蜜芽传媒

Irene uses Skype every single day while her husband's away. Dave is a businessman and he works away from home all around the world. Using Skype to speak to Dave in far flung places like Columbia, Dusseldorf and China means that she gets to physically see her husband every day, even when they're thousands of miles apart. This saves Irene hundreds of pounds in expensive long distance phone calls as everything is free.
Irene also Skypes her family in New Zealand so she can see how they're getting on and Irene also uses Skype to 'conference call' with her former work friends.

The company Irene worked for went into liquidation two years ago and Irene took voluntary redundancy. She had become close friends with the other two ladies in her team and really misses them now they're not at work. By using Skype; all three friends can chat at the same time at no cost and Irene feels it's like being back in the office.

Since redundancy, Irene has decided to 'make the most of every day' and advance her basic computing skills. At the age of 61 she decided to take up a multi-media computing course at college in Widness/Runcorn. Irene's completed a 'First steps to Photoshop', DTP and multimedia course so she can repair damaged old photos with her Photoshop skills and bring her holiday photos to life by making DVDs of the pictures, which she puts to music and narrates.