On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:24:27 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

My son rigged up something through Yahoo on my dad's computer to talk
with by brother and his family in panama. When they signed in a little
banner would give an alert in the lower right corner to tell you they
were there on and we could talk to them fairly easily. but you had to
take turns, because the over-lap in voices was bad.

We didn't use video at the time, dad's computer was on dial up (and
still is) so vid would have been too much of a bog.

I think it's still available too isn't it? computer to computer??


That was old technology. It was kind of like talking on military
radios, you almost had to say 'over'.

Skype is just like talking in your living room, if you're using a
camera.

Go he http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/

Download it. Get a good camera. I use this Logitech:

http://tinyurl.com/nhvkwg

You can order it here for about $35 less than I paid for mine.

http://tinyurl.com/nl346z

Of course, if you get a camera, you'll have to give up sausage gravy
and biscuits and homefries.
--
John H

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