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Phone Call from the Internets

We spent only a short amount of time puzzling over the best way to stay in contact while I'm over in China before taking brother-in-law Dan's advice and installing Skype.

I'll have a laptop. The hotel will have internet conectivity. No brainer. It took about fifteen minutes total to install.

I just tested it out on my dad with no problems. Kari says I sound a little tin-canny, but as long as I don't try tapping the keyboard while talking, the internal microphone works just fine. This is a relief: after I discovered that the iBook does not have a microphone input jack, I was dreading having to invest in and lug around yet another gadget (a USB audio input device).

$0.03/minute from China, woohoo!