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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 11:48 am Post subject: This Skype malarkey
I need to start using Skype at work, I'm guessing I just need a USB handset and a skype account, is there more to it?

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 11:49 am Post subject:
No. That's about it.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 11:50 am Post subject:
Ta

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 11:56 am Post subject:
A simple mic will do it, I use a webcam instead of handset. Handset would be better though.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 11:58 am Post subject:
And a dressing gown if you are going to be using it with a camera.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 11:58 am Post subject:

Fee wrote:

use a webcam instead of handset.

That would lend a new sense of terror to being phoned by tahir.

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 12:00 pm Post subject:
I use it with a cheap Aldi webcam and it works perfectly. Sometimes it's kinder not to have the video option running though!

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 12:02 pm Post subject:

Gervase wrote:

I use it with a cheap Aldi webcam and it works perfectly. Sometimes it's kinder not to have the video option running though!

You're not wrong, though it's ok in the colder weather

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 12:02 pm Post subject:
Deffo not going for the webcam option, el local PC shoppo no gotto, will have to toddle off to PC World

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 12:15 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

And a dressing gown if you are going to be using it with a camera.

Noel Coward. Sophisticated.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 12:17 pm Post subject:
Perhaps you could wear a silk smoking jacket, Tahir?

Truffle

Joined: 07 Feb 2006
Posts: 526

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 12:17 pm Post subject:
skype is brilliant, until your connection speed drops- which is whenever it rains here?!!? We find a normal computer mic and headphones to be the best connection. Good luck! truffle

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 8:34 pm Post subject:
i have used it successfully to attend meetings in northern ireland while sitting in my living room here in wales... i use a headset with a mic and it works a treat....

Calli

Joined: 13 Mar 2009
Posts: 626
Location: Galway

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 09 10:31 pm Post subject:
Have you tried the mobile skype - I have lost my mobile and am desperate to find it. Yes have looked everywhere.... Oh and screen sharing on skype for showing and tutoring - very very cool!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Dec 04, 09 11:52 am Post subject:
Got me handset, all fine ta.

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