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\"\"How do you close the gap between a Grandmother and her Granddaughter?<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you close the gap between the Chicago suburbs and the west coast of Florida?<\/p>\n

In a word: Skype<\/a><\/p>\n

My Mom is a snowbird. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a snowbird typically is a person of retired age who splits their time between their hometown in the northern regions of our country and some place nice and warm. When the snow flies, so do they!<\/p>\n

She loves to travel and golf, but she misses my daughter. Enter the new craze sweeping retirement communities; some of her friends in Florida have been using Skype for a while. One day, my mom said to me, \u201cWe\u2019re getting a new computer\u00a0with a camera built in so we can Skype.\u201d *<\/p>\n

Wha?<\/p>\n

My mom has to call me twice a day to figure out how to work my TV when she is home watching my daughter. You mean to tell me this lady is going to learn how to Skype?!<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, my friends use it to see their grandkids and read books to them and it\u2019s free!\u201d<\/p>\n

I told my wife and we both had a good laugh. Two weeks ago, I downloaded the software. I had never used it before and didn\u2019t know what to think. Some of my clients used it to call me and it was a lot of, \u201cCan you hear me Alan? I want to buy another external hard drive. I\u2019m using Skype to call -\u201d Then…. silence.<\/p>\n

Well, they must have improved the service over the past year, because once my mom had it up and running, we did our first video call. I was blown away.<\/p>\n

Surely this can\u2019t be free, but it is! If you are using it to call other Skype users, the service is completely free. To place a call to landlines and cell phones, you pay a small fee.<\/p>\n

It was so great to talk to and see my Mom. We did a fifteen-minute video call and my daughter got to see her Grams. My mom was able to show her things and see her reaction. It was one of the best things I used my MacBook Pro for since I installed my recipe software.<\/p>\n

Now my daughter is bridging the gap between her Grams and technology and it\u2019s pretty amazing to witness. The other night, my wife and I were talking about our plans for the weekend over dinner. I said, \u201cMaybe Sunday afternoon we can Skype my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suddenly, my three year old daughter\u2019s little voice piped up from across the table with, \u201cWho\u2019s gonna\u2019 Skype us?\u201d<\/p>\n

*Editor’s Note:<\/strong> OWC Carries a number of Skype-compatible cameras and microphones<\/a>, so you can continue to use the computer you already have. That way you save money on two fronts: saving on phone calls with Skype, and saving on upgrades with OWC!<\/p>\n

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OWC has no affiliation with this software and receives no benefit related to this support (other than a benefit we all share in the continued support of these applications). If you appreciate the function or functionality this software offers, we encourage you to support the authors.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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