You know how Skype to Skype calls are free and work? Well, we’ve
taken the same recipe and applied it to file transfers. Since most
things you want your friends to see tend to be rather large, we made our
file transfer work with all the file sizes your operating system can
handle. For most people, that’s between 2 or 4 gigabytes. And
remember, it works from Windows to Mac to Linux and the other way
around. No platform problems here.
 Nobody’s
listening in.
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.
 Yes,
you heard it right.
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: ‘F’ and ‘S’ 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.
 Getting
the words out.
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.
 Needle.
Haystack. Solution.
Searching 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.
Is anybody out there?
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.
 When
actual, spoken words fail you.
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.
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