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How Skype Is Helping Topple A Dictator In Syria This article from Mashable gives us another reason to love technology. Skype is the go-to social network for communication between rebels, anti-government activists, journalists and officials inside and outside of Syria. Why? Skype uses wiretapping-resistant Voice over IP (VoIP) technology, making it safer for transmitting messages while under the watchful eyes and ears of government censors. It’s free to download and easy to use, both positives for cash-strapped rebels and activists. Its video-based chatting makes it easier to identify the person on the other line, important when verifying information as legit amidst the fog of war. And it provides an easy way for Syrians to gather electronically in areas where assembling in person poses too great a security risk. [Image:via Khalil Mazraawi/AFP/Getty Images]

How Skype Is Helping Topple A Dictator In Syria

This article from Mashable gives us another reason to love technology.

Skype is the go-to social network for communication between rebels, anti-government activists, journalists and officials inside and outside of Syria.

Why? Skype uses wiretapping-resistant Voice over IP (VoIP) technology, making it safer for transmitting messages while under the watchful eyes and ears of government censors. It’s free to download and easy to use, both positives for cash-strapped rebels and activists. Its video-based chatting makes it easier to identify the person on the other line, important when verifying information as legit amidst the fog of war. And it provides an easy way for Syrians to gather electronically in areas where assembling in person poses too great a security risk.

[Image:via Khalil Mazraawi/AFP/Getty Images]

Do your video chats look like this? If so, maybe it’s time you learned some tricks to make your video calls look better. Amber Mac offers three simple tips (along with some convincing before and afters to seal the deal) to improve your webcam video picture. Read more—>

Do your video chats look like this? If so, maybe it’s time you learned some tricks to make your video calls look better.

Amber Mac offers three simple tips (along with some convincing before and afters to seal the deal) to improve your webcam video picture. Read more—>