Kid Safety Online and Skype Me

Alec Saunders has a post today on keeping kids safe on the Internet. A new product called IMSafer allows parents to monitor unsafe or suspicious online messaging while still protecting kids’ privacy. Bravo! See http://www.imsafer.com/. The subject of kid safety online brings me to Skype and their talk-to-a-stranger-anytime feature called Skype Me. Skype Me essentially disables [...]

Guide to all those Skype icon things…part 1

The good news is that hovering your mouse over just about anything in the Skype window will display a tool tip (a little one-sentence definition or status report). However, I found that almost right away I needed a cheat sheet for the online status icons, those green or gray clouds beside each contact. If you have anything [...]