Skype question

[Chakolate]

A friend who lives in Greece and co-authors papers with another friend
who lives here in Chicago wants to use Skype for conferences, but she has
a Mac and hasn't upgraded to X yet. Is there a Skype version for older
OSs and do you know where I can find it?

oldversion.com has several previous versions but I don't know which one
to advise her to try. Please note that I've next-to-no knowledge of
Macs, having used only Windoze and Unix, so if there's technical stuff,
please be precise.

Thanks!

Chak

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[jmatt]

These may be a ways around it.

NetMeeting on XP
http://www.meetingbywire.com/XPNetMeeting.htm

Wavigo
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Chat/Instant-Messaging/Wavigo.shtml
http://www.wavigo.com

ChatConference
http://www.tucows.com/preview/248967

Not Only Two!
http://www.turboirc.com/not/

 

[FTR]

These may be a ways around it.

NetMeeting on XP
http://www.meetingbywire.com/XPNetMeeting.htm

Lousy. A technology professor tried to set it up with me last year, we
used 2 hrs on the phone to make NetMeting run on our Win XP machines. We
were happy to use Skype now.
Does it work with MacOS ?

Wavigo
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Chat/Instant-Messaging/Wavigo.shtml
http://www.wavigo.com

Now, Wavigo is windows only but they say that with their new 1.0 version
you can interconnect with MacOS, too.

ChatConference
http://www.tucows.com/preview/248967

Did you find any info on the operating systems? This app dates form 2002
and is still in its version 1.0.

Not Only Two!
http://www.turboirc.com/not/

Thanks for the listing!

- Frank

 

[bethmagic2003]

Lousy. A technology professor tried to set it up with me last year, we

used 2 hrs on the phone to make NetMeting run on our Win XP machines. We
were happy to use Skype now.
Does it work with MacOS ?

Lousy? That only means thet **you** are lousy. Net meeting works very
well out of the box in my experience.

 

[FTR]

Lousy? That only means thet **you** are lousy. Net meeting works very
well out of the box in my experience.

I'll forward the complements. I think the large majority of people don't
need a whiteboard. So, Skype which has no difficulty with blocked ports
due to firewalls and which runs on Win and MacOS is, as far as I see,
today the best solution. But this can of course change.

- Frank