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How to hide your clutter using Zoom, Skype, Teams, or Jitsi

The Verge

Here is how to hide your clutter when you’re videoconferencing, using three well-known apps for consumer and business meetings — Zoom, Skype, and Microsoft Teams — and a lesser-known but often mentioned open-source app, Jitsi Meet. Skype offers both a blur feature and virtual backgrounds. Jitsi Meet.

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Microsoft won’t say if its products were exploited by spyware zero-days

TechCrunch

Microsoft has released patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in two popular open source libraries that affect several Microsoft products, including Skype, Teams and its Edge browser. But Microsoft won’t say if those zero-days were exploited to target its products, or if the company knows either way.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WebHuddle is free, and open source. But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. It does mean that everyone who is involved in a webinar needs to install Skype – but that seems to be a minor issue, to my mind. That would be the holy grail.

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Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with universal chat app

The Verge

It’s built on the open source Matrix messaging protocol (Migicovsky previously described NovaChat’s relationship to Matrix as akin to Gmail’s relationship with email), and although the client app itself isn’t open source, the bridges connecting it to other chat services are. Facebook Messenger. Android Messages (SMS).

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Satellite Internet gets the boot

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I can Skype again (once I figure out how to use my USB headset on Linux.) Unfortunately, it is the apparently increasingly dastardly Comcast, but it is so way much better than satellite by Hughesnet , that I can’t really find it in myself to complain. I have to admit to being a very happy camper. { Be Helpful.

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Favorite Free Software

Robert Weiner

Google Talk — An alternative to Skype, but only for 1 to 1 calls: [link]. Skype — Free VOIP calls, conference calls, and video calls: [link]. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Glary Utilities — Another Windows registry cleaner: [link].

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The best free apps for video calling

The Verge

Skype Meet Now. Skype, now part of Microsoft, has added video conferencing to its VoIP features. Skype has been the go-to platform for one-on-one conversations since the beta was released in 2003. Open source with plenty of features. Jitsi Meet is an easy-to-use open-source video platform. Jitsi Meet.

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