Skype x 2 please!
At home I have a Mac laptop that has all of my home IM accounts, Twitter, Email etc setup.
In a bag I try not to open when I get home lives my work supplied Windows laptop. Installed on this horrible machine is the full range of work IM accounts, twitter, email etc for work purposes.
In a moment of frustration with my windows laptop I got to thinking, I wonder if I could get the main stuff I need for work on the Mac and I wouldn’t have to ever open the windows laptop again?
This actually proved pretty easy, I got my corporate email into Entourage, loaded all my work IM accounts into Adium and “bobs your uncle”, I was away!
But Skype was one I just couldn’t solve for. The reality is its impossible to run two simultaneous skype accounts on the one user account of OSX, and I think indeed Windows.
Solution: enter a wonderful applescript called: Peek-o-Matic written by a chap by the name of Andreas Schuderer.
Ive now got 2 skype instances running 2 different accounts alongside something like 20 IM accounts in Adium, Twitter and about 15 email address’s through Entourage
Ill be having a burn the windows laptop party later tonight.
Later
Tags: Adium, Andreas Schuderer, applescript, Mac, OSX, Skype, Twitter
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