To Skype with Love …

The most wonderful thing has happened! Well, it’s wonderful when you are a techno geek like me with a hubby who travels …

My husband finally has a laptop that he can take on these long, round-the-world trips to Australia (he is currently on his 4th trip around the world since January 1, 2009). The difference is ... he's discovered SKYPE!

I'm sure you've heard of Skype the video phone call made from your computer … a FREE video call from your computer. Keyword being FREE ... especially since international cell phone calls are quite expensive!

Now I’ve held business conferences using skype before and it is especially wonderful when we are hoding the conference between multiple time zones - Germany, France, and various zones here int the USA. But this time …

This time ….

It was my hubby.

• We cooked dinner together
• My daughter got to show him her muscles
• I ‘gave him a cookie’ (showed him the cookies my daughter made)
  
• He showed the wave pool outside the hotel – which my son loved!
• We all got to “hug” him (or pretend we did)
  

We are not a conventional family. In fact, our motto is “it’s not just a marriage, it’s an adventure”. So this form of communication fits right in!

So I realize this little story isn't about business or websites ... but I wanted to share it with you because I DO LOVE MY GADGETS!

If you don't have Skype, perhaps you should download it FREE and try it for your next business conference call. It will change the way you work - and play.

Look me up. My Skype handle is "flyingchangewebs".

Love Ya Honey!

Yahoo Mail & Firefox

I was recently informed by a client using Yahoo Mail with Firefox on a PC that he was unable to link to send an email from my contact page link. I use both a PC running IE 7 and Firefox and a Mac running Firefox and Safari with email clients outlook, entourage, and mail. I was unable to recreate the problem he was having, so the problem only seems to apply to the Yahoo Mail and Firefox on PC combination.

I pride myself in looking after my clients, so I found the following general information about using Yahoo Mail and Firefox on the PC:

• There has been a long list of problems in the last 2 years with this combination.
• The troubles have ranged from error messages saying "Yahoo Mail doesn't support your browser" to not opening an existing email link at all. (This is what happened to my client.)
• Unable to send links within emails.
• Email not sending at all.
• Inbox not loading completely.
  

The recommended fix is a plug-in for Firefox. There are also some Yahoo Mail setting that may help. I don't use Yahoo mail - so I am providing this information just in case you run into any problems and need the fix.

If you have your own website, you may consider switching all your email to the personal email account - like you@yourdomain.com and use a mail client like outlook, thunderbird, or even webmail to access your email.

Hope this helps anyone who may have this problem.