5 Tips to Improving your Skype Life
28 Mar
I really do hate this posts title, makes it feel like I am “George of getrichsuperfast.com! In this post you will find 5 easy to follow secrets to bringing you millions of dollars within just the first week! Now just sign up for our e-mail newsletter, and getrichsuperfact.com will begin to spam your inbox with hundreds of messages a day on how to make millions within weeks! As well as some messages on where to get your credit card information stolen and get your computer hacked! that and much much more!”
Ok, so now for the real blog post =)
Everyone’s been there, they are in the middle of a heated debate with your friends, someone from your hate list, or some fellow podcasters and you are starting to make a point, and getting it through to them. When all of a sudden Skype crashes and your disconnected from the call.. don’t you hate that? I certainly do, that’s why I decided to write out some info on what you can do – to help avoid this.
1. Keep your e-mail closed! E-mails are like downloading files, they run in the background and take of precious memory, and download speed.
2. We all do it, while listening to the annoying person in the Skype call. We open up our web browsers and watch a few useless YouTube tutorials, created by some guy in his basement, while drunk. Don’t! Its just like e-mails, its slows your download speeds down a LOT! If hes really that annoying, then use the famous tool called *mute*.
3. I know, I know you are a geek and you keep 40 apps open at once. I do to! (join the club) but seriously, do you really need to have every single web development tool, programming app, graphic design program, along with two web browsers, all while uploading some files using FTP? Also do you really need to do a screencast of you and your friends audio level going up and down? Well yeah, you do. But try not to! :)
4. If your on a Mac use activity monitor to close down any applications running in the background. If your on that thing we call “Windows” sigh.. then use TaskManager and see if you cant close down a few apps without them going “Not Responding” or having a “Fatal Error!” or getting that fun blue screen, and cant forget a few drivers messing up, and having your LCD go wacky, and make you need to boot into SafeMode.
5. Use Ethernet! don’t use wireless. Especially if your recording a podcast. Using wireless would be what we in the bizz’ call “Pulling a Joey” (Joey is going to hate me.)
Notes:
- Joey, please send all hate mail directly to. ihatebrandon@brandonanderson.org (Whats sad, is the fact that – that is a real e-mail address.)
- getrichsuperfact.com – is a random domain I came up with, and I have no idea what it is.
- Leave some comments! Tell me what you do, to help your Skype Life.
- I dod nit edit this post! its 4 aM, ind I dint feewl like it. If your reaalyi upsset, emails thea bafoore stited emaiil addess’ss. Twanks!
- Brandon Anderson
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Some of us even don’t realize the importance of this information. What a pity.
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Interesting and informative. But will you write about this one more?
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Well written piece – will add you to my favourites :)