Yeah, so it’s basically a commercial, but still gooder than hell … two geeks with 40 Nokia netbooks play a massive game of “Guess Who,” that game from your childhood where you try to identify the other person’s secret guy/gal. Only they play it with web sites rather than people.
I’ve had a computer of my own since I was a very young boy, and I’ve done a lot of fun things with those computers. But I don’t think I’ve ever had as much fun as I’ve had over the past few weeks playing a little game called “Plants vs. Zombies.” Read the rest of this entry »
As a working journalist, I spend a lot of time on the phone doing interviews – and a lot of time after the fact transcribing the important parts of those interviews.
I only wish I had discovered Skype earlier. You alpha-geeks already know about Skype, and probably have been using it to casually chat with everyone from close friends to perfect strangers for years now. I finally explored it recently, and now cannot live without it.
Skype is VoIP for the masses, an ultra-simple way to have a “telephone” conversation over the net. The economics of it is simply staggering: For $3 a month, you can make unlimited outbound calls to real telephone numbers – that is, the recipient doesn’t need to have Skype (if they do, the call is free). I recently made two international phone calls, and was astonished to see just how inexpensive it was – about 3 cents a minute to talk to London. Unreal.
Then, for an extra $20, you get the thing that makes it all so very, very worthwhile to a writer: Pamela Call Recorder. It does just what you think it does – gives you the one-click ability to record any Skype calls. Saves them as an mp3 file, time- and date-stamped. Suddenly, my humble little cassette recorder gets a lot less use.
You’ll need some sort of device to facilitate the actual voice part of the communication, and I strongly recommend these Logitech USB headphones. Plug them in and Skype recognizes them right away – dial, and have a hands-free conversation with ease, freeing up your hands to take notes. This is as gooder than hell as it gets, my friends!
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