Showing posts with label Skype. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skype. Show all posts

Thursday, December 23, 2010

What happened to Skype? Cannot log in

If you try to login to Skype today you might have experience some problems login in. It is due to problem with Skype server. It happened because of crashing of servers linked by peer-to-peer technology. Millions of VOIP users were affected in worst outage since 2007.

No one could make calls via Skype as a network connection failure error showed up. Skype's official blogger, Peter Parkes, apologized on behalf of the company on the Skype blog.

According to the Skype blog ....

"Skype isn’t a network like a conventional phone or IM network – instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between computers and phones to keep things up and running. Some of these computers are what we call ‘supernodes’ – they act a bit like phone directories for Skype. If you want to talk to someone, and your Skype app can’t find them immediately (for example, because they’re connecting from a different location or from a different device) your computer or phone will first try to find a supernode to figure out how to reach them."

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Record and Edit Skype Video Calls for Free

I am not a big Skype user but I had to go through some installation process. We assembled some wired machines and person who was thousands miles away gave the instruction through Skype. I am sure will come cross many situations like that. How cool it is. Now you do not really have to go to the place to fix something. Give instructions and watch how they do it.

I knew that I am not going to remember all these things so I want to record the Skype conversations for later reference. I would say I was lucky to find out VodBurner, which provided all the functionalities I required. I am happy that it did not ask me to buy the product to watch the video I recorded. 

When I start Skype conversation, it automatically runs from the background and request to send a message to the other person. You have option to send it or not. Then Vodburner will start recording the conversation as you go and once you end the conversation you will have the option to edit the video. I used same feature to convert the video in to make it playable in media player. 


VodBurner is quite nice tool to record Skype video conversations. Even though it is not completely free software it does not have crazy limitation that will disappoint at the end of the process. Only limitation I have come cross is that it will add its watermark for the edited video.
Download and try VodBurner and record all you important conversations.
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