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Tip-Of-The-Week for August 28, 2009

"Now You Can See What You Have Been Hearing"

Everyone is pretty accustomed to free long distance, so you might wonder how a product like Skype still has appeal.

But with so many families separated by one thing or another anyway, now that many of you may be sending kids off to college is a good time to mention that Skype also does a great job of VIDEO calling - all for free.

(Skype to Skype calls are free; calling to a landline is cheap but not free. International calls are VERY reasonable with Skype to.)

You can put each other in your Skype contact list and set it to notify you when a person is online. Then simply make the call with a webcam on each end and you have a video call.

Chances are your student has a laptop with a built in webcam (keep a piece of black tape over it when not in use) and if you don't have a webcam, it's very easy and inexpensive to get one that will plug into a USB port on your PC.

You can take a look a some great webcams here.(I like Logitech, but Microsoft has some good ones too).

With video, it's a little more like being there. Fantastic especially to see your Armed Services family member or friend you haven't seen in way too long, and also to check up on sonny's appearance now that he is away at college.

If you have never used Skype, maybe now is the time.

Clean up the grill for one last Summer blast and call me over when it's time to eat!

Until next time...

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