Yak yak yak…
This entry was posted on March 24, 2008
Sometimes I’m a really talkative person and sometimes I’m a really shy person. I’ve always tended to be more of a listener than a talker, and other times I’ll get a bit stroppy if I don’t think people are listening to me. I may not talk much, but when I do talk, I like to feel that I’m being listened to.
When talking on IM I have a bad habit of just replying to people with a single emoticon. This has gained me the nickname of “emoticonaely” (thanks Aisling), and my overuse of emoticons instead of words has become somewhat of an “in joke” amongst the people in my buddy list.
When communicating via text message (which I don’t do nearly often enough) I never ever use “text talk”. Text talk makes me really angry. I’ve never had a problem fitting a complete message (complete with proper spelling and grammar) so I really don’t know why people “need 2 rsrt 2 txt tlk”. It’s not that quicker, and it’ll lead to much confusion on my part.
One thing I’ve always wanted to do more is talk to people on the computer. My laptop has a built-in microphone, and a built-in camera, and it would be a shame to waste those features in my laptop. However, I’ve never been able to work the microphone properly and the webcam stopped working a few weeks ago.
Cue Maren stepping in! After a bit of pansying about trying to get a windows computer working (because her Mac OS hates my Vista) she finally helped me to set up a remote desktop connection. It was very bizarre and a little unnerving to see someone else using my laptop. But, with her help I managed to get the webcam working.
Unfortunately, even Maren was stumped when it came to getting my mic working. So, I finally tried what people normally refuse to do - I went back to my laptop case and hunted out everything that came with the laptop when I first got it. I found a disc titled “utilities”, stuck it in the computer, and lo and behold it contained all the drivers needed for my microphone.
That means I can now have video calls with my contacts on msn, and I can also finally use skype! However, I’ve found that my microphone doesn’t really pick up my voice unless I lean in really close to it. Anyone know anything about upping the volume when it’s already set to 100%?
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