You can also follow your contacts’ mood updates, though you’ll need to head to Preferences > Advanced to enable the new features.īy themselves mood messages might seem a bit “me too!” but Dan York claims there is a way to pass your mood updates on to Twitter, which would make the feature mildly more useful. Mood messages act just like Facebook status updates or Twitter posts - short messages broadcasting what you’re doing. There’s also a new “mood” message feature that adds another small social network feature to Skype.

Skype’s screen sharing should make tasks like product demos, collaboration or even video sharing significantly easier. The screen sharing features aren’t as robust as what you’ll find in iChat (there’s no way to control the other user’s screen, or interact with their desktop), but the cross-platform aspect is something iChat lacks. Because the screen sharing feature works over the Skype video channel, it’s possible to share screens across Skype platforms - Windows, Linux and Mac OS X - something that is often difficult to set up via IM clients. Perhaps the most notable of the new feature in Skype for Mac 2.8 is the screen sharing feature which allows you to share either your entire screen, or just a select portion, with other Skype users. The latest version will add some new Mac-only features like screen sharing, per-minute calls via wifi service Boingo and the ability to follow updates to your friends’ Skype “mood.”

Skype has announced a new version of Skype for Mac, the company’s voice over IP solution for Mac OS X.

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