Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Talking to Peter & Roni

Hey, all. This is a quick note to let you know that Roni and I are available via Skype pretty much all the time when we are home. Our joint username is 'schmiedeskiwis' and you should be able to reach us pretty much as reliably as via telephone.

For those of you who don't know about Skype, it is a piece of software that allows you to place internet telephone calls for free. The quality is generally on par or superior to telephone, especially if you have broadband. Quality is acceptable even if you only have dial-up Internet access. Please run (don't walk) to http://www.skype.com and download it.

When you call here, please remember the time difference. Also, we haven't (yet) figured out a good way of accurately setting our status, so it may show us online/idle/whatever regardless of where we actually are. Suffice it to say that, if you ring and we're home, we'll answer. It's a lot like a regular telephone that way :-)

We may eventually switch over to a different internet based phone service, but until that time, Skype works very well.

2 comments:

Devin said...

What about iChat? I like using iChat's audio. that's cool.

Peter said...

Well, Devin. iChat audio doesn't work for everyone, and you're never signed into iChat! But we'd love to talk to you some time. :-)