Met Skype, dat beschikbaar is voor Windows, Linux, Mac OS X en de Pocket PC, kunnen gratis gesprekken worden gevoerd met ander Skypegebruikers, of tegen zeer scherpe prijzen kan je bellen naar vaste- en mobielenummers via SkypeOut. De ontwikkelaars hebben een nieuwe bètaversie uitgebracht voor het Mac OS X-platform en deze voorzien van 1.5.0.75 als het versienummer. De lijst met veranderingen sinds de vorige vermelding in de meuktracker ziet er als volgt uit:
Skype for Mac version 1.5.0.75:Skype for Mac version 1.5.0.61 Video Preview:
- improvement: registration process is started right after EULA has been accepted
- bugfix: fixes some case where chat window appears all empty upon opening old chat
- bugfix: 011 was incorrectly considered as international prefix in some cases, making it impossible to dial some local numbers which had area code starting with 011
- bugfix: when contact list was filtered out, but address bar didn't have focus, the "Call This Number" button was not working
- bugfix: buttons in the confirmation dialog to clear history were not translatable
- bugfix: size and position of call window was not saved as expected when dialpad was open during a SkypeOut call
- bugfix: Crash: Searching for contacts
- bugfix: On Panther Menu bar doesn't work at all.
- bugfix: no call out ringing
- bugfix: Wrong part of chat comes up
- bugfix: import contacts showed too little email addresses to be searched
- improvement: you can set SKChatHistoryApplication to specify app to open chat history
- bugfix: Connection port is not random, it was always 54045
- bugfix: fix a bug of displaying (null) and no counry name in html titles of chat flag images
- bugfix: fix crash on receiving (flag:xx) in chat with illegal country code
- bugfix: SKIconMenuButton is not released on chat close
- bugfix: SkypeChatDisplay along with it's WebView is not deallocated on chat close
- improvement: Mouse over on Emoticons will tell you what they are.
- change: behavior of search window changed
- improvement: show flags in chats, like (flag:xx)
- change: add mood message to echo123
- bugfix: EventSpeech.strings corrupted
- bugfix: EventSpeech.strings duplicate entry
- bugfix: High CPU consumption while ringing
Skype for Mac version 1.5.0.60:
- improvement: CPU Usage in Video calls is reduced.
- improvement: a sound is played when a call is initiated
- bugfix: Canada was not in the list of countries in call preferences and SkypeOut dialler
- bugfix: advanced option "Keep call windows in front" didn't work when "Dock call windows to Skype main window" was enabled
- bugfix: the text in the SkypeOut dialler is now "Type number in (country)", instead of "Type (country) number"
- bugfix: sometimes Skype crashed after adding or removing a contact
- improvement: new notification CallConnecting - plays nice sound when you start calling someone
- improvement: added Show call technical info to advanced prefs and respective floating utility panel
- improvement: minor layout fixes in the history window
- improvement: added "Remove from Contacts" command into the main menu
- improvement: SkypeOut dialler window remembers its size and position
- bugfix: "resume" button was clickable when a video call was held remotely
- bugfix: renamed "send im" to "start chat..." in the context menus of conference call participants
- bugfix: "More" button in call window was in a wrong position in non-video builds
- bugfix: results of contact list filtering were not updated after a new contact was added
- bugfix: Mac: automatic launch setting not honoured
- improvement: pressing "arrow up" key in the contact list while the topmost contact is selected, will bring focus to the address bar
- bugfix: there was some flickering when a call window was created
- bugfix: advanced preferences "Keep call windows in front" and "Dock call windows to Skype main window" were conflicting
- improvement: tab key switches focus between address bar and contact list
- improvement: pressing "arrow down" key in the address bar will select the first contact in the contact list
- improvement: previous text in the address bar will be preselected when focus returns there
- improvement: previous text in the address bar will be preselected when main window regains focus
- improvement: support mp3 sounds in events notification (may not work on 10.3.9)
- improvement: added WebHistory to chat, visited external URL's are now colored red with small check mark
- improvement: pop-up button with country prefixes will be hidden in the SkypeOut caller window if a valid phone number with international code is entered into the phone number field
- improvement: added a button to clear the phone number field in the SkypeOut caller
- improvement: improved handling of some country prefixes starting with +1 (like Virgin Islands)
- bugfix: was unable to import phone numbers from AB and probably also from other sources
- bugfix: 'Call' in chat drawer item context meny localized incorrectly
- bugfix: territories with no prefix defined are not shown in the country selection pop-up menu in call preferences and in the Add Contact window