Skype Download 2.8.0.866 or 6.15 for Mac 10.6.8 Updated

April 24, 2022 Post a Comment

Skype Download 2.8.0.866 or 6.15 for Mac 10.6.8

The way we talk on the Cyberspace fundamentally changed over the by 20 years. When I came online through AOL in the mid 1990s there were chat rooms and instant messaging clients. I still remember the *beep* of my ICQ customer when receiving a message all those years after.

ICQ Logo ICQ's fame didn't final forever, and it would eventually be inherited by Skype on my Mac. Skype did not merely contain most of ICQs features (a manageable contact listing, live chat, file transfer, etc.) only also added phonation over IP telephony. Including fifty-fifty video telephony, though the video office was never mandatory. A baffling concept for millions of users that still paid hefty sums for long distance calls to their service providers.

Ever since using Skype I had been happy with it, if it weren't for the Microsoft accept-over and the subsequent aggressive advertising that led so many Skype users to block any new updates. (They usually came with lots of ads and other bloat)

End of PowerPC support

Of form in that location was a Skype customer for Os Ten, and things worked so wonderfully when they appear the drop of PPC support in futurity versions. Alright, no problem – we merely keep using our old client, and as long every bit in that location are no primal changes, we'll happily continue. "Well, you won't," replies Skype, "because we're doing a version cheque upon connecting to the server and will go along y'all out of our yard if you don't have at to the lowest degree version 6.15.0.334 running. And to make things even more difficult, we won't offer a PowerPC version for download anymore!"

Well, those quotes are entirely from the fantasy of yours truly, and the reality comes closer to, "Who is still using a PowerPC Mac in 2016? Let'south drop these downloads and save bandwidth". Well, piffling do they know about our fine little community all the same clinging to their old machines!

All the same, there is a way around their lock-out and here is how to get Skype going on your 10.4 & 10.5 PowerPC Mac again:

Download Skype_2.viii.0.866.dmg and install information technology to your hd, e.g. applications folder
Download TextWrangler or another capable text editor similar Smultron if y'all don't already have 1. Beware: OS Ten Text Edit won't do.
Start the Skype app, go to settings, and disable automatic update. Otherwise it'll overwrite your changes. Quit the app.
Go to Skype in your applications folder and open the folder by right-clicking the symbol and cull "open package contents"
Open up the contents folder, so open the info.plist file. This XML file contains the info on what version we're using.

Skype info.plist in TextWrangler

Replace the three instances of the old 2.viii.0.866 with 6.xv.0.334. Be cautious not to modify annihilation else in this file. And then relieve the changes and shut.
Now outset up Skype, blazon in your user name and password and connect. Voilá – yous're using Skype on your PowerPC Mac again!

The only downer so far is that I couldn't get my iSight camera to work, and so it'southward only phonation telephony so far. Still, cracking for a more than-than-a-decade-onetime PowerPC Mac, correct?

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