Record Skype Calls Automatically From Selected Contacts

Sometimes you may want to record a Skype call you are about to make. Maybe because you are interviewing someone, need the recording for your records or because it is for research or study purposes and you’d like to get back to it later on.

We have covered several Skype recorders in the past, including Call Graph, Skype Call Recorder, MP3 Skype Recorder or iFree Recorder.

All have in common that they allow you to record Skype calls. Some can do that automatically while others only on manual request.

Skype Auto Recorder joins the list of applications, but instead of just being “another” audio recorder, it adds features to the table that many of the other programs are not offering.

Probably the most prominent of features is the ability to block and enable calls from individual contacts or groups to be recorded. This happens silently in the background without any user intervention or action.

There is two things that you need to do after installation. You first need to allow the application to access Skype. This pops up automatically after installation if Skype is running, or on the next start of the voice over IP software.

You then need to check the program settings for the initial configuration. Here you can select the output directory and format for recorded conversations, block contacts from being recorded at all, and create filters to change the default save location and name for selected contacts.

You can configure the program to only record calls from contacts that you have added to the filters listing. For that, you need to uncheck Record unfiltered conversations to, to avoid the recording of other conversations by the program.

The last option lets you increase the volume of the recordings automatically.

Calls are from that moment on automatically recorded by the application. Skype Auto Recorder indicates a recording session with a red dot on the program icon. Mp3s are saved with the following parameters: 64 kb/s bitrate, 16000 khz sample rate and mono channel. No settings are provided to change the quality of the recording.

Skype Auto Recorder can be downloaded from the developer website over at Codeplex. (via Addictive Tips)

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Remember To Call Notifies You Of Important Phone Calls

If you ever forgot to make an important phone call or be at home or office to receive one, you may appreciate the small portable program Remember To Call. The program acts as a basic reminder on your system that notifies you when it is time to make that one call that you have to make. The application has a few downsides to it, more about that later.

When you first start the program you will notice that you can configure one alarm in the application interface.

Here you can select the date and time that you want the alarm to notify you, and whether the alarm should notify you repeatedly or only once.

The program supports two types of notifications. You can select to have it open a file for you automatically at the time of the notification, display a custom text notification, or, and that is optional, play an alarm sound.

You may want to click on the test button to see if what you have configured is working the way it is intended. Especially the ability to load documents is interesting, as you could use the program to load an important spreadsheet or another file of importance automatically that you need to access during the call.

A click on Enable/Disable enables the alarm on the system. The program informs you if the selected settings are erroneous. This happens for instance if your selected notification date is in the past. You can then minimize the program to the system tray.

As mentioned earlier, the program has a few downsides to it. The biggest without doubt is the inability to configure multiple alarms. You can run the application multiple times for that but it is not the best solution if you ask me. Another related issue is that you cannot set alarms to repeat on specific days in the future. If you are making an important phone call every second Tuesday in the month, you may want the notification program to alarm every time automatically instead of having to configure it again to match the next upcoming date.

The excellent Alarm++ does that better but it is a commercial program. A basic alternative is College Alarm Clock.

You can download Remember to Call (90) directly from our servers. The developer web page is no longer available.

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