Had I only known about SkypeOut (where Skype supports calling out to plain vanilla phones) two weeks ago, I would have saved a bucket of Euros making calls back to the States. Of course, that would have been a savings over the exorbitant hotel phone charges I was looking at. There has been a lot of fuming about SkypeOut rates, and especially the shift since the beta (see Stuart Henshall, for example), but the image of me calling home through my laptop from Starbucks in London is very pleasant. (Of course, I couldn't connect wirelessly at Starbucks, but that was because I was infected by SearchV, but that's a different story.)