Following my posts about scripting Skype (which also appeared on Skype Journal), I wrote a little article for the Skype Developer program newsletter of January, which I also post here.

In the “Skype 3.X discussion” public chat, there was a discussion about having a plugin that could extract all your information (profile, buddy list, history list, […]

2.5 years ago, I was the first engineer of the embedded team at Skype. Since then, we built a team and did great things: Released many devices, worked with many partners, fixed lots of bugs, ported Skype to many platforms… But as with any job, there comes a time where you know it well enough […]

Recent version of Skype for Windows allow to edit already sent chat messages. Unfortunately, Skype for Linux 1.4 won’t show the edited version unless you reload the chat history.
I have added to my Skype command-line tools a little script, which will warn you when someone edited a message by showing a message window. Then you […]

Nokia has released a firmware update for the N800 (which I reviewed before) with a great new application, Skype. We have been working with Nokia on this client and I must say the result is very nice, this is a great looking, fast, well done interface. Besides voice calls, it supports chats and multi-chats, one […]

JAJAH is running a campaign targeted at Skype’s users, campaign which focuses on how you don’t need a headset with JAJAH. Of course these days a headset is not at all required anymore for making Skype calls. Jim Courtney lists some of the options for using Skype without headset, the first one being simply to […]

Skype for Linux 1.4 doesn’t support sending SMS in the User Interface yet, but the functionality is supported in the core library used in this release, thus it is possible to send SMS using the Public API.
I have added to my Skype command-line tools a little application for sending SMS. Usage is simple, call it […]

Skype for Linux 1.4, like other desktop clients, supports the Skype Public API, which allows other applications to make use of Skype features.
I started a set of command-line tools for Skype Linux to do various things that cannot be done with the user interface. The first of these tools allows to find and open old […]

That’s the number of chat messages I have received and sent in almost two years at Skype. Around 150 per day, 20 per working hour.
Chat (1-to-1 and multi-chats) are the most important communication tool at Skype. Together with the wiki, they form great pair, so simple (I like simple) yet working so well. The company […]

For Christmas we got ourselves one of the RTX Skype cordless phones. Skype runs directly on the device, without the need for a PC.
The question came which Skype user name to use on the device. Using my main Skype name was not really an option. First I would not be the only user of the […]

A few weeks ago the Danish company RTX launched the DUALphone 3088, the first model of a new category of Skype devices, which we call cordless phones. Since then Linksys has also announced the CIT300, another cordless phone. Like the Wifi phones and the Sony Mylo released earlier, they are standalone devices that allow to […]