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Learn How To Use Skype Even If You Don’t Have An Account

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Skype, the most popular video calling website from the software giant Microsoft requires an account to use the service.

But recently the popular video calling service has introduced a new feature using which the users can now video call with their friends and family even if they don’t have an account.  This comes as an extension to the feature added by the company in 2015 October where the users are given the choice of adding non-Skype users to their conversations.

Using this feature, you will be considered as a guest. All the guest conversations are done with the unique link which one can share with their friends or family to whom he/she wants to talk over the video calling service. The link lasts for 24 hours and allows a text chat for about 300 people and 35 people over a voice or video call.

Screen and file sharing are the basic account features that can be accessed by guest users.

Getting started with Skype:

This is the webpage that one needs to go through to start up the process of accessing account free               Skype.

  • You will find an option called start the conversation, just click on it.
  • Enter a name for the conversation and it will prepare a screen for the conversation.
  • On the left side of the screen, you will find the copy the link option. After copying, you will send that link through various means like messaging, email, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp many others to the people whom you would like to chat with over the service.

PC users will be directed to open that link using the Skype app, or they can even choose to join the conversation using the web as a guest. Mobile users can join the conversation using the mobile app.

Get started with Skype without an account.

Why you need to turn off your Webcam immediately?

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Webcams are essential for today’s communication through desktops and laptops. But the same webcams causing privacy issues if the system got hacked or infected. We came across many incidents where hackers captured naked video footage from the systems they hacked.

How webcams hacked?

Any program such as Skype installed on the laptop can activate webcam and broadcast the captured images to the remote server. While browsing illegal, porn sites people accidently installs rogue browser extensions and software which take control every aspect of the computer. Remember that; any program can activate webcam if it has such functionality in the code written.

Disconnect or cover the Webcam

If you are using a webcam on your desktop computer, it is the best idea to unplug the webcam when not using it. People feel it discomfort to unplug and plug the webcam repeatedly whenever they want it. But the negligence can lead to webcam hacking. So never connect webcam continuously to the desktop computer.

A webcam on the laptop itself equipped onto the motherboard so that you can’t disconnect it. So it is a good idea to cover it with a small plastic tape or sticker. We can disable webcam through the Windows Device Manager or the BIOS. You can purchase webcam covers specially available to close the laptop webcam on the Amazon.

Skype voice and video calls now work plugin-free

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Now users can now use Skype without installing built-in plugin in their browsers. Microsoft recently announced that Skype now works with Microsoft Edge without any plugins installed in their browsers, but at present this feature is available only with Microsoft Edge, this feature will not work with other browsers like IE, FIREFOX, CHROME, OPERA etc at present, the user should install Microsoft edge in order to use this feature. Windows 10 by default comes with Microsoft Edge.

Skype for the web rolled out last year for the web users. Today Microsoft announced Skype for Web, Outlook.com, Office Online and OneDrive will support this plugin free Skype video, audio calls. Now you can simply have audio/video conversations on Skype for Web, Outlook.com, Office Online or OneDrive through Edge, no additional set-up process required for Skype.

At present Microsoft edge is currently available with Windows 10. Microsoft edge is the replacement for Internet explorer in Windows 10. Microsoft edge uses ORTC technology,a standard for video streams over the Web, that helps the Skype to work without plugin in Microsoft edge.

All Skype one-to-one calls from Microsoft Edge to the users who are using latest versions of Skype for Windows and Skype for Mac,i.e the other person with whom you are talking to must be on the latest version of Skype for Windows or Mac.

The plug-in free Skype does not support some features like Screen sharing and Calling landlines and mobiles ,so that the user should install plug-in for this.

Microsoft is planning to bring a plugin free audio and video calling in future for chrome and Firefox, for this the browsers should support H.264 video codec,but H.264 video codec is not compatible with chrome and Firefox at present. They are still in development stage, so now Microsoft edge users can now use Skype without plug-in installed in their browsers.