Using the software that came with your webcam, usually found on the CD packaged with your laptop, you can also alter how your camera detects light and sound. Getting Windows to detect your webcam involves checking your Devices from the Control Panel, but you can be up and running conference calls within minutes.
Forty-seven-year old comedian and actor John Thomson met fellow comic Steve Coogan while studying drama at Manchester Polytechnic and he secured him a job on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image.
Erik Thomson. Scots-born Erik Thomson, star of Australian TV hit Packed to the Rafters, moved to NZ at the age of seven. In the 90s he began juggling roles on screen and stage, but his career really took off after he began acting in Australia in the mid 90s. Thomson won an AFI award for 2004 feature Somersault.