Sundays Without Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 151 - Makeup and Beauty Blog

Tabs for Skype

And so what's Tabs been up to while I've been gettin' my briefing on? He'south been holding down the fort back at MBB headquarters with the help of a temp (aka a petsitter).

He nonetheless insists on twice daily meetings, though, and thanks to engineering science, it'south totally possible.

Nosotros use Skype set upwardly as a pet cam. I've talked about it a couple times earlier. It works similar this: I have Skype installed and running on my computer at abode using one account, and set it to automatically answer video calls that I make from a second account using a laptop. That's it, and at present that Skype has an iPhone app, we can even teleconference literally from the road (it works over Wi-Fi or 3G).

I was at the pool today when he called with an "emergency." He needed to become to yoga, and the car service was running tardily. Information technology savage to me to "make information technology work."

But seriously, technology has revolutionized the assistant-true cat relationship. Using a combination of Log Me In, Skype, iTunes, iPhones and computers, nosotros're able to continue working with each other remotely.

My iPhone screen

Cat/Blogger Road Warrior Tech Tools

Log Me In: Information technology lets me admission and control my figurer at dwelling. I employ it to change channels in iTunes for Tabs because he can simply listen to techno for so long (he also fancies country music).

Skype: I accept it set to automatically answer video calls placed from a 2nd business relationship (because Tabs is a diva and won't answer the calls himself). Now that at that place'south also an iPhone app that works over Wi-Fi or 3G, Tabs can attain me anywhere there's a cell phone point.

iTunes: Tabs listens to free iTunes radio stations pretty much all solar day long while I'm away, but I remote access the computer in the evenings to turn off the music while he sleeps.

iPhones: Our smartphone of option. Tabs is a stickler for pattern and has insisted on Apple products always since he gave up his Blackberry.

Computers: Skype, Log Me In and iTunes are all available for both Windows PCs and MACs. The mobile Skype and Log Me In apps are also available for Android phones (Log Me In Ignition and Skype for Android).

Other Apps: Tabs and I as well utilise a few other iPhone apps for piece of work. PS Express (a simplified version of Photoshop for adjusting lighting, dissimilarity and applying a few basic filters to pics), the Cat-O-Matic (has a agglomeration of prerecorded cat meow sounds that drive cats crazy; FUN!), Camera Genius (an app for the iPhone'south built-in camera that lets you trigger the shutter by tapping anywhere on the screen), the official WordPress app for remote blogging, and another remote blogging app called BlogPress, which I employ every bit a fallback when the WordPress app gets on my nerves.

What does Tabs actually practise while I'1000 away? Well, he stress eats, partakes of the catnip plants that are placed throughout the house, watches birds through the windows, plays with the petsitter, does some modeling, and also blogs (of course). 🙂