You can access a home page with news and other contacts, your imported contacts, conversations with favorite contacts and more, by selecting these categories in a column, on the left side of the window. Its user interface has a cleaner layout, which makes it much easier to find, import and manage contacts. Skype's Mac OS X version looks completely different from its Windows counterpart.
What's more, the application is capable of sending SMS messages to mobile phones and it also allows you to make PC-to-phone calls. You can exchange short text messages or use a microphone and webcam to talk and see your friends. It enables users to communicate in various ways, over any distance. One of the market's lead voice over IP applications (VoIP) is Skype. Today's modern applications and high speed Internet connections allow us to communicate with people all over the world instantly and free of charge, something that few thought to be possible fifteen or twenty years ago.