Have you heard of Pamela Pro from Pamela Systems? It enables the user to record skype calls and make podcasts out of them, without the need for extra hardware other than the pc. It has a free trial. The freeware version is a free skype ansaphone for the pc. I have no commercial interest in it just thought it might be useful info. If you use Pamela pro be aware it sets it automatically in recording/sound settings. You need to reset it if you want to listen to the radio or sound via your pc and then get it ready for pamela's use.
Siobhan Ramsey Sandbox Education -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pamela McLean Sent: 31 July 2005 19:56 To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] reporter's query on the use of skype Phil asked for experiences with Skype. CawdNet has used Skype in various situations - and has some photos of its use in Ago-Are. We agree it has great potential for people in the Diaspora to link home. When David Mutua and I visited the InfoCentre in Ago-Are last December (our first visit since the VSAT was installed there ) we took along a headset and installed Skype. People were amazed to see us talking with friends in the UK. In a way it was even more amazing when we used Skype for contacting our friends in urban areas in Nigeria - using Skype to phone. Ago-Are is in a rural area and there are no phone networks for miles around. It had never before been possible to contact someone in Ibadan, from Ago-Are, to confirm arrangement for a planned visit to Ago-Are. The various friends in Ibadan found it quite hard to believe, at first, that we were actually speaking to them from Ago-Are. Word went round quickly - and the next morning the Oba (the local hereditary ruler) came to the InfoCentre to phone his daughter in Lagos. David is based at Fantsuam Foundation in Kafanchan now - which is another place with no telephones - and he uses Skype sometimes from there. Pam Pamela McLean CawdNet convenor [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cawd.net and click on CawdNet Phil Shapiro wrote: >hi everyone - > > yesterday i received a query from a reporter interested in writing an >article about the uses of skype. here's the query: > > A newspaper reporter is looking to do a story about community groups >that >have used skype and similar such technology to allow immigrants to call >home for free (or at rates far cheaper than previously possible). >Additionally, if there are non-profits which previously paid high phone >rates to keep in touch with their institutional partners abroad but are now >calling for free using p2p technology, this reporter would also like to >hear about it. Ideally, the reporter would like to find immigrant groups or >non-profit organizations in NY city, but this is not requisite. Any and all >leads welcome. > > if you have some stories to share on this topic, thanks for briefly >describing them in an email to me. i'll forward them on to the >reporter. > > - phil > > > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
