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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

A sea of Skype™ Extras

Skype™ Extras are plug-ins or add-ons that you can use for fun or better to increase Skype™ functionality also in job sphere.
Maybe the most famous and in vogue in the Skype™ community is CrazyTalk, by Reallusion software house, this add-on allow to Skype™ users to show themselves how they own a WebCam installed on the computer, but instead of showing our face in live breadcast, it will be show an animated avatar chosen from the standard ones, or, if you have some time, wish and patience, it is possible to insert, by following instructions, our face or someone other's face; the curious and impact thing for the user that is communicating with us will be the view of the interlocutor showing a robotic pose that will speak moving his/her lips, in fact CrazyTalk will automatically synch our lips by the words we speak in the microphone.
CrazyTalk is freeware for Skype™ and it can be downloaded to this link, where you can find also instructions for a right installation, program screenshots, additional features.
WhiteBoardMeeting is a sort of shared blackboard between more users where you can draw, write, type, like you are in front of a old style blackboard.
CallButler offers a sort of Skype's telephone system dedicated to small business offices, it integrate an answering machine, call transfer, call on hold and many more.
Last.fm Radio offer us the possibility to hear in streaming mode a normal radio, based on our favourite kind of music.
TalkAndWrite is very interesting because it allow Skype™ users to share documents and work on them, print, save, everything is synchronized, for example it's possible to work on a Excel sheet (XLS) or a Word document (DOC), Rich Text Format documents (RTF), PowerPoint presentations, etc...
If instead you want to play back an executed phone call or a vocal conversation, you cannot miss Pamela MP3 Call Recorder, an easy but useful recorder in MP3 format of Skype™ vocal conversations.
For those that have troubles with foreign languages, you can try Universal Chat Translator, an instant translator that use also Text-To-Speech technology, we type, it translate, others type, and it translate!, we will not get perfect translations but at least we will be able to understand and to make us understand; among supported translated languages we can find: english, dutch, japanese, russian, french, portuguese.
There are millions of Skype™ Extras, all availables, downloadable to this link: https://extras.skype.com. Some of them are freeware, some under payment in trial version, the "Skype Certified" icon means the right working with the last version of Skype™

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