Welcome to How to Skype!

How to Skype is the most comprehensive guide to learn how to use skype. Step-by-Step video tutorials and hundreds of answers to the most common Skype Problems. You can also download for free tons of skype resources like Emoticons or Skins.

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What is Skype Bandwidth Consumption?

When you do a Skype call, whether it is just voice or video, it consumes data traffic, and use quite a huge amount of bandwidth, even if you are not in a call. Read More to find out how much exactly.

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How To Add Custom Status Messages on Skype

Ever wonder if you could configure and add a custom message for your different Skype Status?, Away, Offline, Skype Me, Not Available, Do Not Disturb, Invisible, just like you do with MSN Messenger?. Well, there seems to be at least one addon that allows you to leave text message replies for that.

And even though you won’t be able set or configure it for simple chat messages, you will be able to do it for calls, and choose between a recorded voice or a simply reply to an incoming call with a text message. The addon is called Pamela, and has tons of features besides the “answering machine” that is one we are interested in.

How to Make Skype Sharing Screen Bigger?

There seems to be a common problem when doing screensharing with Skype, sometimes the screen resolution is just too low to see, for instance, chunks of text or small icons. Fortunately, you can resize the window in order to have a better look at the video that is being streamed.

Screensharing is the most awesome video productivity tool created by Skype, but many problems are reported when working with it, from no video being streamed, to absence of sound.

How To Display Spotify Music Tracks on Skype?

Both Skype and Spotify are hugely popular applications, and since one of them is certainly useful to communicate, you might as well want to link these two together.

Here it comes ListeningNowTracker, which is an application that basically allows you to displaySpotify music tracks on Skype.

Both the Song Title and the Artist get displayed in your Skype Mood Status.