Hi,
I find the regular skype perfectly accessible, and have not found this to be
the killer app many have found. However, for a version 1 product, it's
pretty nice, and will make the skype experience more pleasant for many. I'm
recommending it to a few friends who are, for whatever reason, petrified of
skype 4.x 5.x. It's a sad commentary that GW had to do this, but ah well.
They did, and good on skype for putting this info out.
This is version 1, so my comments here may become invalidated at any point
in time.
Here's my impressions.
posatives
1. Clean interface.
2. works with fb, like I really care.
3. It uses about 10 meg less than skype on my machine. In an audio tweet,
I commended them for using a meg of ram, but that was a rogue process left
over for some reason.
4. It shows my skype out contacts with my regular contacts. This is quite
nice, if I'm just going down my list, looking for someone random to call.
Doesn't normally bother me, since I type in part of the name. a note, you
can't type in part of a name, and land there. You hit w, and you're taken
to the w, if you hit i for wiliam, you're taken back to the is. Some people
like the ability to type in names, other don't. shrug.
5. More short cut keys to access things. Some of them I use, others I
don't, but it is a good thing to have.
6. Voicemails can be told to pop up, and you can play or delete with
different buttons. With skype talking, I've axidently hit the key combo 3
times, and deleted a voicemail .. woopsies.
7. One does not have to tab over to the dialpad button. This should be
noted in the gwmicro manual. Once you've made a skypeout call, the numbers
maically work!
8. Well laid out manual.
things i don't like.
1. Not full access to options yet. This means your audio levels will be
controled by skype. It also means that you can't set things like who can
chat you or call you. As far as I can tell, what you set in regular skype
does not count in this version. I have to do more testing first.
2. It assumes that you want to join someone to a conference. If you're
talking to some friends, and your mom calls, it would be nice to be given a
choice. Put people on hold, talk to mom, return to original call. Since I
use skype in, this is a real problem for me. I hate when programs make
assumptions grrrrrrr.
3. As far as I can tell, the notifications are an all or nothing toggle.
There's no way to detell this interface which notifications are spoken, and
which are kept silent.
4. There's no way, to my knowledge to turn sounds off. Even if
notifications are off, this program keeps bonging away. Easily fixed,
replace the files with silent ones, but why should I have to do this?
Skype reports someone as online or whatever, a program like windows
messenger only bings when someone actually signs in. So, with constant
status changes, it can grow noisy rather quickly.
5. This may not matter to many, but if you're going to use an addon to
record skype calls, you'll still have to keep your regular skype around. No
interface to external programs.
6. I'm such a geek that I used the skype:/skypename to create shortcut
commands to call someone, can't use them. Btw, if skype is unloaded, and
one uses a skype:/skypename command, it will load skype, and call. I have
this setup for a few people, never let it be said that lazyness doens't pay
off. It's such a minor and trivial thing that I only mention it for any one
else who has something like this setup.
bugs I've found.
1. Sometimes, when I alt tab away, the program closes itself.
2. I had to restart NVDA, it switched to sap. I'm not sure if one can
change the SAPI voice or not, didn't see a way to do it, but maybe I missed
it.
I think that, for many people, this will make their skype experience much
more productive and beneficial. I can't say that personally, but I do
eagerily await the future of this program. I think now is the time to give
feedback, and more importantly, tell them how much this program means to
you.
Rickness
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