{"id":3255,"date":"2011-03-31T07:25:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T12:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2011-03-31T07:26:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T12:26:39","slug":"skype-5-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/31\/skype-5-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype 5 for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/skype_5\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/skype_5\/\"><p>The window no longer looks simple. Instead, it looks overwhelming. On the plus side, it&rsquo;s now easier to add a new contact, and I can decide whether to call somebody or start a chat by hovering over a contact. On the minus side, everything else. Since every Skype feature is crammed into a single window, that window feels overloaded. No longer do I see a simple list of contacts. Instead, I have a complex multi-paned window whose right panel shows entirely different things, depending on the application&rsquo;s mode.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m especially not a fan of the little buttons that only appear on mouse-over. <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/xcode-4\/\">Xcode 4<\/a> has many of the same issues, although on the whole I think its redesign was a success and most of the problems could be solved within its current paradigm.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukas Mathis: The window no longer looks simple. Instead, it looks overwhelming. On the plus side, it&rsquo;s now easier to add a new contact, and I can decide whether to call somebody or start a chat by hovering over a contact. On the minus side, everything else. Since every Skype feature is crammed into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}