Secret smiles of Skype

Some programs contain so-called"Easter eggs" - surprises from the developers. On the functional of the program such surprises usually do not affect, it's more like a joke, which will surely be appreciated by attentive users. But sometimes an Easter egg is a kind of bonus, like, for example, secret smiles of Skype.

How to use secret smiles in Skype

Written virtual communication is different fromThe real thing is that it's hard to express your emotions: there are no gestures, facial expressions, intonations. Remain only smiles. But sometimes when communicating on forums, blogs, ICQ, Skype, we sometimes do not have the standard smiley to express our emotions. When communicating in Skype, this problem is partially helped to solve the secret smiles of Skype.

Do not forget that secret smiles in Skype do not need to be installed additionally - they already are already in the program, you just need to know how to call.

But you can not add new smilies to Skype, sothat if on some site you are offered to download the add-on with smiles for Skype, you want to be deceived. Thus, users send malicious scripts to hack into their accounts for spamming.

15 major secret smileys Skype

In total, Skype has fifteen major secretsmileys. Some of them are available in older versions, some in versions from 3.0 and higher. To send a private smilie, you need to enter the name of the smiley in the chat in parentheses. Some of these emoticons are not very decent (maybe the developers have therefore not included them in the main smilies list).

So, offer you the codes of hidden smiles Skype:

(bandit)	(bug)	(drunk)
(finger)	(fubar)	(headbang)
(heidy)	(mooning)	(myspace)
(poolparty)	(rock)	(smoking)
(swear)	(tmi)	(toivo)

All codes must be entered with Latin characters and without spaces.

Well, in the newest versions of Skype, a few more secret smiles have been added. Secret smiles of Skype

Smilies in the form of national flags

In addition to these fifteen smileys, Skype's secret smiles include flags of various states. We will not list all the flags, let's just tell what the smiley code is written on.

To send the flag of any country to the interlocutor, you need to enter a type code (flag: aa) in the message field, where aa is the state domain whose flag you want to send.

For example, several codes of flags of different countries:

code of the flag of Russia - (flag: ru)

the flag code of Ukraine - (flag: ua)

US flag code - (flag: us)

code of the flag of the European Union - (flag: eu)

All other flags can be obtained in the same way - it is enough just to find out which letters denote the domain of the country of interest to you.

Secret smiles of Skype

Additional secret features for communication in Skype

In addition to hidden smiles in Skype, there are other interesting "chips".

You can make sure that your interlocutorInstead of a pencil that appears when you type a message, the cat's figure was displayed. To do this, you must simultaneously hold down on the keyboard three buttons that are not next to each other, and hold it for a while.

If you hold three adjacent buttons at the same time, instead of a cat there will appear hands that break a pencil.

Back in Skype there is an Easter egg from Londondevelopers. If to send the interlocutor a word (london), instead of it he will receive a smile (rain) - a cloud with a rain coming from it, a hint of a rainy London climate.