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Many web services allow their users to log in to their accounts by using their Facebook credentials, making it easy to log in to multiple services with a single login.
I don’t really recommend taking advantage of that capability, for several reasons, but lots of folks do it nonetheless.
The popular Skype Internet communications service has allowed users to log in via Facebook for several years, but come January 2018 that’ll no longer be the case. [Read more…]
Microsoft has announced that they’ll be shutting down the Microsoft Messenger service on October 31 of this year.
That means if you use MS Messenger to chat with your friends, you’ll need to migrate to a different messaging service before that date.
Current MS Messenger users will automatically be transitioned to Skype, the popular audio/video calling and messaging service that Microsoft recently purchased. But if you’d prefer not to use Skype, there are plenty of options available to you, including these heavily used services: [Read more…]
Every now and then we find ourselves needing to record a phone call either for archiving purposes, legal reasons or for any number of other reasons.
Back in the day when landlines ruled, recording a call was easy. You simply plugged a cassette tape recorder into the phone jack via a special adapter and pressed the Record button.
But times have changed. Most calls these days are made either via cell phone or with a computer using an extremely popular service called Skype, neither of which work all that great hooked up to a cassette recorder.
There are several apps available for recording cell phone conversations, but only a handful for recording a conversation over Skype. The purpose of this tip is to clue you in about a couple of my favorites. The one you use will depend on whether you’re running Skype on a Windows PC or a Mac. [Read more…]