Tag: skype
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Top 10 From The Last 500 Fat Ones
Last Week, Steph published the 500th post from on our 2FatDads site, a site he and I created far too long ago. Over the years we invited Ben, Eric and Steve to join us; not only writing some pretty awesome tech reviews and rants but also in creating the DadCast which will be resuming it’s…
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Skype for Mac 5.0 Goes Gold, Only Deserves Bronze
My biggest complaint is that it’s still too big and adding users to a call is still a bit of a dark art. Skype also seems to be in a real hurry to ditch audio calls in favour of premium video conference calls which just seem to make everyone involved feel awkward. The reality is…
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DadCast Episode 32 • In Loudest Din or Hush Profound
Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studio of Valois Bay… In part two of the last week’s show the remaining Dads continue to struggle with Ben’s Skype issue while dissecting the Green Lantern trailer and giving Francois a crash course in The Green Lantern Corp lore. We also look at the the Cars 2 trailer, Mater’s…
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The Skypeasaurus is still a Gold Standard
Equipment – The Official TWiT Wiki: “Skypeasaurus: used for Skype calls beginning 3/7/2009. Four Acer V173b monitors attached to four separate Windows PCs running Synergy KM sharing software. The motherboards (Intel BOXD945GCLF2 945GC ATOM330) on these machines have S-video out built into their onboard video adapters; each goes to a separate video input on the…
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FaceTime on the Desktop? Yes Please!
FaceTime Set to Come to Mac OS X and Windows?: “To begin, iLife ’11, which we announced this summer (with the disappearance of iDVD) , could finally come out very very soon. In addition, it is rumored that Apple is preparing to leave FaceTime for Mac and PC, the Mac version coming to settle down…
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Bleeding Edge is Sometimes a Bloody Fail
HOW TO START EATING HEALTHY Have you ever tried a trendy diet, only to find you’re not seeing results? Or you lose some weight at the beginning of your diet, but then gain it all back shortly after? Almost half of all Americans have attempted to lose weight in the past year – but many gain it…
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The DadCast Episode 7 – The Search for Schultzter
Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Season 2 is in full swing and we’re still looking for The Schultzter. This week the Dads explore HDTV, PVRs, Blue Ray and up scaling DVDs. We run down some of the current TV shows we’ve been watching, and superficially review some of the summer flicks…
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The DadCast Episode 6 – Tsunami Mon Ami!
Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studio of Valois Bay… The Dads are all back from a summer of parenting, projects and travel. Join us in this episode 7 for the start of our second season as we try to figure out if Google’s Wave is nothing more than a ripple in the pond, one of…