Skype Hacks

Credits

About the Author

Andrew Sheppard has been fascinated by technology and science since childhood, and it’s an indulgence that has continued to this day.

Since discovering Skype in 2004, Andrew has been using and hacking Skype in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways—if Skype came with any sort of warranty, he voided it long ago! Although his initial foray into using Skype was to find ways to save money on his phone bill, the true potential of Skype’s ability to do things that no regular phone system can do soon overtook that initial interest and replaced it with a fascination and desire to see “how deep the rabbit hole goes” (to borrow some words from the movie The Matrix). He’s still burrowing!

Andrew is the publisher of a couple of online electronic magazines about Skype: Elpis’s Skype Power User Magazine (ISSN 1747-8421) and Elpis’s Skype API Developer Magazine (ISSN 1747-843X). The concept behind Elpis (http://www.elpispublishing.com/) is that knowledge, without the tools to take advantage of that knowledge, is rather powerless, while the converse is a path to empowerment. Elpis Publishing’s aim is to provide its readers with both the knowledge and the software needed to best use that knowledge: Knowledge + Tools = Empowerment.

After earning a first-class honor’s degree in astrophysics, Andrew made the mistake of going on to earn higher degrees: a master’s in astronomical technology at Edinburgh University (UK) and a master’s in business administration at the London Business ...