Wow App is taking the world by storm

There might be a bit of rain today, not to worry, but if you are tired of spending money on long distance phone calls, there is another alternative.

https://www.wowapp.com

This is a new telecommunications app that you can use on your smartphone or on your computer.
You can do video calls and conference calls for free, and there are low rates to mobile phones or landlines too.

You can earn money when you share your link, or and this is the great part, you can choose to donate your earnings to charity!

so go to the link and sign up for free calls to anywhere in the world!  I have been using this app for about a month and if Skype goes down, now we have another alternative!

Happy calling!

https://www.wowapp.com

Free Skype Recorder - Review

I have been using Skype for a long time, and sometimes my English students want to have a recording of their lesson so that they can listen to it again.  A long time ago, when I was learning Hebrew, I tried to record the Hebrew lessons, and at the time there were no smartphones.  So I bought many different kinds of recorders, tape, with internal memory, but nothing really worked.  I think that because of this hardship, it took me much longer to learn Hebrew than it would be nowadays.

So, when I learned about this FREE software that can record a Skype conversation, I was very excited for my students.  If your software is up-to-date, it will record your conversation and store it as a MP3 file on your computer.  You can specify where you want the file. You can save them on your computer or send them via e-mail.  The files are small, but even so, I delete them after a while when I am sure that my students have them.

https://mp3skyperecorder.com

It works well with the Skype program that you download.  It is very useful and I recommend that it you need to record your Skype calls, that you use this program! 

New Skype Web app- Software Review

Most of my working life nowadays is on-line teaching. You can find me here:
 http://www.live-english.net/  I have been teaching on-line usually on Skype since the year of 2009, so I have seen many versions of Skype.   So since the program that I downloaded from Skype has not been working for the past two days, I have been using the web app for Skype.

There are some pros and cons, Well, in my humble opinion, mostly cons.  Yes, the picture, sound and video is very clear, but you can't have the video and the sms on the screen at the same time. There is no way to do "Share Screen"

You log on from this link:
https://login.skype.com/login?client_id=578134&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.skype.com

The updated sounds for calling is nice, but it would be better if we could get the program that is downloaded on the computer to work.  It just won't boot up.   Just keep going round and round, rather boring to see after an hour, don't you think?

Another point to add, I have been on this program for a few days, and now it asked me to reinstall the plug-in AGAIN!  After I reinstalled it, the web Skype did work. .  .

And my favorite companion program, Free Skype Recorder, (come and take a look at the next post which is going up tomorrow morning) won't work with this Web Skype either.

Maybe the web version is for people who don't need to use files at the same time as speaking, but frankly it doesn't work for me.

Bring back the Skype program.  Please!!!!!!!

Rachael Alice Orbach

If you have any comments, add them in the comment box below.  What do you think of the "new" Skype?