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    Skype for Mac 2.6.0.72 beta

    Posted on Thursday, April 12 2007 @ 10:17:03 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

    New features:
    • Chat typing indicator
    • Chat alert highlighting
    • Call transfer
    • Automatic Updates
    • DTMF tones in Skype-to-Skype calls
    • Public chat support (Join)
    • Payments for Skype Prime premium services
    Improvement:
    • "Set my status to Away after XX minutes" can be disabled in the preferences altogether by setting the value to 0
    • new chat commands, see /help
    • added "Toggle Dialpad" menu item to call window
    • added alert icon into Services panel
    • added error message for SMS prefs number verification if country does not support setting sender number
    • added Growl notification for remote contact typing
    • added Montenegro flag
    • added Serbia flag
    • added support for mood message (%mood% tag) into chat styles
    • alert icon in the header of My Skype area when one of the services is about to expire
    • better handling of going online when awaking from sleep/gaining network connection
    • birthday reminder is marked as seen after a call or a chat is initiated from it or after it has been double-clicked
    • dock icon jumps when waiting for license agreement
    • experimental Copy Message, Quote Message commands in chat context menu (require SKChatQuotations prefs key)
    • if only one contact is filtered out in the contact list, then toolbar commands work on this contact
    • implemented chat "Copy Chat Link" context menu command
    • improved QuickAnswer panel
    • pressing "arrow down" key in the address bar will select the first item in the history list if it is visible
    • pressing "arrow down" key in the search field of history window will select the first item in the history list
    • Skype became quite slow when the number of unread chat messages was high
    • SMS prefs sender id verification code is now transformed to uppercase immediately
    Changed:
    • "The whole world can talk for free" tagline replaced with "Take a deep breath"
    • added an easy to see "Purchase Skype Credit" button to call window when user is out of credit
    • birthday notifications are marked read when they have been selected for 3 seconds
    • changed button labels in contact removal confirmation dialog
    • changed found contact list in search for contacts dialog - added profile button, removed language
    • changed internals to better support windows switchers
    • possible to remove multiple contacts in one go
    • removed time from birthday notifications
    • updated EULA and copyright text
    • year in birthday notifications is the year of birth now
    Bugs fixed:
    • SkypeIn number was not selectable
    • SkypeOut dialler window didn't fade out in certain cases
    • "Number doesn't exist" error was not handled as expected
    • "Request Authorization" menuitem was enabled in the history window even when the selected contact had already authorized you
    • Callto xxx did nothing for already added user.
    • chat add users panel became very slow after a couple of uses
    • chat window online status indicator did not sync with main window when connection dropped
    • clicking 'Add to Conference' while in a 1:1 call changed the call window to a conference, but didn't add the participant
    • contact list was not brought into focus on right-click under certain trackpad settings
    • contacts from mobile devices had offline status icon in the contact list
    • could not change topic by double-clicking
    • crash on profile log out when searc/add window open
    • rare crash when adding contacts
    • deleting some items from history caused the number of missed events to be wrong
    • duplicate appearance of "Messages in this chat are older than..."
    • fixed opening of external chat style (opening copies it to app support)
    • "hanged up" -> "hung up" in notifications prefs
    • if a phone number with proper country code was entered into the SkypeOut dialler then the popup button was not visible next time the SkypeOut dialler was opened
    • If clicked on "1 day" link to get history of a chat for 1 day, then "445 months" message appeared
    • main window had toolbar when user was signed ou
    • main window jumped into old saved position after sign-in if the position was changed before sign-in
    • main window was moved to main screen at startup
    • Not animated SMS emoticon set actually animated in SMS window
    • only online contacts and SkypeOut contacts were in the Call submenu of the Skype menu in the system status bar
    • Opening a chat in separate window from chat drawer showed SMS chat.
    • previously used Skype names were sometimes not shown in the combo box in the main login window
    • Skype didn't recognize phone numbers without international prefix
    • SkypeOut dialler window didn't fade out in certain cases
    • splash screen image was a bit distorted
    • the duration 00:00:00 not shown for missed calls in the history list anymore
    • the chat button in the QuickAnswer panel didn't send SMS in case of an SkypeIn call
    • the country prefix in the popup button of the SkypeOut dialler disappeared for a moment when call button was pressed
    • the number of missed events was wrong under certain circumstances
    • tooltips in contact list didn't work if the missed events panel was open
    • transition from a 1-on-1 video call to a conference call messes up the call window of the receiver
    • Unable to send files to those with (?) status
    • under certain conditions "Mark All Viewed" button was incorrectly disabled after sign-in
    • URI: skype:?eula did not work
    • username was used instead of display name in the message "xxx would like to share video with you"
    Skype API:
    • "set call xxx join_conference yyy" command didn't work as expected and caused subsequent calls to fail
    • contact list didn't regain focus after BTN_RELEASED DOWN commands
    • fixed "NSObjectInaccessibleException - NSDistantObject access attempted from another thread" problem
    • it was not possible to call any target with name containing ","
    Skype framework:
    • fixed "NSObjectInaccessibleException - NSDistantObject access attempted from another thread" problem
    Language files updated:
    • French - Jean-Pierre Kuypers
    • German - Claudius Henrichs
    • Traditional Chinese - Carlos Lee
    • Italian - Alessandro Venturi
    • Dutch - Alexander Henket
    • Spanish - Carola Clavo
    • Portuguese - Francisco Miguel Ferreira
    • Japanese - Takenori Kursawana.

    Program Information

    Category:
    Internet and communication
    Type:
    Free


    Version:
    2.6.0.72 beta
    Size:
    29.6MB
    Works on:
    Windows


    Product page: here

    Download: Skype for Mac 2.6.0.72 beta

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