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kman wrote:Anyone ever download and use the free SKYPE? All comments/advice welcome. I have Windows Vista. We want to try and Skype my niece in Indiana today.

I dont but can say my whole extended family uses it. They are love it and keep trying to get me to sign up. My X and my son's mother and step dad live in Bahrain on a civilian contract for the US Navy. It works great for them even over there!Its worth a shot and safe as far as they tell me.

by kman Today at 7:06

Anyone ever download and use the free SKYPE? All comments/advice welcome. I have Windows Vista. We want to try and Skype my niece in Indiana today.

I have a friend who use's it....works fine....several options as to payment plan
1) free limited to PC to PC (i think)
2) for a few dollars you can call to regular phone and they can call you...
3) need at least some headphone/microphone setup...anywhere from
a few bucks on up...(about 10-15$ for decent setup from best buy type store)

Anybody that has PC issues can post and or search this forum....

They are VERY knowledgable, quick to respond and cover a wide variety of common and not-so-common problems all FREE

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/

elvis44102 wrote:Anybody that has PC issues can post and or search this forum....

They are VERY knowledgable, quick to respond and cover a wide variety of common and not-so-common problems all FREE

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Thx E I saved it and will report back. Most of my questions are normal but I nat have a few challenges!

by booniebeast
""Thx E I saved it and will report back. Most of my questions are normal but I nat have a few challenges!""

Would have posted the link sooner...but forgot about it, they have some of the same members there as they did a few years back..
when I was a frequent poster...

Nowdays i just do a search on the problem if its along drawn out sentence you can find really good info just doing a simple google search...

elvis44102 wrote:by kman Today at 7:06

Anyone ever download and use the free SKYPE? All comments/advice welcome. I have Windows Vista. We want to try and Skype my niece in Indiana today.

I have a friend who use's it....works fine....several options as to payment plan
1) free limited to PC to PC (i think)
2) for a few dollars you can call to regular phone and they can call you...
3) need at least some headphone/microphone setup...anywhere from
a few bucks on up...(about 10-15$ for decent setup from best buy type store)

thank you - didn't do it yet - but will try it out soon.

kman wrote:

elvis44102 wrote:by kman Today at 7:06

Anyone ever download and use the free SKYPE? All comments/advice welcome. I have Windows Vista. We want to try and Skype my niece in Indiana today.

I have a friend who use's it....works fine....several options as to payment plan
1) free limited to PC to PC (i think)
2) for a few dollars you can call to regular phone and they can call you...
3) need at least some headphone/microphone setup...anywhere from
a few bucks on up...(about 10-15$ for decent setup from best buy type store)

thank you - didn't do it yet - but will try it out soon.

Hey I got 2 sets of headphones/microphones to use. Not high end but if you van hear OK, they will work. PM me your address if you decide to use it and I'll send you 1 set for free. In case you are wondering, I have never used either set, came with a school web cam set up but I never used either one so they are "clean"

How do I attach a .JPG file? Anyone?

kman wrote:How do I attach a .JPG file? Anyone?

Attach a .jpg file to what?

To a post or can you just post a .JPG file?

put the mouse pointer over the icons on top of the posting window...
one of them says host an image (about in the middle) click on it...
Click on the browse button (browse your PC) to select the image to host
Copy and paste the code, put the code into the post window and your done.
this method uploads an image file from your PC to a server on the internet thats specificly there to host image files.

The code you place in the posting window then links to that server

elvis44102 wrote:put the mouse pointer over the icons on top of the posting window...
one of them says host an image (about in the middle) click on it...
Click on the browse button (browse your PC) to select the image to host
Copy and paste the code, put the code into the post window and your done.
this method uploads an image file from your PC to a server on the internet thats specificly there to host image files.

The code you place in the posting window then links to that server

Thank you - your posts sound like my IT buddy from my last job - he was always at my desk helping me out.

elvis44102 wrote:put the mouse pointer over the icons on top of the posting window...
one of them says host an image (about in the middle) click on it...
Click on the browse button (browse your PC) to select the image to host
Copy and paste the code, put the code into the post window and your done.
this method uploads an image file from your PC to a server on the internet thats specificly there to host image files.

The code you place in the posting window then links to that server

Host an Image (to get a photo from your computer) isn't working right now. I've had this problem before. Should be working again soon.

I usually use a photo from google images. When you find a photo in google images you like (there are millions of them) then click on full size. Copy the link and then go back to your post. Click on "image" Paste the link and press OK. DONE!