Phone
With Claudia being one year old I have been prompted to pursue the video phone options so Claudia can view her relatives who are living far away. We use her blog which has worked great. But the opportunity for face-to-face contact for free is a great use of broadband.
So far we have experimented with skype and yahoo
Skype: Works well and you can call computer to computer anywhere in the world for free. You can have unlimited calling from your computer to any phone for $14.95 for the year (we called mom and it worked great). We tried it and it works and sounds pretty good.
Yahoo Messenger: This is also free from computer to computer. We havent set up for computer to phone because skype is much cheaper. We think this is easier for computer to computer. We hooked up a webcam and it works real well. You do feel like the person is in the room with you.
So I will keep you updated on our progress. We currently spend a lot of money for telephone service. If we can make it free AND have it be video that can be a fairly revolutionary change.
