My son uses an applcation called Facetime. Much improved over Skype IMO.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]>
Subject: I hate automatic "upgrades".
I have, probably only one person I talk to or chat with on Skype, but it's
installed on my Laptop and Desktop, and used to be automatically started
when I started both machines. Not anymore. The last Skype "improvement" of
my experience, now causes any graphics oriented software to almost choke
while Skype is running. Geeze, first it required me to upgrade to a later
version of Internet Explorer, (a program I never use on my desktop), then,
next time I opened DXO Optics Pro the response of any control was so laggy
I at first thought that the program had frozen. Photoshop was noticeably
slower too, even a lightweight program like Irfanview was effected. Tried
to open the Task manager* and the tasks and programs didn't have enough
video memory to populate the lists when it finally appeared, some controls
didn't initialize.
I know I don't have the most advanced video card, or the most video
memory, but sheesh, the graphical interface on Skype is pretty
underwhelming, what the fuck, (excuse my language, but I'm a bit
frustrated here), is Skype doing with all those resources.
*Which really told me nothing, when I finally got it to work since it's
mostly silent on video usage. Had to run a video analyzer.
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