Skype 2.8 Gold for Mac has Screen Sharing, Skype Access, and a Twitter-Like Feature

Who doesn’t love the convenience and affordability offered by Skype? It’s been a while since Skype added new features to Skype for Mac but they finally did with the release of Skype 2.8 Gold. Here’s what you can expect when you download Skype 2.8 for Mac.

Screen Sharing – The Skype 4.1 version for Windows got Screen sharing several weeks ago to make it easier to show presentations or other activity on your desktop. Anyone with a video-compatible version of Skype can enjoy screen sharing, and you can even do cross-platform collaborations with it.

Skype Access – Finding WiFi hotspots during your travels and fumbling with credit cards and punching in numbers can be quite a pain to do, particularly when you’re on the road. But with Skype Access, you can easily connect to over 100,000 WiFi hotspots worldwide using your Skype Credit to pay for the Internet use by the minute. At the moment, Skype Access in Skype 2.8 Gold is still in its beta version

Improved chat management – If you have simultaneous text conversations going on, improved chat management makes it easier to read the most important messages first and sort out your conversations.

Quick add – Adding people to chats is now much easier with the Quick Add window. All you have to do is click Add in a chat window toolbar then type in a contact’s name. Simply click on your contact’s username to add him or her to the chat.

Mood message chat – A Twitter-like feature that lets you post a short mood message and keep up with your friends’ status updates.

Hidden avatars in incoming contact requests – To avoid the small minority of users that don’t have the most palatable avatars, all avatars are now hidden by default when contact requests are made.

Add notes to contacts – Keeping track of who’s who is now a lot easier by adding notes to a contact in their profile window.

Download Skype 2.8 Gold for Mac here.

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