Download Skype Offline Installer

by Chris on 6 January 2012

Skype Offline Installer

Skype’s installer falls into the class of installers that dynamically pull components from the Internet during installation. The benefits of such an approach are obvious: smaller installers that download only the latest version of the components actually needed.

The approach is often annoying if, for example, you’re trying to deploy Skype on multiple computers or you’re using an outbound firewall. It doesn’t help matters that Skype does an excellent job of concealing the offline Skype installer on its website.

To download the full standalone offline Skype installer directly from the Skype website, click the link below:

Offline Skype Installer

http://download.skype.com/SkypeSetupFull.exe

It would be most helpful if companies that use online installers provided easy-to-find links to the offline installer equivalents, particularly where the offline installer equivalents already exist.

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How to Make an .iso Disc Image from a CD or DVD in Mac OS X

by Chris on 30 December 2010

Burn Icon

If you’re a seasoned Windows native, you’re probably familiar with ImgBurn. ImgBurn is an excellent utility for working with .iso disc images on Windows (and for burning and working with discs generally).

Burn is to Mac OS X what ImgBurn is to Windows—a great, free utility for working with disc images and discs in general. And it’s a great solution if you’re looking for a way to make an .iso disc image from a CD or DVD in Mac OS X.

To make an .iso disc image from a CD or DVD, start Burn and you’ll see the main Burn window:

Click Scan… from the main Burn window, and you’ll be prompted with a list of all the currently mounted images, which will include any CD or DVD in your optical disc drive.

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How Much Bang Can Optical Fibre Cable Deliver?

14 December 2010

Amid the bluster about whether the NBN warrants the investment, it hasn’t always been made clear exactly what the proposed network will do.

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How to Disable Chrome’s Built-in PDF Viewer

12 December 2010

I’m a big fan of Google’s Chrome browser, but, as of version 8, Google’s shipping the browser with its own built-in PDF viewer enabled by default. But I like to read my PDFs in Acrobat outside of the browser. So, how do you disable Chrome’s built-in PDF viewer?

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Fix Missing eth0 When Cloning Ubuntu VMware Virtual Machines

25 July 2010

When cloning an Ubuntu VMware virtual machine, eth0 goes missing. You can fix the problem by deleting /etc/udev/rule.d/70-persistent-net.rules in the newly cloned virtual machine and rebooting.

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Antivirus Software To Become Mandatory?

1 July 2010

A new report is recommending that vulnerable computers be barred from accessing the internet – but the idea risks creating more problems than it solves.

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Google Is Watching

25 May 2010

Google’s collection of information about Wi-Fi networks may not breach any laws, but concerns loom over the company’s attitude to private data.

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Add ?NoCleanFeed or &NoCleanFeed to Blacklisted URLs to Bypass Mandatory Australian Internet Censorship

20 December 2009

Depending on the technology, you can bypass the proposed Australian mandatory filter by changing your DNS servers, using an encrypted VPN service, or installing Tor. But these workarounds can take up to 60 seconds to set up, and can slow your access somewhat. Instead, you can bypass the filter by simply adding ?NoCleanFeed or &NoCleanFeed to the end of the blacklisted URL.

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How to Get Rid of Temporary Posts Used for Theme Detection Permanently

17 November 2009

Windows Live Writer is an exceptional tool for blogging. But it relies on an inelegant mechanism to detect the theme used by your blog. The result is an Internet littered with Temporary Posts Used For Theme Detection. Thankfully, you can use a WordPress plugin to prevent these posts from ever appearing on your website.

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Get to Any Section on AustLII in One Step

6 September 2009

If you’re using a browser that supports search keywords, you can add a keyword for your favourite Australian act. For example, you can add a ‘tpa’ keyword, so that when you type ‘tpa 52’ in the address bar, you’re taken directly to s 52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth).

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ACMA Blacklists Iran Protest Video & Boing Boing

28 August 2009

Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed during the Iranian election protests. Her death was captured on video, and spread virally on the Internet, becoming a rallying cry for the Iranian protests. Now, ACMA has blacklisted the video, and a Boing Boing post commenting on it.

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Resolving the Abortion Debate in South Australia

28 August 2009

The Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA) s 82A allows medical termination of pregnancy, so long as the termination poses less risk to the life of the woman than the pregnancy does (not only if the pregnancy carries abnormally high risk). And it appears that abortion in the first 16 weeks is safer than live birth.

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