Sunday 14 November, 2004

Skype

Over the weekend I've been trying out the new P2P VoiP application Skype with my family. Yesterday I spoke with my parents, and this morning with my sister - and it all seems to "just work" as they claim (minus some microphone and headset problems... but can't really blame them for that). But most importantly, it's free which can't be said of phone calls to Finland (which are not only expensive but worse quality). Now I'm just waiting for Chu to get her computer problems sorted so we can do some serious chatting, as I miss my best friend and I miss our weekly conversations.

Time difference seems to bother communications less than I expected. It seems that most of my friends are up until small hours anyway, and that makes it morning and early afternoon for me. My parents want to talk to me in the evenings which means early morning for me - but as I wake up early anyway that's fine too. On the text message front it's slower - I get my text urges usually in the evenings which is very early morning in Finland... so Chu gets them mainly when she wakes up. I'm also suspicious of how many of my messages actually get trough, I'm suspecting some of them have already gotten lost.

Oh well. Need to make the best out of the situation we have - no doubt issues sort themselves out somehow.

Posted by kolibri at 14 November 20:17, 2004
Comments
# 1 - Chu (on November 16, 2004 11:43 AM):

Good news on the computer front: I was graciously given a long-term babysitting job for a CPU that's newer and smarter than my current one. This one understands the large hard drive you left me, and consequently I finally have disk space for more than just the OS, anti-virus and browser :). Yay!

My current estimate is I'll be able to look into this whole Spike business during the weekend - before that there are some deadlines to meet, a game to attend, OS to re-install etc.

Meanwhile, do drop me specs on the headset/microphone, if you have any suggestions.


# 2 - kolibri (on November 16, 2004 05:55 PM):

Good to hear :)

For headset - I'd pick up something that has both microphone and headphones all in one, it's better than using speakers. If you want wireless, Bluetooth is good - but not yet cheap.


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