00110102... WTF?!? » Skype http://www.hintswen.com/blog For everything Grey Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:43:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 China filtering our skype conversations http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/03/china-filtering-our-skype-conversations/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/03/china-filtering-our-skype-conversations/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:35:18 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=49 China has been monitoring and censoring messages sent through Skype.

Aparently there are thoudands of messages and recordings of conversations that have been recorded.

This might come as no surprise to you as china seems to be filtering just about everything else anyway.

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It’s basically Skype for the iPhone. It is currently availiable for download from the Apple Store.

]]> http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/02/freecall-iphone-to-iphone/feed/ 0 Someone click uninstall cause Skype has just got to go! http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/06/22/someone-click-uninstall-cause-skype-has-just-got-to-go/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/06/22/someone-click-uninstall-cause-skype-has-just-got-to-go/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:12:31 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=17 I’ve been reading about these ‘subscriptions’ for Skype lately. Basically you select a country and pay a monthly fee, you then get ‘unlimited’ (subject to fair use policy which is 10,000 minutes a month) seems like a great deal doesn’t it? So after a few days of thinking about it I decide to get a subscription for Australia. When I get to the payment options I choose PaPal. The most convenient option for me seeing as I don’t have a credit card and it is the easiest option for me… Or so I thought.

Once I chose PayPal as my payment option and filled in my details I was presented with a screen asking me to enter my credit card details. Credit card details? What do they need my credit card details for? I have AU$28 in my PayPal account and Skype should only be charging me about $6. I canceled the payment and tried again only to get the same problem. I did some research and it seems you can no longer use your PayPal balance to pay for anything on Skype, or if you can you need to enter your credit card details first (some even saying then needed to add multiple credit cards to their account).

So what is someone like me supposed to do? Someone who has no credit card. Here are all the options for people in Australia:

  • Paypal – don’t have a credit card so I cant use it.
  • Visa – don’t have a visa card.
  • mastercard – don’t have a mastercard.
  • POLi – never heard of it so I wouldn’t want to use it. some kind of internet banking thing though
  • Diners – what is ‘Diners’? Isn’t that what I’m called when I go to a restaurant? Or do they mean Diners club? Why don’t they just say that? (and I don’t have one anyway)
  • Moneybrookers – same reason as POLi
  • Regulat bank transfer – Sure I would but this would be too much hassle for me.

So goodbye Skype you just lost a customer. Maybe you can e-mail me when you let me use my PayPal balance.

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