TABLE OF CONTENTS The most obvious mobile use for Skype is while using your laptop. Many of us have laptops issued to us for work or have our own personal laptops so we can surf the Net while we sit on our porches looking at the trees and sipping a latte.
We discussed in a previous chapter why you would want to set up two accounts, and in Chapter 9 we discussed how to use Skype without sitting at your computer. So you can either use the same primary Skype account for both your laptop and your home computer, or you can use a different account for your laptop. One of the reasons you would want to use multiple accounts is so that people will know where you are and where to leave you a message or contact you. Think of Skype as being just like a cell phone and your home telephone one of them is for your home and one of them allows you to be mobile.
As I discussed in Chapter 9, if you Skype me at home and I don t answer, you will get my home answering machine. Then if you still wanted to reach me and I was online, you would call my other Skype account. Since Skype automatically changes the status to Away and Not Available, you would know when I am not at home, and when you saw my video.calls Skype contact come online, you would know I am on my laptop...
