{"id":67,"date":"2007-09-14T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=125"},"modified":"2007-09-14T11:36:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T17:36:55","slug":"you-don%e2%80%99t-have-skype-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have Skype yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had an epiphany; not everyone on the internet uses Skype yet, and some of these people are even in my family! <span> <\/span>If you are now shaking your head in disgust; you feel me, there is no need for you to keep reading. If on the other hand you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know of this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/skype.com\" target=\"_blank\">Skype<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I speak of?<span>  <\/span>Read on \u00e2\u20ac\u201c your diligence will be rewarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Every now and then a program comes along the so redefines or expands how we use computers that it is termed a Killer App. WordStar and VisiCalc where some of the first such, defining and practically inventing the word processing and spreadsheet markets. In the 80s\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 PageMaker, Photoshop and Illustrator did it for desktop publishing. More recently, Mosaic (and its predecessors Netscape, Internet Explorer and Firefox) redefined the way we think of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Simply put, Skype is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Killer App\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s internet. For its millions of current users, Skype is an indispensable part of daily life. What does it do? In addition to being a really good text IM client, Skype delivers excellent quality voice\/video chat, and it does it for free. Computer to computer calls feature gorgeous clarity with support for up to 10 callers. Solid multi platform support, in addition to the Windows version, the Mac and Linux versions interoperate seamlessly \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so no one is left out based on their OS. And for mere pennies a minute you can dial out from your computer to international phones. In fact you can buy a year of unlimited computer to domestic telephone service for a flat $30 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c And you thought services like Vonage were a deal!  <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In addition to superb call quality and free or very discounted phone service, its one of the best VoIP (Voice over IP \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or the whole idea of talking over the internet) clients I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever used, due to tight integration with Programs like Outlook, IE and Firefox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So what are you waiting for, go download it free now \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m waiting to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had an epiphany; not everyone on the internet uses Skype yet, and some of these people are even in my family! If you are now shaking your head in disgust; you feel me, there is no need for you to keep reading. If on the other hand you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know of this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Skype\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-internet-networking","category-linuxunix","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}