{"id":107,"date":"2007-02-20T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveandyvonne.com\/davintosh\/?p=107"},"modified":"2007-02-20T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T05:22:20","slug":"its-a-small-world-and-getting-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/20\/its-a-small-world-and-getting-smaller\/computers\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Small World (and getting smaller)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/skype.com\" title=\"Skype.com\">Skype<\/a>, and am really, really impressed with how that works, and it&#8217;s potential. Skype has been around for a while, but not many people know about it or what it can do for them. It&#8217;s an Internet-based telephone system that offers free worldwide computer-to-computer calls. That&#8217;s F*R*E*E!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a really great service, and I love the FREE part of it. Last weekend Yvonne talked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schotanus.com\">Thom &amp; Ellen Schotanus<\/a>, who are BGC missionaries in Cameroon. They are supported in part by our church, and we first met them face to face when we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveandyvonne.com\/cameroon\/default.html\">visited Cameroon<\/a> in 2004. And Yvonne was talking with him like he were on the other side of town. Of course, there&#8217;s the 7 hour time differential to deal with, but that&#8217;s not insurmountable.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week I was using Skype to chat with a guy in Australia, giving him some help in figuring out why an accellerator card I sent him wasn&#8217;t working. I was complaining about the below-zero (Farenheit) temps, and he was complaining about the 35 degree (Celsius) temps there. And it didn&#8217;t cost a dime.<\/p>\n<p>Between e-mail, Skype and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earth.google.com\">Google Earth<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maps.google.com\">Google Maps<\/a>), the world is getting smaller all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered Skype, and am really, really impressed with how that works, and it&#8217;s potential. Skype has been around for a while, but not many people know about it or what it can do for them. It&#8217;s an Internet-based telephone system that offers free worldwide computer-to-computer calls. That&#8217;s F*R*E*E! It&#8217;s a really great service, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}