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Ask Slashdot: Simple, Cross-Platform Video Messaging?
DeathToBill writes: I spend a lot of time away from my kids (think months at a time) who are aged 3-8. I keep in touch with them by Skype, but the young ones are not really old enough to concentrate on it and we're often in quite different timezones, so it's not often it can be very spontaneous. We'd like to have some way that we can record short video messages of things we're doing and send them to each other. It needs to have an iPad app that is simple enough for a three-year-old to use with help and for a five-year-old to use without help; it needs to have an Android or web client, preferably one that doesn't require an Apple ID; it needs to be able to record a short video and send it to someone. As far as I can tell, iMessage requires Apple kit (there is an Android app but it sends all your messages through a server in China...) and Whatsapp works on iPhone but not iPad. What can you suggest?
If you get divorced, make it a top priority over career to stay in same town as the children. Phone and video is no substitution for your presence in their lives.
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I think someone else already mentioned it, but Skype allows you to record a video message. Why not use that? Read a book to your kids, tell a joke, etc.
"Contrarily the lookaside buffer might not be the panacea... "
Yea, FTP, rsync and SCP are all great fucking suggestions, and clearly things than can easily be taught to a 5 year old. They all work great on an iPad too. "Use HTTP" is probably the best suggestion, and definitely a complete solution to his problem. Just other day my mom wanted to send a video file to my nephew, and she asked me how to do it and I said "Hey mom, use HTTP" and she was like "Oh, great, thank you, all my problems are solved now".
It needs to have an iPad app that is simple enough for a three-year-old to use with help and for a five-year-old to use without help;
Ask the state to help. After all, if you're leaving a three year old with a five year old, the state will get involved at some point soon.
Or, if I misinterpreted and there's some sort of adult supervision, have the adult press the damn icon on your iPad.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
No Linux app? That's short slighted of them, 2016 will be the Year of the Linux Desktop.