A Skype press release hit the wires the other day, announcing Skype 1.5 for Mac OSX. Eagerly we scanned it, and found.. no mention of video calling. This seemed strange (well, maybe not) since Skype for PCs has had video since December, and Steve Jobs has been showing off video chats over iChat since June 2003 (and boy, doesn't that one get boring quite quick).
It's not that we have a lot of use for video chat, you understand. Just that it would be nice to feel Mac users had something approaching feature parity. (Personally, I've made two video calls over iChat. Both were to confirm that the thing worked - once for the stuff on my end, the other time for the stuff on the other person's end.)
However a little ferreting by the Powerpage has turned up the link to the "preview release" (can nobody say "beta" anymore?) of the Skype video version for the Mac. "So you've found the Video Preview of Skype for Mac," the page admits, as if sighing.
So download it with glee, noting the warning that
The Video Preview of Skype for Mac is only recommended for experienced users and should not be used on a production system that you depend on
We should also note that Ed Parsons (of Ordnance Survey) has pointed out Routebuddy, for the Mac-surplused and GPS-deprived. Nice one, Ed.
