Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users not to share files this time, but to talk and chat with your friends.

Skype is created with an extremely advanced technology but super simple to use... You'll be making free phone calls to your friends in no time!

Our software's quick and easy to get started with. Download, register, install, plug in your headset, speakers or USB phone and start calling your friends.

The calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption. You don't even need to configure your firewall or router or any other networking gear. It just, you know works.

Here are some key features of "Skype":

· When it comes to talking, instant messaging or transferring files, we've gone to great lengths to make it secure. Skype automatically encrypts everything before sending it through the internet. Likewise, on arrival everything is decrypted on-the-spot and presented as crystal clear speak, text or a file transfer nobody can intercept
· All the security in the world wouldn't matter, though, if you couldn't hear the other person. With Skype, you can. We're working with the very best in the industry to provide a sound quality far superior to what you're used to from ordinary telephones. If you will bear with us for a moment here we'd like to share some technical stuff with you: with normal telephones you can only hear sounds from 300 Hz to 3 kHz. Not so with Skype; We're all over the spectrum, from the lowest hum to the highest screetch. In other words: will sound like the two different letters they were meant to, and in the end you will be able to have a much more natural conversation
· That also goes for conferences. It's completely secure for you and up to four others to get together to coordinate tactics in a game, make one of those important business decisions or simply have a chat, even if you're all on different continents
· earching for those long-lost relatives or just somebody to have a quick chat with is also part of what Skype is all about. We have what we call a Global User Directory. It's a giant phonebook of all the people who use Skype. You can use it to search for people you'd like to talk to, people who have the same birthday or people who just happen to live in the same street as you
· When you find somebody you know or even someone you would like to know, you add them to your list of contacts. You can also write a little note to let them know who you are and why you want to add them to your list. Handy, if your separated-at-birth-twin finds you on Skype. When people are on your list, you can see if they are online, offline, busy... or perhaps out to lunch
· Did we mention that you can also send instant messages with Skype? Well, you can. That's nice for when you're talking about a website and you want to send that really long address or if you're writing a song maybe. Either way, you can send one of those little smiley faces along with your message. Smile to the world and the world smiles back

Requirements:

· Macintosh computer with G3, G4, G5 or Intel processor.
· 128 MB RAM.
· 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive.
· Microphone.
· Internet connection (either dial-up: minimum 33.6 Kbps, or any broadband: cable, DSL, etc.).

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Platform specific: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Call Phones and Send SMS window “Type number” text field is too dark
· Chat window does not refresh properly when chatting with a user whose avatar file is corrupted
· When creating a new contact request, the option to request to see the contact's status but not let them see yours is disabled
· In a contact request, the option to add a new contact to your Contact list is disabled when the user chooses not to let the contact see when they are online
· In a contact request, new contacts are added to a user's Contact list even when they uncheck the option to add them
· When screen sharing in fullscreen mode, the user can't click on Skype menu items at the top of the screen
· Platform specific: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard – Layout issues in the video window when a video call is put on hold. The Hold button appears over the Call on Hold message
· Skype sometimes crashes when plugging in or removing a webcam
· Skype sometimes crashes soon after launching when an auto-config (PAC) file was used to connect to the internet
· Skype sometimes crashes when shutting down
· Platform specific: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Main window does not display properly when signing in as another user from the Account menu