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Ever do phone conferences? Ever put your microphone on mute only to be asked a question and then scramble your mouse to unmute your microphone? Well I do all of the above, well, until I came across a forum post at the Skype forums. I gave the guy's suggestion a go using ⌘M as the mute/unmute button but that only minimized the window. So, instead, I chose ⌘Z and it worked a charm; note, you will need to wait a little after call starts ringing before you can hit the keyboard shortcut. Plus, the keys are nice and close on the keyboard.

I generally hate to update things which work just fine. There is usually very little reason to: the application is in use because the stability and feature set of the current version are good. Now I have used Skype for years (probably only using 20% of the available feature set) and I always loathed upgrading because it'll try and install a bunch of stuff I don't need. Which is bad, but installing utter crap now that's just not on. Take a look at what Skype's FireFox addon does to my links below.

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