Skype

[UniTyler]

Does anybody on here have Skype? For those of you who don't know what it is, it's a free internet talking program. It's like a telephone call only free, internet based, and you talk with your computer microphone. You can find info and download it easily here at www.skype.com . For those of you who DO know what it is and have it, please share your skype name with us! I looked up "unicycle" on the search utility and it came up with Bruce (possibly Yoopers?) with the name "unicycle1wheel" and it also came up with Leo V. with the name "unicyclenet". If you don't have it, PLEASE download it, it is awsome! My name on it is "unicyclist_tyler" and Evan Byrne's is "unicycleman". Try it out, sometime, it RULES!

[Evan Byrne]

Very True, awesome program.

[Gilby]

I installed skype yesterday...

[Evan Byrne]

Yo, What is the Gilbsters address?

[Gilby]

Originally posted by Evan Byrne
Yo, What is the Gilbsters address?

As if I want to be anoyed by everyone wanting to talk to me...

In any case, the username had to be over 6 chars, so gilby was not possible, so try to guess. :)

[Evan Byrne]

Serch Results fro Gilby:

Glibto
Gilby,
Gilby.
Gilby1




wichh are you?

[Gilby]

Originally posted by Evan Byrne
Serch Results fro Gilby:

Glibto
Gilby,
Gilby.
Gilby1




wichh are you?

None of those.

[Evan Byrne]

Then tell us what your name is.

[Gilby]

Originally posted by Evan Byrne
Then tell us what your name is.

My name is Kevin "Gilby" Gilbertson, but most just call me Gilby.

[Evan Byrne]

Dam, i thought it was Fred Gilbertson, arrgg.

[leo]

I'm unicyclenet (without dot)

I use skype for months after seeing an interview on engadget.com
I skipped voicemail, but I took Skype-Out, and recently Skype-In (and voicemail comes free with Skype-in).
I've now pointed my 866-UNI-CYCL to my Skype-In number.
When someone dails it, it rings in my iBook. Aint that cool?

There is also a Skype threath in the German Forum.

[UniTyler]

Is it "Gilbito"?

[Gilby]

Originally posted by tylercox
Is it "Gilbito"?

That would just be sick.

[Catboy]

Heck, it's better than my old program...

SN: mm_catboy

[KcTheAcy]

I had that right when in came out but noone used it so I uninstalled it. Is it catching on now?

[Evan Byrne]

YO, Kac, get skype, all you people, get skype!

[UniTyler]

Yea! Everyone has it, now get it!!! Oops, Evan beat me!!!!!

[drewation]

add me: drewation

[kington99]

So if i get this program, i'll be able to hear even more from Tyler? Well that's sold it for me.

[Evan Byrne]

YO, you guys, comon! get skype! we have a uni chat going,Leo, Eric, ME, Tyler, LEo, it rules!

[MERCYME]

Man I have windows 98 computer :(

[yoopers]

Okay, it's downloaded. Now what? :)

[drewation]

i must admit tyler isint acctualy as bad as i thought :)

[UniTyler]

Wow, thanks, Andrew! Can you now take that out of your sig line?

[drewation]

Originally posted by tylercox
Wow, thanks, Andrew! Can you now take that out of your sig line?

alright :)

[UniTyler]

Thanks! (again)

[DarkTom]

I just installed it

found tyler cox on the list, remembered he started this thread.

someone skype me if you want. i wanna try it out!

T.

[Brian MacKenzie]

Originally posted by drewation
i must admit tyler isint acctualy as bad as i thought :)

Because he hasn't figured out how to post 10,000 pictures of himself through audio yet

[DarkTom]

Originally posted by Brian MacKenzie
Because he hasn't figured out how to post 10,000 pictures of himself through audio yet

Nah, man. Tyler just phoned me and he's a cool wee guy!

T.

[UniTyler]

lol

Yea, it was fun talkin to Tom even if I could barely understand him! ;) It was funny when he tried an american accent and I tried a scotish accent. He did really well, actually, he sounded kinda like a rapper. How did I sound, Tom?

[e39m5]

eh, ventrilo is better.

e39m5

[Gilby]

Originally posted by tylercox
lol

Yea, it was fun talkin to Tom even if I could barely understand him! ;)

You actually could understand him?

OK.. he's getting better. :) Or maybe I am...

When I was in the UK I could understand him, but I think he was trying hard and speaking slowly for me. I was actually able to understand him better than I could understand most the brits.

[leo]

I called Tom last week at 04:20 AM GMT+1...
Then I dicovered his accent... and found out he was'nt from America.
I could understand him. Years ago I've done circus for a while in Scotland. I remember I had a hard time, but did pretty well. When I was leaving I was tired from spending so much concentration on understanding people. When I was about to leave, on the airport, I made a friend -an English acrobat- almost pee in his pants when I ask the employee behind the desk to if she could speak proper English.

Also it was nice to speak with Bruce (Yoopers).
And yesterday I had someone from Indiana who'd made his first ever Skype call to me, because he just searched on "unicycle".

[Tim]

Ok I got it the funny part is my sister DL'ed it the day before I first saw this thread and I thought it was spy wear or something. I mean its called skype thats a strange name.

tnuarb is my user name.

look at this wierd add I saw on the top of the page of this thread

[leo]

Skype was made by the makers of of KaZaA, which was spyware. Skype is not.
What you see is AdSense (https://www.google.com/adsense/).

One other hylarious thing was a Skype user in the army. He got an unpleasant visit of some Militairy Police who start investigating what he was doing on his computer. When he said Skype they lost their stress. Skype calls are encrypted, and the admin was scared that top-secrets were flowing away.

[Tim]

Haha I talked to DREWATION for like 3 minutes. It was "hi" "Hi" "lots of breathing...." Tim "unicycle" Drew "yeah" Tim "So do you even go on xbox live?" Drew "sometimes" "I have to go." Tim "bye" Drew "bye"

ah skype is great

[DarkTom]

Originally posted by tylercox
lol

Yea, it was fun talkin to Tom even if I could barely understand him! ;) It was funny when he tried an american accent and I tried a scotish accent. He did really well, actually, he sounded kinda like a rapper. How did I sound, Tom?

You sounded different to what I expected. Your attempt at scottish was well funny, me n pebbles were giggling away!

[i]Originally posted by Gilby [i]
You actually could understand him?

OK.. he's getting better. Or maybe I am...

When I was in the UK I could understand him, but I think he was trying hard and speaking slowly for me. I was actually able to understand him better than I could understand most the brits.

Aye, man. I was! I remembered the puzzled look you gave me when I was introduced to you in Germany! And the subsequent strange looks whenever I spoke to you! I thought "cool, another english speaker" (it being Germany) but alas this was not the case.

At BUC a lot of people had bother understanding me!

I'll try harder to speak slower and pronunciate n shit next time that thing rings!

T.

[UniTyler]

So, what did you expect me to sound like, Tom? Like deeper or gothic or something?!? ;)

[DarkTom]

Originally posted by tylercox
So, what did you expect me to sound like, Tom? Like deeper or gothic or something?!? ;)

Aye, man. I thought you'd be totally gravel voiced and husky sounding. As if you smoked 60 a day.

Nah, I actually thought you'd have a high-pitched squeaky voice and giggle loads. Turned out me n pebbles were giggling more than you!!!

T.

[Tim]

Tom whats your username? or just contact me tnuarb.

[halfbike]

Hey tyler, add me. Mine is unicyclist_Thomas. Yes I copied you...

[leo]

You know what I think what would be cool? Have a PC/104 (http://www.kontron-emea.com/index.php?id=226&cat=54&productid=45) mainboard, this chip (http://www.tri-m.com/products/msystems/doc2000.html) as HDD, have some BSD flavour on it (with Skype!), in a box like this (http://www.tri-m.com/products/engineering/ct104.html), but with a nummeric keypad on the closing-plate. and old fashioned telephone-receiver + hook. Then you would'nt need a noisy computer (or laptop) to be online 24/h a day.
All very possible... but of course Skype wont let you play with their GUI.
But using SIP you can make that thing work... but then you rather buy that Cisco VoIP phone, with WiFi Handheld (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/phones/ps379/products_data_sheet09186a00801739bb.html) and have some SIP provider.

Anyway, I like using Skype. I start to use it more and more like a regular phone (in and out). And the quality of most phone-calls are good. Computer to computer over many hops is not always perfect... but hey, those call are entirely for free.

[GILD]

i can't get it to work thru the firewall thingy here at work
it's a major irritation

[ThisGuyIKnow]

ok I already ahd it downloadd from awhile back but never really used it, convicne me it's worth using, my unsername is jeff.sargeant

[carsonpalooza]

mine is cisforcrunk

[leo]

cool hack (http://www.freewebs.com/mad__matt/wirelessspeakers.htm), making a wireless Skype headset.

(or when the free-hosting account reaches it's limit, then check here (http://www.freewebs.com.nyud.net:8090/mad__matt/wirelessspeakers.htm))

[GILD]

Originally posted by leo
(or when the free-hosting account reaches it's limit, then check here (http://www.freewebs.com.nyud.net:8090/mad__matt/wirelessspeakers.htm)) that link is 'frozen'?

[leo]

Originally posted by GILD
that link is 'frozen'? That's not cool. And the cache did cache the 'frozen' place-holder.

[leo]

via Adam Curry Vodafone blocks Skype (http://www.voipweekly.com/news_detail.php?news_id=162)

[leo]

I just took the new Skype client.
As I have Skype-In and Skype-Out... I now can have call-forwarding to up to 3 numbers!
Cool.

[UNIquelyCanadian]

We use Skype, with bought minutes, as our main house phone, and a cell phone to receive regular calls.

~Cameron

[leo]

...and 911 calls.
Though that "problem" is getting improved.

And during the storm in New Orleans, there were multiple people who's internet-connection stayed alive somehow, and had 8 simultanious Skype connections... which connected better than all the dead phones in the entire area. And according the article I did read (at some militairy website) it saved a couple of lives.

[burjzyntski]

I, too, used skype when it was in it's beta stages. My skype name was burjzyntski, same as this one. Maybe I should install it again...

And it's called VoIP (Voice over IP [Internet Protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip), for you nubs]). It sends packets of information (your sentence/question) to someone else, who replies in the same manner.

[chosen]

is skype similar to ventrilo or teamspeak. thats what my klan uses on halo.

[frogger]

I have skype. do you?

[frogger]

so dos arcane :D

[redhead]

bumpbumpbump

[redhead]

i am redheadunicycler

[James_Potter]

HEY I just got skype, so all y'all should add me, I'm m.e.atkinson

[dudewithasock]

Uh, I use TeamSpeak.

[swarbrim]

swarbrim is my name (i think) i wanna speak to james

Mike

[ntappin]

It sounds like its basically the same thing as gtalk only you cant text message with it. Am I wrong?

[James_Potter]

its pretty much the same, yeah, but theres more people using Skype than there are using Gtalk.
as far as I know, anyway....

[MERCYME]

I hate having windows 98 SE. Cuz nothing good works with it.
Firefox does, but it sucks right now.

[unicycleboy]

Well ive eventually got round to installing it, mine is unicycleboy

[leo]

Recently I bougth such a T-mobile MDA, with 'unlimted' internet (over GPRS over GSM),
and as it runs Windows PocketPC, it can run that Skype release as well.
On GSM my connection sucks. On another ph. on UMTS I have 300kbps down.
So I'm able to IM in Skype, but speech screws up soon.
If I connect this phone to the net over BlueTooth AND WiFi, I can use Skype for speech. Can even use the headset.
So now I run (almost all) my European and American phone-numbers on one single gadget.

[frogger]

I have skype.

[fexnix]

I got skype

[paco]

They call me

unipaco

I can't guarantee that I'll ever be online, but I've got it now, mainly so I can talk to my relatives in Alaska.

[habbywall]

i guess ill get it, then when i do ill come on here and tell you all my name
yes, in time to edit!
my name on skype is habbywall, im not sure when i will be online though, probably never, you'd be better off calling my cell

[carsonpalooza]

skype now has free calls to landlines and mobiles within the US and Canada!

[habbywall]

maybe ill use it now

[leo]

skype now has free calls to landlines and mobiles within the US and Canada!
Since when? Any pointers?

[carsonpalooza]

Since when? Any pointers?
It started recently, what do you mean by pointers?

[leo]

It started recently, what do you mean by pointers?
A link, like this one: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200605.shtml#2006-05-15130444

New from the chairman of Skype you don't expect on eBay.com
But on Skype I saw nothing.
But it explains why the counter of my SkypeOut goes so slow.

[carsonpalooza]

I saw it on the make blog and then downloaded it again and tried it out.
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/05/free_phone_calls_with_skype.html#comments

[leo]

Since recent I have the only USB condenser microphone (http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1810) out there.
As USB is 12V, it does not need other power.
It's my 1st condenser mic (http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-2509.html) that I use myself, and it's a big difference!
I use it on Skype to.

Since recent Radio 1 (http://www.radio1.nl) ("the propaganda channel", financed by the government) is using Skype as well.

So, today I was on national radio on "line-quality".
Mixed just like a satelite or ISDN connection (1st production crew, then live, and including all monitoring).
So I talk in my mic at home, and it's broadcasted live on a FM frequency nationwide.
They (and me as well) are very enthousiast about using it this way, as it's much better than a PSTN (AKA POTS) or regular ISDN (voice)phone-line.

[ice_cold_uni6]

Since recent I have the only USB condenser microphone (http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1810) out there.
As USB is 12V, it does not need other power.
It's my 1st condenser mic (http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-2509.html) that I use myself, and it's a big difference!
I use it on Skype to.

Since recent Radio 1 (http://www.radio1.nl) ("the propaganda channel", financed by the government) is using Skype as well.

So, today I was on national radio on "line-quality".
Mixed just like a satelite or ISDN connection (1st production crew, then live, and including all monitoring).
So I talk in my mic at home, and it's broadcasted live on a FM frequency nationwide.
They (and me as well) are very enthousiast about using it this way, as it's much better than a PSTN (AKA POTS) or regular ISDN (voice)phone-line.

right! makes perfect sense.
*scratches head*

[MERCYME]

I got skype
add me
MrMercy3

[habbywall]

I may actually start to use this now, since it has the landline phone thing.
HMMM

[JJtheunicycle]

mines, justinlikesuni

[Spencer Hochberg]

Hey, I just downloaded this...

my name is Spencer.H

[Spencer Hochberg]

Ok, question time...

It says until the end of 06 I can call phones for free so I tried to dial my cell phone just to test it and it said "failed: unsufficient credit" what do I need to do?

[habbywall]

You can only dial landline phones till the end of the year.

[ivan]

I'm e.o.t.wing if anyone wants it.

[carsonpalooza]

Ok, question time...

It says until the end of 06 I can call phones for free so I tried to dial my cell phone just to test it and it said "failed: unsufficient credit" what do I need to do?
you can call cell phones, I do it all the time. When you open skype click the dial tab at the top. At the bottom type in the number with +1 at the front, so if you wanted to call 123-456-789 you would type in +1123456789

[Spencer Hochberg]

you can call cell phones, I do it all the time. When you open skype click the dial tab at the top. At the bottom type in the number with +1 at the front, so if you wanted to call 123-456-789 you would type in +1123456789
Yeah, thanks. I figured it out yesterday, I forgot the 1 infront of the area code.

[abbabibble]

i just downloaded it.
name's the same:

abbabibble

ring me up sometime!

[amanda.gallacher]

i just downloaded it. my name is
amanda.gallacher
original eh

[JJtheunicycle]

mines, justinlikesuni
juskaun is my new one. I only have 1 contact :(

[saskatchewanian]

I downloaded skype a few weeks ago and used it to call home after my cellphone ran out of minutes. It worked but the sound quality was quite poor. I used it once going skype to skype and the sound quality was equally poor.

If both people have Macs iChat is far superior but the cheep rate to landlines makes it well worth it.

[leo]

juskaun is my new one. I only have 1 contact :(
You can now update your profile (here at unicyclist.com), and add your Skype name.

cellphone... ...sound quality was quite poor.
Ih both people have Macs...
If both those macs were using a GSM connection the sound quality was horrible.
In other words you are comparing apples to pears; the bottleneck is not in the program Skype but in the limited bandwith your phone offers.
Besides that not the entire world is on mac, as the mac simply is not that far superior.

[saskatchewanian]

If both those macs were using a GSM connection the sound quality was horrible.
In other words you are comparing apples to pears; the bottleneck is not in the program Skype but in the limited bandwith your phone offers.
Besides that not the entire world is on mac, as the mac simply is not that far superior.

Im not sure what you are saying here. as far as i can see my comarison has merrit. When I used skype to skype it was to a friend who has a mac. I talked to the same friend on the same computer with the same setup but using iChat. the iChat conversation was much clearer. One HUGE downside to iChat is both people need to be using mac and this is a windows dominated world.

Where i may have been comparing apples to pears is when i called a landline using skype instead of my cellphone but this is why i got skype in the first place (it costs less than 3 cents a minute instead of over 60, and i don't have a landline)

[leo]

Im not sure what you are saying here.
That your mac's iChat doesn't connect over the internet trough a cellphone connection.

[saskatchewanian]

That your mac's iChat doesn't connect over the internet trough a cellphone connection.
Neither does skype. it is all over a sasktel plus high-speed (DSL) connection

I am not on a phone at all when using skype, exactly like iChat...

P.S. if i am not making sense i am on some pretty heavy painkillers right now but i think i am making sense.

[leo]

Neither does skype.
Oups, sorry, I made a too fast conclusion (and I'm not on any drugs).

Still I wonder why your sound is poor. What CPU do you have?

Bytheway, you can make test calls to user "echo123".

[sutton629]

my skype name is sutton629 go figure...

[mornish]

nobody is on :(

[UniTyler]

I'm using Ekiga Softphone, now. It's more universally compatible and recognized (uses SIP addresses) than Skype, plus it's native to Linux. Yippee.

[leo]

I'm using Ekiga Softphone, now. It's more universally compatible and recognized (uses SIP addresses) than Skype, plus it's native to Linux. Yippee.
+1
Finaly I understand the people preaching me SIP;
SIP is much cooler as it is an open protocol.
At this moment you can reach me at 536@pbx.unicycle.mobi

[leo]

Todays news: AT&T will quit payphone business by 2008 due to competition from cell phones. According to the Federal Communications Commission, the number of pay phones nationally has dwindled to 1 million as of 2006 from 2.08 million in 1997.

And earlier KPN anounced to shut down the PSTN in The Netherlands in 2010.

As a phreaker I say: Damn Skype! Damn iPhones!

[leo]

Skype foiling German police (http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/skype/skype-foiling-german-police.html)

Old story after I heared that year old anekdote of a CIA employee who suddenly got a special force in the office... finding out what Skype is. The encrypted traffic made security officers think information was flowing away.

[dudewithasock]

I downloaded it just to give it a try, username is 'matt.shubert'.

[Rezinha]

rezzy.rez :cool:

[JJtheunicycle]

New one: justinsawn

[MrBoogiejuice]

Mine be kitonone.