Skype is a software that you need to install on your computer in order to link up to Skype online and use the service to make and receive free calls with other Skype users.

Skype offers its users extensive voice and video calling features along with instant messaging and file sending capabilities that makes it an excellent means of keeping in touch with near and dear ones.

And if you should decide to make all of your calls using Skype you can opt for Skype’s premium facilities that enable you to do so. There’s SkypeOut, which enables you to call from your Skype to traditional landlines or mobiles anywhere in the world. And SkypeIn, which is essentially a phone number assigned to you from Skype, on which your friends can call you. The only difference is that you can answer your call online using Skype instead of a regular handset.

There is yet another feature from Skype available called Skype Voicemail, which acts as a sort of answering machine to take your calls when you are busy or offline. Skype is highly user friendly and comes with a strict no nonsense appeal, what you see is what you get. Skype is really handy to have around and you could just as well carry out all of your communications be it calling or chatting or file sharing through Skype.