I was a bit grumpy the other day at work.
I had just discovered Skype (I know I know… slow adopter) and wanted to get it on my work laptop so that I could communicate with my near and dear while spending weeks on the road and also because I can see it would be a useful tool for my work.
Anyway IT were a bit wary and fair enough, it’s their network.
As luck would have it I was given a webcam and headset and a nifty little set it is too as this laptop is a pretty basic model.
So the other night I plugged it all in and decided to try gmail video chat.
And guess what?
It actually worked!
And it was easy, and I didn’t need a special program.
Okay the quality isn’t as good as Skype but it’s good enough and I’m stoked.
So Google – thank you.
You have met my needs once again and I’m not above given credit where credit is due.
Tempted to use this myself… will test it in Karratha (or Hedland!)
I’ll give that one a go and see how it is…
Hope you;re having fun too! Looked like it in Broome… Cheers 😉