Lunamania: Fun w/Skype

I recently joined Skype and wanted to see if I could untether myself from the computer by connecting via the bluetooth headset for my cellphone.

A small gripe-- Skype is cool, free technology, but I did not appreciate the lack of tech support for this process. Rather than have a striaght forward walk-through, a search for "headset bluetooth" points to a page with an array of new products and suggests users should buy special "skype enabled" computer headsets.

A little searching yielded this Skype Journal: Bluetooth & Skype, a simple and helpful resource that had me connected via bluetooth in about 3 minutes.

If you don't have a bluetooth enabled computer/laptop, you will need a "dongle." Not to be mistaken with a dingle. It's a little USB device that allows your computer to connect to a bluetooth device. They are about $15-20, you can probably get them for less online.

Once connected, I noticed the sound quality is a diminished, but it should be fine for normal converasations.