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Personal Videoconferencing Solutions for Windows Remember, the goal of this chapter is to get you going with something that works and is cost effective. Because many of these solutions are free, we recommend that you select one of the free solutions to start; then you can evaluate other solutions depending on your needs. ■ SightSpeed (Windows and Mac)—Free with additional features for a cost ■ Microsoft MSN Messenger (Windows only)—Free ■ Skype 2.0 (Currently Windows only, but others are coming)—Free SightSpeed 4.5 is probably the best-designed video call software available and is available for both Windows and Mac OS X so you can call anyone using either operating system. MSN Messenger 7.5 is also a good solution, but it can have issues with audio; if you have this issue, use it in conjunction with Skype for the audio portion. Skype has superb audio quality, so using it with MSN Messenger is a complementary solution. Skype 2.0 added video to their already great voice solution for Windows, which gives us another video call solution to consider. However, the size of the sender's video screen, which is roughly one-inch wide and three-fourths of an inch tall is too small to be prac- tical, because you cannot tell if you are in focus or if anything you hold up is readable by the other person in your video call. Of course, if you want to know more about Skype, visit my Web site, www.SkypeTips.com, and pick up a copy of my other book, Skype Me! So what do we recommend? Well, all three, of course! They do not interfere with one another and since they're all free, why not use them? 成人社区

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