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How to Communicate With Others
When was the last time you actually made a phone call for no other reason than to simply talk to someone? How long ago was it that you sat down and wrote a letter to send through the postal service? These forms of communication were the way we connected with others for many MANY years, [...]
Gmail Calling: One Million Served and Counting
In less than twenty-four hours, the new Gmail Calling service has helped connect people more than a million times. The new feature is handsome if you’re contacting someone in Canada or the United States since those calls are totally free. Google is subsidizing those calls through its international rates… which are as low as two [...]
How Do You Make International Calls?
Skype users won’t be shocked to see the numbers released in a recent report by telegeography. The findings show that Skype-to-Skype calls accounted for 13 percent of total International call minutes in 2009. The stats showed that a whopping 54 Billion (out of a total of 406 Billion) International call minutes were done through Skype. [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I think that this is the one day of the year where nearly everyone tries to claim they are at least “part” Irish. What better excuse is there to eat some awesome food, drink a lot of green beer, and have a great time on a weekday? I was watching my local news earlier, and [...]
How Can Companies Hire Social Media Directors?
I came across an interesting link today while browsing Twitter. The author writes about how companies who are new to social media are failing miserably when it comes to writing job descriptions for their newly-created social media positions. He goes on to say he used to blame the companies themselves for writing poorly-constructed ads. Then, [...]
TeamSpeak vs Ventrilo vs Mumble Audio for Gamers
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Voice over IP (or VoIP) is just not going to go away, despite what Wicket wants. It’s not just here for awhile, it’s definitely going to be around. You may have used Skype, or Vonage before to talk to someone. If [...]
What is MagicJack?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed What do you currently use for your phone service? Do you use a traditional land-line company, or something like Vonage? I’ve been using Vonage in my home for a couple of years now. Lately, though, some people were asking me what [...]
Skype on the iPhone / iPod Touch
This morning, CNET reported that Skype is officially coming to the iPhone in a few days. I’m impressed, but not really thrilled. I usually keep Skype open on my desktop, but prefer to use it for video calls only – which you won’t be able to do on the iPhone, so… whatever. On the other [...]
Are There Extensions for Cell Phones in Your Home?
Ronni was a speaker at Gnomedex last year. She is one amazing lady, and a good friend. She has an excellent question, sent to me recently via email. Sadly, I don’t have the answer. However, I’m hoping one of you out there will know if there’s something like what she’s looking for. Since you are [...]
How to FAX over VOIP on the Internet
Brightstar wrote: “I keep hearing about how hard it is for faxes to work through VOIP. I’ve prepared a top 5 list of things you can do to make sure your faxes have the best chance of going through.” Set your baud rate to 9600 and turn off Error Correction Mode. The slower your Fax [...]
VoIP Tips Skype, Phones, Gizmo, and Ventrilo
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I don’t use traditional means of communication anymore. I tend to use VoIP more than anything. I have Ventrilo open pretty much constantly, to communicate easily with my friends and co-workers. I also just installed it on Ponzi’s computer, so we [...]
What is Ventrilo?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The community-at-large is loving GoToMeeting as we’ve been using it (they’re offering an exclusive 45-day trial for you right now). While we were chatting tonight, Wirelesspacket demonstrated a VoIP client that we’ve started to use on a regular basis around here [...]
Are You a Skype Supernode?
If you run Skype outside of a NAT configuration, you may be passing traffic as a supernode. Skype’s documentation claims the impact of this extra traffic is negligible, but you can prevent your Skype client / connection from becoming a supernode altogether: Beginning with Skype 3.0, an explicit switch is provided in the registry settings [...]
Skype Audio Problems on the MacBook Pro
For the life of me, I could not figure out why I was only getting audio out of my right MacBookPro speaker. Live chatter Eric Wrixon made the reason abundandly clear: I think I might know why your Skype client on your Macbook Pro only plays audio out of the right speaker. If I’m not [...]
Skype and VOIP Thoughts
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – Online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Monday, Niklas Zennstrom, the co-founder and chief executive of Internet phone service Skype, , is stepping down and will become non-executive chairman of Skype’s board. Four of my friends joined me for this discussion: Kat, SC_Thor, [...]
