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"Thousands of Skype users slammed the new 5.0 Beta for Mac release, complaining about its obtrusive UI.\r\n\r\nThe amount of white space in chat messages raised a considerable amount of complaining, but thanks to an article from DisruptiveTelephony, we now know how to fix it.\r\n\r\nHow to create a new chat interface\r\n\r\n\tRight-click Skype.app in your Applications folder\r\n\tClick &amp;quot;Show Package Contents&amp;quot;\r\n\tGo into Contents &amp;amp;gt; Resources &amp;amp;gt; ChatStyles.\u00A0There is only one style there, &amp;quot;Panamericana.&amp;quot; You can open it to then restyle chats through the typical combination of CSS, HTML and JavaScript.\r\n\tInstalling: Extract the contents of the chat style from a zip file\r\n\tInstall them into &amp;quot;~/Library/Application Support/Skype/ChatStyles&amp;quot; (create the folder if you need to)\r\n\tRestart Skype and then choose your chat style from the Preferences:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCheck out PongSocket to download &amp;quot;Panamerica Mini,&amp;quot;\u00A0a smaller chat style\u00A0here.\r\n\r\nWe hope to see a few new Skype chat styles available as this post speeds around the Internet.\r\n\r\nN.B. This modification is not available for Skype 5.0 on Windows.\r\n\r\nSee our complete Skype review here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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