This is pretty interesting. Yahoo has released its LiveText app, an app that streams video without audio and allows you to send text, icons and emoji. The thought behind this is that the expressiveness of the video makes the conversation more authentic and adds to the nuances that may be missing from a standard text-based […]
Tag: chat
A while back, it was reported that Microsoft has been significantly overhauling Skype. As of Friday, the company announced that it is starting to roll Skype out onto the Web. Per 9to5Mac, Skype for Web will allow users to chat, video call, and manage contacts from a web browser without having to download the Skype […]
For some time since Microsoft acquired Skype, the conferencing and messaging software, users have been plagued by messages that won’t sync from one device to another. Additional problems included delayed notifications of new messages or notification of messages that have already been read. Anyone who used iMessages in its early days will recall similar, frustrating issues […]
On Thursday, version 6.8.60.351 of the Skype VoIP application was released. The new version, a 41.8 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Support for 3 additional languages: Swedish, Finnish and European Portuguese. – Toolbar search field improvements, including listing phone numbers for Mac contacts. – Mouse cursor renders as hand over links. […]
Late Tuesday, Apple released Safari 6.0.5, an update to its web browser. The new version, a 342.33 megabyte download (via MacUpdate), includes the following fixes and new features: – Improves stability for some websites with chat features and games. Safari 6.0.5 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.8.3 or later to install and […]