Skype Free download and software reviews. Pros. It exists as a last choice. POSSIBLY has some other good features that I dont particularly care about. Cons. In almost every way worse than it used to be for making international calls to non VOIP telephones. Summary. About 8 or so years ago, Microsoft bought Skype, which was at the time the 8. VOIP arena. 8 years later, Skype has become much worse for what it used to do well at the expense of products that I personally dont need. I used to use Skype to make cheap calls overseas. Occasionally, someone would have a Skype account as well and I could speak with that person that way, but mostly, I used it to call businesses overseas or landlines, etc. With this latest iteration, Skype now FORCES me to invite anyone on my address book to join Skype. Google Earth 7 0 Beta Exe' title='Google Earth 7 0 Beta Exe' />I can call that person by manually cutting and pasting their number, but I cant actually call a person from my address book without inviting them to drink the kool aid. PERHAPS all the new conferencing features and language tranlation features are awesome. But Im not going to find out because Im going to stop using this POS that used to be my go to standard for VOIP. Reply to this review. Was this review helpful 1. Pros. Good tool. used to be a fan Cons. Freezes when you least expect it. Popups are killing. Ads are annoying when minimizing the conversation screen. Too pushy. Reply to this review. Was this review helpful 1. Prosjust long tradition. Google Earth 7 0 Beta Exercise' title='Google Earth 7 0 Beta Exercise' />Consunstable. Reply to this review. Was this review helpful 1. Organize, edit, and share your photos Picasa 3. Now with Google sharing. Axis Camera Station 1 License Unlimited. Upload, Tag, and Transform your photos with Picasa 3. Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. Archiver Mozilla Firefox Google Earth 65 files 85 280 391 bytes 483 files 110 700 519 bytes Compressed size Ratio Compressed size Ratio 7Zip 9. Skype lets you make free voice and video calls to other Skype users, and to call any regular phone line for reasonable rates. You can also chat online for free. A Google employee familiar with the feature spoke to Lifehacker to clarify how corrections to the OneBox section affect search results. Feedback is ordered by. Pros. It does what its designed to do. Cons. Updates are a problem with downloading. Had to reinstall this time, hence the need. Summary. As stated earlier, does the job. Reply to this review. Was this review helpful 1. Pros. Fast, easy, and popular. Cons. None. Works Fine. Summary. This program is my favorite, some people are just butt hurt that their pc is ancient. Reply to this review. Was this review helpful 1. Pros. Its free for video chat. Cons. It crashes your computer and uses excessive resources even when it is supposed to be idle. It logs itself in, even when you dont want to. It gave me nothing but trouble. Summary. I had to uninstall Skype, and Im not looking to try it again. I will not install it in my new Windows 8. I wont install it after the Windows 1. After seeing so many negative reviews here, and horror stories from friends, I feel I am making the right decision. I gave it one half star. Reply to this review. Was this review helpful 1. Pros. Its Skype, its free. Cons. Broke my computer. Summary. I dont even know how Microsoft manages this garbage. I let it update and how its giving not enough space to complete this action errors constantly. That is, after I had to re install my video driver how did they break that and I had to reinstall Google Chrome stealthily destroying the competition or something. Each update I install causes more issues. Updated on Jun 2. Why does this program need over half a gig of RAM just to sit idle Reply to this review. Was this review helpful 1. Pros. Free. That is it really. Cons. Keeps dropping calls, unreliable connection. I hate the fake ring when dialing out as I never know if the call is actually connected just not answered or indeed there is a connection error. It is eating CPU and battery, my phone wound go flat in about an hour after being on Skype. Summary. I have been using Skype for many years now and was completely satisfied up until a couple of years ago. I would gladly change to an alternative but unsure which one to pick as there doesnt seem to be a better one. Reply to this review. Was this review helpful 1. Elephant Seals Know When Their Opponents Are Talking Shit. Yelling at each other online is a beloved human tradition. Other animals like to shout at each other too, they just dont have the luxury of a screen separating them. But of all the petty creatures in the animal kingdom, it turns out elephant seals might be most like humans when it comes to talking shit. A new study published on July 2. Current Biology suggests that elephant seals are able to recognize the tone and rhythmic patterns of their rivals calls. Just as it is with people who squabble online, maintaining dominance is very important to elephant seals social order. A team of researchers spent weeks studying an elephant seal colony in Ao Nuevo State Park, California, where they were able to identify the alpha male and record his call. The team changed the rhythm and timbre of the call, and presented two modified versions back to the seal colony, in addition to the original. When the researchers played the original alpha male call to ten beta males, the non dominant seals scrambled away in fear. When they played their edited versions, however, the beta males were unafraid when the changes in the beat were more extreme. Therefore, the researchers concluded that the beta seals understood that they were not hearing the alpha males call. This is the first natural example where on a daily basis, an animal uses the memory and the perception of rhythm to recognize other members of the population, co author Nicolas Mathevon of the Universit de LyonSaint Etienne in France said in a statement. Humans can do this too, of course. There have been experiments with other mammals showing that they can detect rhythm, but only with conditioning, Mathevon added. In general, elephant seal calls sound like a broken car. But while they might not be the most elegant musicians, elephant seals need to understand each others calls so that they dont die. It is possible that maybe the ability to perceive rhythm is actually very general in animals, Mathevon said. But its extremely important for elephant seals, to the point of survival. Competing for females, the males fight very violently, even to the point of killing one another. So its very important for them to accurately recognize the voices, to be able to choose the right strategy, to know to avoid a fight with a dominant male, or even to start a fight with an inferior one. Of course, there are some limitations here. This study only analyzed one colonymaybe they were just some really socially conscious elephant seals. More research is needed to determine weather or not all elephant seals can understand pitch and the beat of other elephant seal speech. Anyway, while elephant seals arent the most eloquent species, Id still rather listen to their caterwauling over any Chainsmokers song.