Posted on June 2nd, 2012 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Good news for chatty Chucks and Cathys: Sony’s PlayStation Vita does free Skype video chats. It also takes incoming calls during a game. Studies show that gamers use their machines as much for social reasons as for games. Owners of the older Playstation and the “PSP” (PlayStation Portable), can’t do video calls because the PSP has no built-in camera.
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Posted on December 19th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Here’s how to call your friends from the airport without using any cellphone minutes or searching for a payphone. Skype is offering an hour of free WiFi connectivity from December 21 through the 27th.
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Posted on August 12th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
GPhangouts.com has public places where you can hang out with others on Google Plus in a group video chat. We met a travel writer there, some business types and a guy speaking German. Some chats will have started by the time you get there, others are scheduled for the next day or a few hours later. Requires a Google Plus account to hang out. (You can request an invite at plus.google.com.)
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Posted on August 2nd, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Face to face video calling on the iPad 2 just got a whole lot easier with the new Skype app for the iPad. Play the video or go here for more details.
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Posted on April 25th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Skype is the most well-known service for making cheap or free phone calls over the Internet. But Line2, a $10-$15 a month service from Line2.com, made us feel like big shots.
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Posted on November 5th, 2010 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Making free video conferencing calls on Skype used to be annoying, because you couldn’t include Mac users in your group. Now Skype has released a version that corrects that. Get everybody in the picture. The new version, Skype for Mac 5.0, has a mini toolbar that sits atop any photos, web pages or documents you have open. It lets you do instant messaging offline. Finally, Skype has a new contest: The prize is a $1,500 gift certificate at the Apple store. Visit bit.ly/dm6AAe to enter. More info on video conference calls at the Skype blog.
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Posted on October 14th, 2010 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Call your Facebook friends from within Skype, with the new version 5.0.
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Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
VonageMobil lets you call Facebook friends from your smartphone.
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Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Check email and do other tasks during your Skype calls.
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Our friend Margie is stuck in France, because of the volcanic ash. Hopefully, she can connect to a WiFi hotspot, but a lot of these aren’t free. You have to get out a credit card and fiddle with numbers. Skype is offering free connections this week through a feature called “Skype Access.” You can connect to the Internet in over 100,000 hotspots around the world starting today through Friday, April 23 — including most international airports. That’s a stingy offer, but it’s a good way to try out Skype Access, which is a new feature that lets anyone pay for WiFi access using Skype credit, which you buy in advance at Skype.com. Just select an available public access WiFi network from [...]
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