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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Wonderful Speeches? Really?
Come on, conservatives! It's high time you recognize that it doesn't do a whole helluva lot of good to beat your chests about how you ain't bowing down to the liberal media's propaganda, after having gleefully swallowed their fat little "Obama's a great speaker" worm. That's how it happened. He was declared the best speaker in the universe before he even stepped to Mt. Olympus there in Denver, and you all happily agreed.
Is this your version of liberal anti-terrorism doctrine? The doctrine that says "make sure you have more concessions for your opponent than condemnation?" Is it really that important for you to be able to say "hey, at least I had one nice thing to say about him?" Having nice things to say about the bad guy is getting us kicked around the global power playground like puppies at a Michael Vick party. Hell, having nice things to say about the bad guy got John McCain defeated last year.
Knock it off.
6 comments:
- Gerard said...
Bring. It. On.
- December 30, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Andy said...
Happy Birthday, a few days late.
- December 30, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- Nicole said...
Yeah, he's a great speaker because he says what they want to hear, not because of how he says it. And I'm with you - fed up over the fawning about his supposed prowess.
- December 30, 2009 at 10:10 AM
I never understood it. Nice to know I'm not alone.
- December 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM
- roderick said...
There must be legions of us who did not think Obama was a great speaker, and that was waaaayyy before the election.
Bullwer-Lyttonish mashups (written by juveniles who think squeezing a cardboard Hillary's titty is funny and worth recording)and read off a teleprompter by a guy who dresses well and watches his figure (there, I DID have something nice to say about the kid!) is not Lincolnesque in the least. - December 30, 2009 at 2:09 PM
- Andy said...
roderick - thanks for coming by, and thanks for commenting. I just loves me some new readers.
- December 31, 2009 at 9:10 AM


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They do mean "man," not "humanity"—all four of the show's artists are dudes. In the back gallery, however, there's a pointed counterpoint in the colorful, semi-abstract landscapes of Susanna Bluhm, based on the Song of Songs and dedicated/inspired to/by her wife and son. Bluhm admits it cracks her up that you have to walk by a big image of bull balls in order to get to her three paintings.
And here's Bluhm's painting I slept, but my heart was awake, from a segment of the Song of Songs in which "the narrator has woken up from the nightmare she had where she lost her love. She is back in a beautiful state of life and love, which now includes bits of PTSD leftover from her nightmare. I based these paintings on photos I took in Berlin, which to me is a landscape manifestation of pulsating life coming out of gashes and wounds."
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Fabulous image. I know tigers like water and good zoos/safari parks provide them with a pool - but to have the opportunity for a picture like this is amazing - I just wish I'd been there!!
Posted by karen on July 29,2009 | 02:08 AM
A once in a life time shot. Perfect.
Posted by Mrs. More on July 3,2009 | 11:56 PM
Reminds me of a Dali painting...
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I think this is a masterpiece capture!!! If taken through glass even better!! Congratulations.
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Takes my breath away. What an image.
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Great color and magnificent animal but the circumstances under which he or she is in a pool are disturbing.
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Wow, this is absolutly "magnifique". I went to the Six Flags in Vallejo but my camera is not good enough to take that kind of picture...bravo
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You don't see that everyday!! A+++
Posted by Bill in Hawaii on March 26,2009 | 02:48 AM
How can it be possible to photograph a tiger in this situation?Is it in a zoo? In private swimming pool? or in the wild? Is photographer is alive? I am asking because the mood of the tiger is like a maneater.
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Swim faster!
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simply amazing. Now how can i get this as my wallpaper?
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beautiful.. but what was the tiger doing in Vallejo, CA?? extremely clean water as well...
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Brillinat photograph... How were you able to take this one? Where is this?
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Posted by Elizabeth Currer on March 5,2009 | 06:20 PM
Simply beautiful. You can almost see it lunge at you. Talk about massive strength!
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Welcome to Physical Science 111 — General Course I. Class meets from 8:00 am until 2:00 pm on Saturday in Room 3833. Class begins August 25th. This is a general science course for non-science majors. We spend the first half of the course studying Geology. We then divide the remaining time between the study of Meteorology (weather) and Astronomy.
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PHYSICAL SCIENCE 076 0111 - General Course I - Physical Science
Introduction to the scientific method, astronomy, geology, meteorology. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course.
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This is a very powerful program that "provides satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips." The newest version included Google Sky! This program continues to amaze and delight me. - Geology News
Pulls together geology news from many sources. - The landscape of natural disasters
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- Tell Me Why - Gems, Metals and Minerals (video)
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Earthquakes and Volcanos
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Feb 3 2011
Answering Services Relying on Backup Power More than Ever
Category: News
Posted by: Nick DAlleva
Electric utility workers are busier than ever, and that's because ice storms across the United States have brought down electric lines leaving thousands of businesses and homes without power. Many answering services are experiencing outages within their own offices. Unfortunately, answering services need to stay open and constantly have power. With their power down, answering services must generate their own electricity, allowing them to remain open 24 hours a day.
Battery Backup
For short term power outages, answering services rely on battery backup power. Battery Backup is a battery or a set of batteries working in a Uninterruptable Power System. The UPS system provides an alternative source of power while the main power source is interrupted. This is an ideal situation for an answering service that is experiencing a power outage of less than two hours. Any power outages lasting longer than two hours require a backup generator.
Backup Generator
Generators are a type of Emergency Power System. Other types of EPS's include fuel cells and rechargeable batteries. The generator provides backup power resources in a crisis. It also can provide power when, planned or not, the regular power systems fail. With a generator in place, an answering service can remain fully functional for several hours, days, even weeks. The answering service or call center is an entity that people rely on; especially in an emergency. Having a complete disaster recovery plan in place is essential. And having back up power to handle both potential long and short term outages is especially vital.
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April 13th, 2012 @ 7:58 amEvery office, home or industrial plant should have backup power equipment so that they can smoothly run the necessary machines. A huge UPS or generator is the best equipment to fulfill the power needs during power failure.
April 23rd, 2012 @ 2:56 pmYes. Generators are a large part of any backup power plan. Add battery backups to the generators and you are creating a great comprehensive plan.
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Spouse Grief Counselor Siloam Springs AR
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Licensed in Arkansas
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How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?
By Charmian Christie
Sometimes melodramatic lyrics like, "Can't live, if living is without you," can come true. Researchers in the 1960s coined the phrase "the widower effect" because 17 percent of men die within a year of losing their wives. Now new evidence shows that absence, not just death, also takes a physical toll. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found seniors whose spouses were hospitalized suffered the same risk of death as those whose spouses died. Surprisingly, debilitating disorders like dementia increased the risk of death more than terminal conditions where the spouse was able to live a relatively normal life between treatments. University of Pennsylvania's Paul Allison, PhD, coauthor of the study, speculates that since spouses contribute to our well-being, simply not having them around can harm our health. If this research is right, absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It just might break it.
Social networks play such a critical role in our health that they can actually save lives. Felix Elwert, PhD, a researcher and sociologist from Harvard University, studied the differences in the widower effect between Caucasian and African-American couples aged 65 and older. In same-race marriages, Caucasians had a 15 to 20 percent increased risk of death when their spouses died, but African-American couples had none. "Zero. None," says Elwert. Why the difference? The answer can be found by looking at mixed-race couples. Here the widower effect depends on the wife's race. Husbands of Caucasian wives suffered the widower effect, but husbands of African-American wives didn't. And these two groups have marked differences in extended family support. Only 20 percent of elderly Caucasian couples live with extended family while 40 percent of African-American couples do. "Wives on average are responsible for the kinship network and social life," Elwert says. "Men married to African-American women benefited from her strong community ties."
The weaker sex?
Are men really more fragile than women? Apparently so. Jane Potter, MD, president of the American Geriatrics Society, says, "Women have better survival rates at all ages and for all difficulties." This is partially because senior men are often more dependent on their spouses for day-to-day care.
Men also tend to have fewer social networks than women and fewer close friendships, says Linnda Durré, PhD, a psychotherapist from Orlando, Florida. A man's best friend is often his wife, while women typically have several close friends including their husbands. Durré says many men have also been conditioned not to talk about their feelings and may believe "therapy is for sissies." Women, on the other hand, speak about their feelings. This leaves them more open to counseling and group sessions, where they reap the health benefits these social supports provide.
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Stop the hard sell: How This is Money has exposed bad bank advice and pushy sales tactics in branches across the country
By Lee Boyce
Since last summer, This is Money has opened an ugly can of worms revealing some shocking practices within banks and building societies thanks to the stories of branch advisers themselves.
Recently, the Financial Conduct Authority published a devastating dossier exposing how salesmen at six top banks gave poor and misleading advice that put customers' nest eggs at risk.
The report comes as This is Money continues to expose mis-selling in a variety of branches nationwide.
Hard sell: Banks and building societies have been in the firing line over selling products in branches across the UK
- Britannia sold my elderly mother a complex investment instead of the fixed-rate savings she wanted - now she's been left with ZERO interest (May 2013)
Lee Boyce: Advisers continue to contact me to reveal sales pressure in their branch
In total I have had contact with over 50 advisers across the country telling similar stories of hard-pressure sales tactics – with only three defending their industry and the way they behave in branch.
And I am still receiving e-mails now.
A large number of readers claiming to be branch advisers have also left comments on these stories, most unhappy with the way they have to act at work in order to hit targets and keep their job.
Here's one such comment from Perry, Warrington. He said: 'I think you have done an excellent job of reporting the environment in which staff work in banks and building societies. I hope you continue to do this for the sanity of staff working there and for customers being mis-sold to.
'In my opinion the problem is huge. I worked in four branches and knew staff at about twenty other branches who were constantly under pressure from management to flog house insurance, over 55 life insurance, financial adviser leads and stock market linked bonds.
'If they did not, they were on a performance improvement plan, which was basically a big stick to beat people with until they either mis sold, resigned, were sacked or in a lot of cases signed off with genuine stress. In a lot of cases people were selling just to keep their jobs let alone earn any bonus on top of that. The FSA is also bang on here. It has got to stop.'
We will continue to investigate the stories of branch staff across the country, many of whom feel they are under ridiculous pressure to 'sell' products that may not be the right fit for customers.
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This week, The Five is looking back at some of the most memorable moments in US Olympic history ... beginning Monday with the story of runner Jesse Owens. It was 76 years ago that Owens shattered the world record, becoming the world's fastest man and running his way to gold medals in Nazi Germany.
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Introducing the new Skype for Mac, now available in Beta
It's out of beta – read about the latest version!
It was worth the wait – the new Skype 5.0 is now available for Mac today in beta, introducing a revamped look and feel that simplifies navigation and provides a more Mac-like experience. For example, the Skype app has been brought together in one window for ease-of-use, and the Mac address book has been integrated, making it possible for you to call, IM and SMS your contacts when they are online or offline.
The new Skype for Mac also offers our popular new feature – group video calling – which allows you to make video calls with more than two people at a time as long as all participants are on the new Mac beta or Skype for Windows 5.0. Group video calling brings people together like never before, allowing you to do more things together with your friends, family and colleagues whenever you are apart.
The new Skype for Mac also includes the following new features:
- New call control bar — Hang up, mute and more from a mini Skype toolbar that sits on top of any web pages, documents or photos you've got open
- Search chat content to easily navigate past conversations
- Offline IM so that you can send and receive instant messages even if the recipient is offline
- Personalise contacts via user profiles
- Quickly rejoin calls if your Internet connection fails momentarily
- Floating Contacts Monitor to see your online contacts and contact groups
Try out the new Skype for Mac in beta and tell us what you think using the Skype > Provide Skype Feedback menu item. And stay posted as we roll out the official version soon.
466 thoughts on "Introducing the new Skype for Mac, now available in Beta"
gaurav.g29 said 3 years ago
While the features are good… the new GUI is awesomely BAD… reverting back to 2.8
Skype team I hope this is really a beta… and will be corrected in the final version..
norrisk said 3 years ago
I've tried to like this, but I find it too bulky and I lose functionality when I call folks… the chat turns to the call window and I cannot share text or links with the person I talking to! WTF?????? Going to go back to 2.8 until you fix this lemon…..
jasonmcaron said 3 years ago
"It's so big!!!!" …aaaand that's what she said.
I've always loved Skype, and still do… BUT… this new version, although still a beta, is a HUGE FAIL and BIG MISTAKE. I feel like I'm using a really unstable and very ugly application that is just trying to catch-up to where Apple's "ichat" has already been for years. Mac users like sleek applications, with the ability to change the application size to our own likings. And where is the Facebook Contact integration? And why was the Mac Version so delayed on release date? And what about those who use more than one Operating System and want their experience to feel seamless (or when trying to navigate our parents when explaining how to use it)? And why is it so big? I'm sorry, I'm going back to the old version and deleting this Beta… its too horrible!! Keep at it though, you'll get it. -
gluzdov said 3 years ago
What was the point of this re-design? Video conferencing is obviously very useful. Spell check STILL MISSING – big disappointment. Allow skin customization and revert to "classic", at least for the chat window.
whitneyq said 3 years ago
Add me to the people who HATE this. First, it's a GIANT window. All the things that people say they hate about that holds for me.
But what really has me annoyed is that I was on a video call, sent a chat, and have not managed to find my way back to the video window. Too many secret controls. Honestly: Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + UPArrow is a easy key combination! Not in my book.
Make the easy stuff easy – like it used to be!
billwesterman said 3 years ago
Just wanted to add a "+1″ to the complaints that running Skype causes the new MacBook Pro i7 to kick into Nvidia graphics instead of Intel. Not good when running on battery. Any thoughts about fixing this?
samgoates said 3 years ago
Oh I am SOOOOOOO disappointed too!!!!
I downloaded the new Mac Beta version for the Group Video feature… and was horrified by what appeared on the screen. I am a huge Skype user and generally rave about it to all. I have been reading all the posts here as I was hoping to find the way to shrink the new contact window and find the lovely old compact one I generally keep in a wee corner… and am now feeling quite deflated… it seems from other users that all my concerns are well founded.
You have waaaaay missed the mark and it seems I am not alone in how I use Skype. I like the separate windows for Contacts (small as possible, can see instantly who's on, and can change my status in one weeny wee box in the corner of my screen), for chats (again compact and resizeable and for video (again can adjust size to what else I am doing at the time… totally flexible). Smart and simple.
I am not blind. The scale of the window is stupid, the font size is ridiculous and white space/waste is just crazy.
I am putting 2.8 on again immediately.
Please, please, please… listen to the feedback here and go back to something minimal, flexible and functional.
nildeen said 3 years ago
I wish they would just use the old UI and add the new features (or have a "use old UI" option). I tried the beta for a while (couple weeks) but I could not get used to it. Now back to 2.8…
kennydove said 3 years ago
This is really an awful design. So I have skype in the background. I can't just right-click on the top menu icon and get a list of contacts or pull up the chat window from there. I've given it a try for 3 weeks now, but give up. Didn't you try user testing?
And the single window design? What was wrong with multiple chat windows, or at least having the online contacts monitor showing me a number for the unseen chats, being able to rightclick and open a call or chat with the person there.
Having to click on the dock to bring up the "big window" bites totally. Switching between chats is worse. OK, so make this an option.
I'm not sure why this design is more mac-like…
Back to 2.8 for me, this is awful…
tddragon said 3 years ago
Completely useless UI, huge step back. Will need to install my old 2.8 again.
Aside from the HUGE window being VERY difficult to work with, here is a specific problem that is driving me up the walli
There is no single list of all contacts with easy to see notifications of who is messaging me! – the popup window with online contacts does NOT show who messaged me. So ONLY place I see a notification is onscreen for a second (which do not link to the actual message) and then in the TODAY list (which at that point may have a lot of other people in it so I completely miss received chat messages.) AND i CANNOT delete a single entry from today/yesterday to use it more like a regular chat window where I have multiple tabs for multiple chats – so new messages GET COMPLETELY LOST!
Please guys, is this really the best you can do? Did someone actually really test this UI in real-world environment?
I am VERY disappointed.
Why not allow chat notifications in the pop-out "Online Contacts" window? whats the matter with that?
wizardling said 3 years ago
"a more Mac-like experience"??? Are you SERIOUS? To give just a few examples – the cursor changes into a resize COLUMN cursor when I resize the WINDOW. You use non-standard controls to reveal the chat, etc. Your text input field looked like a solid grey part of the clunky UI – I actually had to ask where it was!
Not only that, the one-window UI is AWFUL. In the same space it shows a FRACTION of the info 2.8 did. WTF is with the GIANT fonts and avatars and whitespace everywhere??????
In short – whoever designed this abomination needs to be fired and blacklisted from the industry. It looks like it was designed by an iPad dev who's never even seen decent iPad apps, who also spends their entire day in Skype. HELLO!!! I'm on a MAC. NOT an iPad. I want to use more than one app at once! Do you KNOW what unobtrusive means? (Not to mention words like intuitive, design, elegance…)
katie-whitcomb said 3 years ago
Here's a little hint for you: If your going to design something for an OS your not using on a daily basis, hire some people who do. This is obviously a Windows "program" masquerading as a Mac OS X "App" and it was ported by Windows lovers looking to play a joke on us. Get some Mac people working on this and keep the Windows people in their own cubicles!
mg.renner57 said 3 years ago
It hardly seems necessary to say again what has so loudly and clearly been said by just about every commenter already, but it's still worth to reinforce the point that the UI is too big, wasting space. This Beta is not intuitive at all and certain important features (like the ability to pre-select contacts for a conference call before starting the call) seem to be missing entirely. I add my voice to those who are asking for a serious rethink on this before the software moves out of Beta territory.
pixelgalactic said 3 years ago
This really is a convoluted clustf*ck. Somehow you took up more real estate and improved nothing. In fact usabilty is much worse than before. How hard would it have been to make a good client? How can you still do such a bad job after all these years iterating? This is your bread and butter and nothing is intuitive. Pay some american UI designers.
bigjhnny said 3 years ago
Hi, I just reverted back to 2.8. Skype is important to my life. The new UI isn't helpful. How can I dial an stranger by his screen name without adding him? Why do I need to flip thru different groups? It should just show on my list like it was before! Why can't I chat at the same time as I talk? Why is there so much wasted space on the contact list. I want to see my entire contact list…. What happens to the dropdown keypad shortcut when I dial numbers with dial tone?
bigjhnny said 3 years ago
If you guys need to release this, please at least make it so that people who prefer 2.8 can stick with the original UI and functionality. Thank you! I love skype!
matthewpryor said 3 years ago
Like the fact that you're developing and adding features. Dislike the new Window. Where are all the Skype contacts who are online, that's all that matters, not 5,000 people who are not on Skype.
But seriously, some of the vitriol on here is ridiculous. I guess it may show they care, but it borders on the sociopathic.
benbogart said 3 years ago
I don't care about the UI, I need functionality. You didn't give us Hi-Def and you took away screen sharing and other features that have been mentioned above. I can't use this for my work. I want to upgrade but have to stick with the older version.
chris_mcelman said 3 years ago
Reverted to 2.8. Specific issues:
-excessive use of screen real-estate
-no full-screen video?
-(adium issue) contact groups didn't seem to "stick" -
philippmirow said 3 years ago
good to see skype are still not listening to the users and adding a classic view that doesn't take over the entire display.
mirkokg said 3 years ago
Unfortunately not Mac friendly at all
I suspect the same team works on Skype for iPhone, they have similar problems.
Slow updates, CPU and Memory hogging etc.
Windows version is much more stable
Now the UI of Mac version is even worst than it was. Really disappointed! -
stevenlecomber said 3 years ago
Unbelievably awful; the worst GUI I have ever seen. Like many other users, I have gone straight back to 2.8, and if this is the best you can do I will ditch Skype and go over entirely to Adium.
victorofthepeople said 3 years ago
I love it. I think this is a significant improvement over the previous version and I like the UI.
I'm surprised at the strong reactions from many maybe caused by having gotten used to the previous version. There is probably room to build in some UI options so you can switch modes to work more like the previous version and I'm sure this will come in subsequent releases (remember this is a BETA!).
One of the things I miss which is in the Windows version is the ability to see the time of the person you are calling in the same window that you're chatting in or about to call from. In the Mac version I need to go to the users profile to see if it's a good time to call them.
trent.colbert said 3 years ago
I too am not happy with the beta. I think developers should study how people use skype or most communication tools. You don't put your telephone prominently in the middle of your desk do you? It's off in the corner until you need it or it rings. Likewise the new window size just clogs up your desktop, and if you do choose the smaller Contacts 'window' it persists in the top layer of the desktop. Who wants your Contacts showing if there is a movie playing. I also don't understand all the white space, even with the lifehacker.com Panamerica Mini font update it's like staring into the star-lit sky, all space and a handful of stars. I routinely use the Mac and Windows Skype versions and the 2.X versions of Skype are far superior to either the Windows or this new beta. Scrap this one guys.
I've been using Skype for a long time now and love it. I use it skype to skype, to skypeout, and have online number and multiple accounts that I use for different businesses. I'm your star application user and this beta should not go to retail.
donstaff1 said 3 years ago
I can only say that I'm thankful I didn't waste time trying this monstrosity. katie-whitcomb nailed it, saying "..This is obviously a Windows "program" masquerading as a Mac OS X "App" and it was ported by Windows lovers looking to play a joke on us. Get some Mac people working on this and keep the Windows people in their own cubicles!"
florence.broder said 3 years ago
I am a PC person that converted to a Mac. I loved this minimal interface. Less is more. It was simple and easy to use. But the features that I loved about the Windows version of Skype are still not here. I want to be able to find new friends via Gmail, Hotmail, etc. Don't you think Mac users have those type of accounts as well? In addition, since I use Entourage and not the Mac Mail program, my contacts did not appear, nor was I given an option to upload them.
While the group video feature is fabulous and long overdue, why doesn't the Mac 5 version interface with Facebook like the Windows version?
poshcoffee said 3 years ago
If this is going to be the new standard then you guys have just made me start looking for less intrusive and obnoxious competitors to Skype.
luisrosenthal said 3 years ago
Guys. Please call it a miss and revert the design.
I've just gotten back to the 2.8 version after 3 days of the beta version 5. Such a relief to see all small, tidy and on the way people really use it!Please don't take this as bad approach to novelty. I'm a great fan of skype designs over time The new one just doesn't work at all for me.
I'm not upgrading until is made compulsory or skype decides to change the design…
gingerbbm said 3 years ago
At the risk of sounding ungrateful, 5.0 is simply too large, so I've gone back to 2.8. Keep up the good work!
jiayangyuan said 3 years ago
I have to agree with most of the people here. The new interface is ugly and not easy to use. Welcome the new functions but death to the new interface. Plus my messages some time dont get send out. I have to restart skype to get my message to appear.
sfkleach said 3 years ago
As many people have observed it really is far too big. Cannot get rid of the avatar photos, I already know what my contacts actually look like. The text is far too widely spaced vertically. The font sizes cannot be adjusted (I actually need to make the writing bigger but more tightly spaced owing to my imperfect eyesight.
The real problem is that it displays who I have been chatting to anyone who looks over my shoulder. Whether that is in my office or home it invites questions such as "You called them yesterday?! Why was that?! And who is this person?" that may be very unwelcome. There is no way I could use the application as it stands. This is a complete show stopper for me (sorry!).
Although the one window approach is tidier and the appearance is an improvement, it is actually more confusing. I think this is because of the lack of visual theming. I really don't understand what is being shown in the sidebar or how to control it. I could not hide/show the sidebar, which I found very annoying.
I have gone back to version 2.8 after 30 mins of experimentation. Good luck getting it right – avoid displaying private history by default, make it themeable so you personalise it, make it more compact, and make it much easier to understand what you are looking at.
The current version is quite a long way from being an improvement, so please get it right and don't rush it. I like Skype.
sfkleach said 3 years ago
P.S. I second the recommendation that the designers take a look at Adium. This is the best chat client I have used on any platform. It is incredibly neat, unobtrusive and intuitive. I love Adium and use it every day. Skype gives a great service, and thank you very much for that, but can be much better from a design viewpoint.
mryan69 said 3 years ago
So…2 months of pretty much nothing but negative comments.
No response? Why hasn't there at least been a 2nd beta to address some of these issues?
It can't get worse…how about a little feedback to let us know what you're doing to make it better?
Don't be Apple…communicate openly with your Mac users. Thanks!
cyberatz said 3 years ago
Ok, so the video features are nice. But unfortunately that is about it. Everything else that has changed, from a GUI perspective, is simply not usable. If the only application i was using was skype, then yes, al almost full screen, super large version of of the app would be ok. but it's not. It's a companion application which should be getting out of the way of everything else. Maybe it would be good to take some OS X design queues from Adium. They're getting it right.
I do have to apologise for what seems to be a negative tone, but unfortunately i feel strongly that the current direction of the application for Mac is simply not the right direction.
Keep up the good work though. The service is still solid and the call quality good. -
chemariachi said 3 years ago
I am disappointed by the new user interface. I think it takes too much space. In general I use skype on a 13″ macbook and would like to have a smaller interface. Would it be possible to implement a choice between the "old" and "new" looks? It is also taking quite a bit of CPU nearly constantly ~15%. Perhaps I should be patient and wait for all the fixes. Minimalist approach to GUI would be great!
freezingmariner said 3 years ago
The new UI is friggin' huge, what a terrible design and unnecessary waste of screen real estate! Thank God for Spaces. Skype should take the person who designed the iPhone interface and have him/her redo the desktop version. I wish version 2.8 is still up for download.
augustine.foyle said 3 years ago
well i must say this is the biggest, fattest ugliest thing i have ever seen. the features are nice but way to big guys come on, you are better than this
bjb.beng said 3 years ago
Sorry guys…I really love supporting new builds and such, but I tried the beta, and couldn't stand it. Went back to good ol' 2.8; nice, tidy, and well designed.
juancgallardo9329 said 3 years ago
I have to agree with everyone else here in the comments that this design is first not Mac at all (And the guy in the video says they made it more "Mac native", I wonder what would have they do if it wasn't Mac native), and second a BIG step back for skype.
I like the new features, and I like to see skype growing, is one of my best applications, but I hate this interface that takes so much space in my screen. It looks like a windows app, and the reason I'm not running windows is exactly because I don't want their apps.
I staying one version behind this one, even if I lose some features. -
michaelmaser said 3 years ago
I'm a busy guy, use skype often for intra-org. conference calls, and I joined this forum to echo all the comments here:
The new version is brutal, ugly, inefficient, confusing and irritating.
Someone, or a group of people, should be held accountable for this monstrous 'downgrade'.
I'll now be putting in the time to revert to previous version.
- Michael Maser
ivan.ic.cooper said 3 years ago
Guys, are you kidding? The new design of skype 5 is ok as for me but not all I think the main problem is very big chatroom! I mean very big fonts and UI inside You should redesign this part and make more flexible design for all. I believe in you that you can implement it at its best! I keep silent about application stability but first the problem is design of the app!!!
Guys, come on! Let's do this!
dan.eichling said 3 years ago
Wow, I'll be honest and thought people were just way over-reacting to the redesign in Skype 5.0 – but that's not the case. I've used Skype on different platforms for many years, and while I think I see some things they are trying to do with 5.0 for the Mac I think they missed the mark on many key elements and usability features. I have high hopes they will take all this feedback to heart and work on making the actual release version of 5.0 something that people can readily use like 2.8. If you actually USE Skype in any practical way then steer far clear of this and stick with 2.8 – I'm "upgrading" from the beta to 2.8 now and couldn't be happier – guess I didn't know what I was missing til it was all gone.
bambamnew said 3 years ago
So there is no Facebook integration?
fatblast40 said 3 years ago
so retarded! seriously, who do you think we are????? i run many apps on my screen at once, why the hell would yours be entitled to more than 50% of the display, without even a real "online contacts" pane? skype was ALREADY such a great app the way it was, why did you make it WORSE????? thanks for adding mutli-person video calling, but would it be so hard to just add that feature without sabotaging the entire app along with it???
I was very optimistic for this new version when i heard it existed, and let down right away. + this crashed my OSX on a brand new Macbook Pro…. donwgrading immediately!! back to 2.8
ksb.kinematics said 3 years ago
way too large.
i always loved to have a small contact list which immediatelly shows who's online, and a chat window that only takes up space when used.
too large, contact list not detachable, to get through contact list i have to scroll, too much whitespace, can't change font size, takes up a huge amount of space even when I'm not chatting.
i'd rather keep the 2.8 design and just get the new features.
bodhipaksa said 3 years ago
What I like: group video is awesome, and the "curved screen" effect is a nice touch. Unfortunately everything else is a disaster.
Today in a call I switched to chat (the other party was struggling to get her audio working) and I could not work out how to get back to the video. I literally went through every menu looking for a clue, and found nothing. I was left and right-clicking on everything. I now know what it's like to be my 78-year-old father trying to figure things out on a computer. I felt really, really confused. I still have no idea how I actually got back to the video.
Then I tried to find full screen. There's a mention of it in your FAQ, but I could find no way to access full screen.
The contact list is clunkily huge and unmanageable. It takes forever to scroll down the list because the icons are massive. The coverflow is useless eye-candy. I don't have all day to scroll through a horizontal list a mile long. Sure, I can search. Maybe that's the point: make the contact list unusable so that we eventually notice and use the search feature. Bu I'd rather avoid typing, and would prefer to scroll (quickly) to the person I want to find.
Looking at the contact list I frankly have no idea any more which are purely phone contacts and which are Skype contacts. When I mouse over any contact I see a camera icon, suggesting that I can have a video call with them. The icon isn't even grayed-out. Skype can now do video calls with land-lines? Somehow I doubt it. Again, I feel confused, and stupid, and have to work harder to use your program..
I don't want to have my history in the left column. I want to have my contact list there, in a compact form. At least on the old version of Skype I could toggle between the two, although I'd hardly ever look at my history, which is completely useless to me. Let me tell you why. I use Skype for my retail business, and people call all the time with quick questions (and often they with wrong numbers looking for another business). What used to be a useful column of contacts is now a list of random numbers with no names attached. I have no idea whatsoever who any of those numbers belong to.
I'm staggered that this update is so badly thought out. It's all style and no (usability) substance.
daniel_horner said 3 years ago
I gave this a good solid try since November thinking I'd get used to it. I'm finally giving up and reverting to 2.8.
- The feel is big and bloated: a throwback to the days when applications vied for desktop real-estate.
- Fullscreen video isn't. You have to minimize all sorts of other sidebars and you still end up with distracting window decorations.
- It takes two clicks and a mouse trip across the desktop in order to initiate a new chat:
1) Click "Everyone"
2) Click your contact
3) Head on over to the right side and look for the chat button.- It takes two clicks on a menu to "close" a conversation in the sidebar.
Good effort, but I need unobtrusive functionality. I thought 2.8 was great and got hoodwinked into this for the multiway video calling.
miss_nunn89 said 3 years ago
i first download the 2.8 yesterday and then downloaded the 5.0 beta and i ended up switching back to the 2.8 i dont like how the 5.0 is so big it just looks ugly i like how small things were on the 2.8. Also i'm having trouble doing things that my friends can do on their skypes but i just figure that because i have a mac that it is not able to do the things that they can since they are probably using windows or hp or something. I like how my one friend can make her video picture all funny and weird and have little cartoons fly by or something. Also she can take a photo of me as were doing video n i cant. As well as i wanted to convert contacts from facebook but it doesnt allow me to do that on any of the two versions. Its actually been frustrating trying to figure it out.
cowan.comms said 3 years ago
Interesting: 429 comments between Nov 4 and Dec 29 and not one response. I thought the point of blogs etc., was to interact, rather than merely giving customers the impression they are being listened to. In any event, thank you all for your feedback. I'm glad I checked this before wasting time installing this version.
tim.jones.001 said 3 years ago
Group actions are not available anymore!
You don't seem to be able to easily start a group chat or group conf call by a quick click on the group in the contacts list => Please put this back in.
I agree with most of the others that this new version is too wasteful of screen space and much more cumbersome to use in terms of clicks.
I liked the minimalist feel to the older version and really appreciate being able to do everything really quickly without having to use the mouse at all.
I use skype a lot at work and at home and encourage others to do likewise, I won't be recommending this version however


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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Greivis Vasquez beat out Evan Turner, John Wall and others for the Cousy Award honoring college basketball's top point guard, and the ceremony was yesterday at the Basketball Hall of Fame. Here's how Big Red introduced Vasquez:
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I have confirmed Gary Williams & Greivis Vasquez coach and player of the year in the ACC. Congrats to both.
Vasquez is Maryland's first POY winner since Juan Dixon in 2002. Williams also won COY that season, before the Terps went on to win the National Championship.
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See also: Vasquez' original curious facial hair
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"How do you cope?" is the question I get asked most often. Most people cannot fathom half of the crap I fit into my life (let alone the trio). Truth is, I cope by trying not to sweat the small stuff, employing some good parenting ideas, being a generally lazy person (and hence looking for shortcuts everywhere) and enjoying chocolate.
This month is National Blog Posting Month, where bloggers attempt to write a post every day for all of November. I managed it last year (go on, check out the archives) and I'm going to give it a red hot go again this year. There is no official theme to the event, but I'm giving myself a theme - coping. In other words, I'm going to spend 30 days telling you how I cope with it all - so you can expect some random odes to ice cream, some decent family recipes, some general stuff about the madness of my life. I know, this theme is really no different to my usual blogging, but by giving it an official theme I feel somehow all grown up. AND being bound by the NaBloPoMo rules, I'll actually get some blogging done... instead of my usual sitting here and wondering what the hell to write about.
So, onwards to NaBloPoMo. As per normal, suggested topics, recipe requests, and general name calling all encouraged and appreciated.
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Just stopped by via the NaBloPoMo blogroll. Good luck this year. I'm jumping in too after taking a break in 2008.
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Me too, found you via NaBloPoMo - and I'm looking forward to watching your progress this month!
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Yesterday i did my first blog post... and its so interesting but little be scary...
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Welcome to my new readers! :) Here's hoping I don't bore the pants off of you.... yep, there I am setting the bar nice and low!
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News story on shooting victim hit
Interesting article concerning the 17-year-old boy who lost his life -- interesting because of the lack of details from your staff writer, Jeff Hawkes.
According to the article, David A. Montes-Ramos "attended but did not graduate from McCaskey" and enjoyed life handing our Gatorade and bubblegum.
But there were other details about this story that would have cast this 17-year-old in an entirely different light.
While I'm sure the boy will be missed by his family, and whoever committed the crime should be punished, there is no way this incident deserved the kind of news coverage it got from Hawkes.
Hawkes should quit his current job and find employment with a local trash hauler -- his reporting is garbage.
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Two stand out in my mind.
The first one was a group of talking, texting, roaming and laughing teenagers several rows down from me during Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
The next one was when my brother and I went to see the Friday the 13th remake. The movie had been out for a couple of weeks when we went to see it, so the theater was pretty bare. A guy who sat in the row directly behind us kept commenting on the movie the whole time, saying stuff trying to be funny. Unfortunatly, a couple of people sitting several rows down kept egging him on by laughing. Stupid morons.


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Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway is CLOSED due to hazardous road conditions.
Inclement weather often creates unsafe road conditions. Currently, there is a "glaze" of transparent ice on sections of the road. The Parkway will reopen as soon as State law enforcement officers deem it safe to travel upon.
Most campgrounds remain OPEN. Sites are available on first-come, first-served basis.
Jed Smith, Elk Prairie, Gold Bluffs Beach campgrounds are OPEN. All sites are available on first-come, first-served basis. Mill Creek Campground is CLOSED and will reopen May 16, 2014. More »
Gravel Access Road CLOSED.
Gravel access road to the Tall Trees trailhead is closed until further notice. Tall Trees Trail and Grove are still open. The easiest way to access this area is by hiking the Redwood Creek Trail, which is 8 miles one way.
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Did You Know?
Gray whales migrate just offshore along the California coastline as they travel from Alaska to Baja California; a 10,000-mile round trip journey. The best time to view these 45-foot marine mammals are December/January and March/April. Watch for their spouts that are shaped like a heart.