSL at home, an upgrade from our dial-connection. So I've been exploring Skype. Nice. Works fine and is simple enough to use. We had used it when traveling and the place we were staying had a high-speed connection. Cora just finished her term as VP for the Texas Music Educators' Association and she often used it at board meetings.

Now I notice there is a service called Skypecasts, lets you talk to as many as 100 people and have control of who speaks and when. Looks like a useful tool. Anyone using it? I'm going to have an experimental Skypecast, just to get a feel for the tool and how it works. I'll just be reading my weekly podcast What's New at the Lunar and Planetary Institute Library. Wednesday evening at 8 Central Time. I have it down for 15 minuets, the shortest time slot they have, but it is more likely to last about 5 minuets, unless lots of folks join and say Hi.

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