Sunday, July 13, 2008

How to Make FREE International Calls to Any Phone from Google Talk

Google Talk users can now make free international phone calls to any phone, landline or mobile across 30 countries including US,UK,Australia,Canada

How it works?

Step 1: Launch Google Talk on your desktop
Step 2: Click on the Add button to add a friend.
Step 3: Type in the phone number of the person you want to call in the following format.
Use full phone number, including country code and area code:

phonenumber@talkster.gtalk2voip.com

Example: for UK, use 442071234567@talkster.gtalk2voip.com or for USA , use 12125551212@talkster.gtalk2voip.com

Please make sure to check the list of Talkster's supported countries to check if the friend you want to call is in one of the available countries

Step 4: You'll get a confirmation from Talkster with instructions.
Your friend is assigned a local Talkster number in their country. Your friends will use Talkster phone numbers to call-in to be connected with you.

Step 5: If you are calling your friend on a mobile phone, he will receive an SMS with his Talkster call-in number for you. Otherwise, let him know the Talkster number by IM or email.

How to make calls fom Google Talk?

Click on your friend's number in your Google Talk Contact List & Click on the Call button to start the call with your friend. Talkster will dial out to your friend from Google Talk. When your friend answers, you will have 10 seconds to check to see if he's available to talk. Tell him to hang up and call right back, using his local Talkster phone number for you.You wait while your friend hangs up and calls back using his local number for you. (If he doesn't know his number, send it to him by email or IM).As soon as your friend calls in, we connect you and you can talk as long as you want for FREE. When you're done, you just end the call!Tell your friend to save his Talkster call-in number in his phone so he can use it whenever you want to call him from Google Talk

Friday, May 16, 2008

What is so special about Fring??

Fring,an Israeli startup, is a great P2P (peer-to-peer) VoIP based internet telephony network for mobile phones. Fring enables users to talk and chat using Skype, ICQ, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo Messenger and SIP providers.
What is the Technology behind it?
It uses native MoIP solution using a proprietary adaptive protocol which optimizes itself to network capabilities and characteristics. The thin client consumes minimum network requirements, battery and memory consumption.
How does it work?
All fring calls are routed to a VoIP gateway & PSTN termination server. Calls destined to GSM & PSTN networks pass through a circuit switch such as Skype or SIP. Calls to VoIP users continue through the VoIP gateway to their destinations.
I found out the following video which illustrates the capability of Fring,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPPrKUKkc8Q

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Gmail blocked at work place??

How should you access Gmail, when it is blocked at school or work?

I found some ways to access it .The clue is that you can always use Glite, HTML version of Gmail. Note that it is not from Google. You should be careful when trying to access your Gmail account from those places.Some of the sites(not secure)to access Gmail using Glite are:
http://www.yeehart.com/
http://www.syscare.uni.cc/
http://glite.sayni.net/
http://www.yoyahoo.com/
http://nfriedly.com/gmail/
http://www.litemail.eu

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Make Google Suggest your Homepage

I know most of us have Google as our homepage. Instead, why dont you make Google Suggest as your homepage? I know your next question. why? The answer is that it actually aids in rephrasing/refining your search.

Google Suggest is nothing but google search plus good real-time suggestions. As you type into the search box, google will offer suggestions based out of data collected from the overall popularity of various related searches. For e.g. if you wanna search for 'How to download books from google book search'. As you type 'How to download books' in the search box, google suggest offers related suggestions which also helps in saving your typing time.
Okay.http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en is the link. Go Ahead & get suggestions.

How to search blogs which contains your favorite topic?

Blogsearch

How to find out blogs available on the internet on your favorite topic?. Simple.Just land yourself on http://blogsearch.google.com/ and start searching.

Cool Features

1. You can search for blogs not only written in English but also in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Swedish, Malay, Polish, Thai & other languages as well.

2. Blog Search also supports some new operators of its own:

inblogtitle:
inposttitle:
inpostauthor:
blogurl:

Chat in your Favorite Instant Messenger without installing software in your machine

If you wanna chat in your favorite IM client such as AIM,Yahoo messenger, Google Talk or MSN without installing the software on your machine, then just visit this site, http://www.meebo.com/ . So next time if any IM client installation gives trouble, forget about reinstallation. Just logon to meebo and start chatting.