While there is more software for Apple's Macintosh computers than ever before, it still falls behind Windows in some areas. One of them being add-ons for Skype, the popular internet communications software. In particluar, the ability to record Skype phone calls. Ther are a variety of ways of doing so, since a number of podcasts are recorded on Macs with Skype.

Check out an article at MacDevCenter.com for one method. Emily, the Quarterly editor wanted to record an interview. She had been using a cassette recorder, but recording on her Mac would give her the option of uploading the audio interview as a web extra for the magazine. However, I could not expect her to configure Audio Hijack and Soundflower to re-route the audio inputs and outputs of Skype, headphones and Garageband. Instead, I found an inexspensive utility with an unimaginative name from Ecamm, called Call Recorder which integrates with Skype and allows one click recording of calls. They include drag and drop audio converters that easily convert the resulting MOV audio file into MP3 or ACC format files suitable for podcasting or sharing on the web.