New Skype For Mac Update Finally Includes Full Screen Mode

I lean on Skype pretty heavily, so when a fairly substantial update for the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)/messaging service goes live, my ears tend to perk up. The new Skype 5.6 update has me especially tickled — it’s now available for folks of the Mac persuasion, and it thankfully packs a handful of bugfixes as so then as a slew of new features.

Textual indiscretions aside, Skype 5.6 as well brings with it the ability to auto-update when new versions are released, as so then a new full-screen app mode that comes seven months afterwards Apple’s Lion update added support for the feature. Better late than never, as they always say.

Throw in a new dynamic layout for video calls that puts the current speaker at the top of the window and the ability to combat background noise by fiddling with Automatic Gain Control, and that’s a wrap for the 5.6 update. Mac users will probably want to jump on this one, and fortunately they can download the new version of Skype right here.