The International Connection

18th December 2007

The International Connection

Do you have a family member traveling or living in another country? It’s so hard to not be able to just pick up the telephone and call them whenever you want to. Well, you can, but it would sure be an awfully expensive phone bill. It would be even more expensive if you made the call from your cell phone.

Now, we no longer have landlines in our home, we rely solely on our cell phones. International calling can be extremely expensive and even more so if you’re using a cell phone. There is a fix to this problem, I’m signing up for Mobile Talk by Packet8. It’s a service that utilizes the internet and voiceover IP (VoIP)technology to provide high quality digital International cell phone calls from the U.S. at a low cost. Plus, there are no connection fees. We can save up to 90% on International cell phone calls, I think that will certainly provide me peace of mind the next time I need to reach a family member or anyone else traveling overseas.

I’m so excited about Mobile Talk by Packet 8 that I’m submitting the following video into a contest they’re having. I hope you like the video and will go to the contest page to vote for me!

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1 On December 19th, 2007, Heather in Beautiful British Columbia said:

Ha - wasn’t this a fun video to make! I think we’re all winners already but it would be nice to win a prize too. Thanks for visiting - and commenting.

posted on December 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

2 On December 19th, 2007, lynne said:

Heather - I love doing videos! Mine are usually more creative than this one because my daughter helps me with a script. She was at school when I did this one, so not as creative as I would’ve liked, but fun none the less! Thanks for visiting.

posted on December 19th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

3 On December 20th, 2007, Mrs. Mecomber said:

So professional! How did you get the screen to morph like that? I would love to learn more about video editing. I’ve gotta win that Apple MacBook first, though…

Nice job. I’m jealous of your husband. I can only travel in New York.

Mrs. Mecomber’s last blog post..Swedish Chef Needs To Phone Home

posted on December 20th, 2007 at 11:02 pm

4 On December 21st, 2007, lynne said:

Mrs. Mecomber - Thanks! My daughter usually helps with write my scripts, she’s so much more creative than I am, but, she was at school, so I was on my own. The video transitions are in Windows Movie Maker. I just click and insert. Very easy.

posted on December 21st, 2007 at 10:26 am

5 On December 21st, 2007, Mrs. Mecomber said:

I’ll have to check Windows Movie Maker more thoroughly. I used it to mix the two videos into the Packet8 one, but YouTube would not accept it. So I had to use YouTube’s remixer.

I’m brand new at videos. We don’t even have a digital camcorder.. I use my digital camera. My little laptop processor would probably faint on me, anyway. But you’ve given some ideas. Thanks.
Mrs. Mecomber’s last blog post..Swedish Chef Needs To Phone Home

posted on December 21st, 2007 at 10:37 am

6 On December 21st, 2007, lynne said:

One thing I learned about Movie Maker is that I have to click “save to computer” and then I can make sure that the file size will be no more than 15mb, the maximum for YouTube. This also puts it into a wmv file that YouTube will accept.
If you save it to Movie Maker it is in a different format and YouTube won’t accept it. I learned this the hard way!

posted on December 21st, 2007 at 10:57 am

7 On February 23rd, 2008, Beautiful British Columbia » Ready, Set, VOTE! said: