SkRead: abandonware speaking of Skype events

SkRead was once enormously popular, and I must firstly extend an apology to everyone who’s wanted updates but hasn’t got them. It’s something of a policy with me that if I’ve written software and no longer use it, I cannot, in good conscience, update that software.

of course there are exceptions to this rule - I can’t be expected to use my own software for every conceivable task, equally I use some of my own things more than others. But I no longer use Skype, and so no longer use (or can help work on) SkRead. to add insult to injury, the source code is long-since lost in a hard drive crash.

With all that said, I gladly put here the download of SkRead. Please feel free to comment, if you have anything at all to say.

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3 Responses to “SkRead: abandonware speaking of Skype events”

  1. Sean Says:
    February 7th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    There is a Skype Forum post in Italian about SkRead at http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=65632

    Thanks to Talksina for the work!

    Also at http://blindsight.eu/download.htm (Italian).

  2. fastfinge Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    If you want similar functionality on OS X, you can:
    1. install Adium.
    2. install the skype plugin.
    3. set adium to read messages via growl.
    If you’re an OS X user and want help with this, contact me.

    If you feel this is off topic, Sean, feel free to nuke it. My main concern, now, is OS X accessibility; hense my not wanting to do new sjams features.

  3. Jeet Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    Hello shaun, as you have said that source codes are no more, could you please tell me in which language you developed this program, and any kind of resources that help me in learning it?

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