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Do you travel a lot? Or have family overseas that you’d like to touch base with? Guess what, there's a free way to have both video and audio chats with them over the internet. Best of all, it dosen't matter if you're on a Mac or PC. As long as you and the other person have a relatively fast internet connection, "skyping" is a great and free way to keep in touch. So here's the HyperTip on how to get started.
Skype is a software application that allows people to make phone calls over the Internet. It also has many other features such as video chat, low costs rates to call landlines and cell phones directly from your computer. Skype can also be used on a variety of different devices, including macs, PC’s, cell phones and other mobile devices.
Here are a few of our favorite things about Skype:
1. Skype to Skype video and voice calls are always free anywhere around the world as long as you have Internet access.
2. If you like to make phone calls or send text messages anywhere around the world you can “pay as you go” or subscribe to a monthly fee with no long-term commitment which will include boundless calls to landlines and cell phones.
3. Having your own online number is perfect for those friends and family members who don’t utilize Skype. They can dial your online number and your Skype rings for you to pick it up wherever you are in the world.
4. Screen sharing- With the screen sharing feature you can easily show exactly what you are looking at by simply calling your Skype contact and sharing all or part of your desktop. Perfect for business meetings or just to save the trouble of having to expound on what you are seeing on your screen.
5. Skype to go number- Definitely a five hyper-star feature! Use your mobile phone to make low costs calls. Skype to go number is a number that you save on your mobile phone and you dial it whenever you need to call overseas. Use the voice menu to call a speed-dial number or dial in a number and save.
For more information and to begin skyping... visit www.skype.com!
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