Thanks Justin and Focus,
The Start Skype upon system start box is checked by default. I don't use Skype
much so I unselected it. Subsequent to posting I discovered that I can launch
Skype from my recently used submenue under the Apple menu, but I still don't
see it in either the SpotLight or applications.
I gather from Justin's post that sorting is the only way to determine a
contact's status. This would probably work, but one wouldn't know if a
particular contact has not yet shared details.
Thanks again and I'll keep playing.
Geoff
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From: focus
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Cc: focus
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: Geoff Waaler Skype.
Hi Geoff!
When you get your Skype running, you can go to Skype preferences' in the menu!
You can choose to have Skype launch automatically when you start your mac up!
That's under general, Next to general heading is the tool bar interact with
this and you get other settings you can change!
Like under the heading notifications you can choose to have vo announce when
one of your contacts comes online by name, or when they are calling you also by
name!
Others... new contact request,sms voice mail Etc.
you can also choose to use sounds or tones that you might have!
Theres quite a lot you can personalise.
:-]
Focus
Skype focus_66
On 12 Aug 2010, at 06:49, Justin Kauflin wrote:
Hi, I'll try to help.
1. When I want to know when someone is online, I noticed that if they are
online, their name is above the Skype Test Call. That seems to be pretty
consistent. If your not sure where the test call is, its in a table that
lists all of your contacts in the main window.
2. When you download an application, your downloading the disc image.
With most of these, you are able to run the program from the disc image, but if
you want to put it in applications, you have to locate the Application file in
the downloads folder and copy it to your applications folder. I feel like the
way the Mac treats applications is much different than the way Windows treats
them. Once I got used to how it works, I like the way Mac does it. Feels much
cleaner.
Hope this helps some
Justin
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:23 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
Okay so I've spent a few hours getting acquainted with my MBP. I
registered, installed the latest updates and went through the VO tutorial.
I downloaded and installed Skype. Not quite sure how I pulled it off
since I couldn't seem to run it from my downloads folder, but I did get the
license agreement and filled in my userid. More over, when I checked for
updates under the Skype menu it indicated that I had the current version, so
it must have downloaded and installed?
This was the first app I attempted to use, so my questions are probably
pretty basic, but here goes:
1. How can I ascertain the status of contacts? I went into verbosity
settings (VO+V) but couldn't find any applicable options. I believe I recall
Mac users knowing which contacts were on as is possible with JFW, so I'm
probably missing something.
2. When I restarted, I can no longer locate Skype. I tried
"applications" (command+shift+a), the finder and the spotlight. Only the
spotlight showed me Skype but it appeared to only consist of the file I
downloaded as well as recently visited Skype pages from Safari history.
3. Back when I was able to run Skype I went through the options but could
not locate a way to place a test call. Perhaps the Mac has features rendering
this inapplicable, but I was curious whether this feature is not in the Mac
version, or perhaps I didn't look in the right place?
Thanks in advance for any/all suggestions, and best regards.
Geoff
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