Skype

[Eric Hardy]

I have just found this discussion about Skype. A friend has it and he installed it onto my laptop as it has a built in webcam. I tried to get our son Mark interested, as he is in Canada, but he prefers to telephone. I now find the webcam had packed up anyway. I could still talk on it but with my deafness I have problems. I could use it if the webcam were repaired and subtitles were available  Mark usually gives Anthea all the news and she tells me later 

[ideasguy]

I'll send you a PM Eric

[roiphil]

I downloaded skype yesterday and in the evening had a real nice chat to george, i could see him but he could not see me as i dont have a webcam at present, anyway he showed me what he has been working on regarding bank genie and it is very impressive, on skype your first phone call to a landline to someone who has not got skype is free, so i phoned my mum via skype in the UK and the sound qualty coming out of my headphones was crystal clear, i am going to look at the price charges differene between skype and eircom and use the cheapest to phone the UK, it does not matter here as my phone package includes free calls to other irish landlines will have to check the mobile phone charges though

All said very impressed with skype, could not get my headphone mic to work at first, i had to go into control panel and re configure it in their, i have no idea why it  would not work the first time i tried it maybe because i have had it unplugged from pc for a couple of months, who knows but all good now.

[ideasguy]

Yes, it was a busy day on Skype yesterday Phil! Nice to have the chat.

I also had a "chirping" session with EricH
Anthea was assisting Eric so we said Hello.
I was just in from the garden so Eric and Anthea got the windswept look!

Looking forward to seeing you folk when you get your webcams operational

[roiphil]

just noticed on my contact page on my website that skype has some how integrated this (deleted phone number)


anyone wanting to make contact and they have skype simply clicks on it and makes the call or im

I can only assume it has done this because i entered website url into my skype profile, that i find is really good and usefull

[ideasguy]

Theres a lot of little surprises in Skype!

[roiphil]

There certainly is, once i can get into my site builder i need to edit the phone number as the one i have on my site is to my mobile, so i need to put landline number instead and that one should then be linked to skype

[Eric Hardy]

I also had a "chirping" session with EricH Looking forward to seeing you folk when you get your webcams operational

At long last our Canadian son has got Skype going. He is off later today to Africa for another month as a volunteer surgeon. Last time he went to Kenya and he did 55 operations in three weeks. It was great being able to have a long chat with him and see him at the same time. As George knows, I have been looking for my headphones. I have now found them. I wore them over my hearing aids and could hear what Mark was saying quite well. There is still a technical problem that George or someone else technically minded might be able to solve for me. I can see Anthea and me on the screen via our webcam. We could see Mark on the screen too. Unfortunately Mark could not see us and neither could George when we talked  . Is there some setting I don't know about?

[ideasguy]

I'm not familiar enough with the system yet to answer that question Eric.
Do this:
When you make a call,click Video Call button.
When you receive a call from anther contact, click Answer with Video.
We can try it again tomorrow if you wish. Football tonight

[ideasguy]

Toby (The Boss) is having big trouble getting Skype to work.
He has gone out and bought a spanking new webcam and headset and we cant get communications going.
When he makes a call to me, I pick up with Answer without Video
He can hear me. I cant hear him.
He types, I talk.
When either of us turn on Video, Skype turns his computer off.

Ive been researching the problem and found this:
http://forum.skype.com/lofiversion/index.php/t64507.html
Very interesting stuff, and out of that, Ive learned about how to get at a lot more information about my computer that I knew before. Try this (from that web page)
Click Start
Click Run
Type: dxdiag
Click OK
That utility gives you information about the DirectX version on your computer AND a LOT more.
Click on Save All Information button
It saves the info in a txt file
You can open it with Notepad and copy and paste info to report your version (I'm waiting on that from Toby) and also print it off for you records.
Was that helpful?

[3fren]

Its a fantastic tool George.

We use it in the office for triparte com. where the other party is in high phone bills area....
downside is, everyone is listening in.  Have not got into using the earphone.
Our office is an open concept.

Marvels of man's intelligence, thousand of miles, can see and hear.
 
 

[ideasguy]

It certainly is perfect for those conference calls Jessie. We as a family are now spread over four houses and two countries. We all chatted together a few times on Skype. It was like having them all home for a visit!

[ideasguy]

A momentous occasion!
Toby (Bossgard) and I had a 2-way conversation tonight!
We've tried numerous times before but the best we could do was Toby could hear me speaking, he typed replies with IM.
Once his headset was installed, we had lift off!
I also updated Skype to latest version of Skype.
The quality was excellent and there was absoutely no lag in the conversation. This technology is absolutely amazing, linking us from US to Ireland in this way.

Video is still a big problem.
Everytime I click Video, his computer reboots.
If anyone has suggestions on what could be wrong they would be very much appreciated.
It was lovely talking to you Toby!

[3fren]

Nice to link up George.

We could try out on one of  our Sat. afternoon, about 3 p.m., you should be
around 9a.m.

my Skype is : lolilososo123

[ideasguy]

Will do Jessie! I'd love to have a chat.
Sat will be fine.