Amy’s parents moved to Chicago. Well, the moved to Virginia, then Maryland and now Chicago. Its a good reason to travel, but its not a good thing when the little one’s want to talk to grammy sue and taco breezy. We’d been doing it on the phone, but that only goes for so long. This past Christmas, we decided to invest in a QuickCam for both families and we set up some Skype accounts so that we could talk to each other via the phone for free!

Skype has been around for a while and is definately the leader in VoIP services for computer to computer and their free Skype to Skype chat is really good. In fact, its so good that when the girls are on the line with their grandparents, Cookie (grammy’s dog) starts running around looking for G & E. I’ve been pretty impressed with the ease of use of skype too. We installed the web cam, and were up and running with the software in no time.

Its been a nice thing as whenever the girls want to see their grandparents we just call them up on the phone (to make sure they’re available) and then log in to Skype. The girls love it and so do the grandparents. If you travel a lot and need a way to keep in touch with your family, or you need a good way to see loved ones separated by distance (or hell, even local) this is definitely the easiest solution (and its cheaper than a plane ticket!).

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Happy Birthday to Us!! Two years ago today we uploaded our first torrent (slax) to the site and we haven’t stopped since. In case you were wondering, we’re off to a good start this year, in January alone we had over 109,000 unique visitors to the site. That is absolutely AMAZING!! We want to thank everyone who contributes to the site…

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