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Telephony
  • Internet Telephony Primer - from Tech
  • Useful Telephone Number Services & Links
  • Webopedia -  links to more than 20 sites that cover the full range of internet telephony products and information sources.
  • Rate Plan - click the long-distance link to determine if there is a better long-distance rate plan than the one you are currently using.
  • Phone Accessories Site -Free Phone Cards, Long Distance Offers - Internet Phone
  • 10-10phonerates.com - answers to common dial around questions, how to get free faxes without a fax machine, evaluations of various phone services and rate plans, understanding phone bills.
  • Wireless Advisor  - wireless phone advice, glossary, articles, message forums, links to providers.
  • Teldir is the Internet's original and most complete index of online phone books, with links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings from over 150  countries all around the world."
  • Primeris  -gives the location for an area code, an area code/prefix combination, or an international country/city code. But you can use wildcards, so for example you can say 415 for the area code, leave the prefix blank, and get a complete list; or put a one or two digit number in the prefix field and get all prefixes that match. The prefix list identifies the company that controls that prefix. It might be your local phone company, or an alternate local carrier, cellular or paging service, etc.
  • Intranets.com  web site meant for storing and coordinating activities and information for a family, club, or small business. By using a password, all of the members can see each other's information in the Group Members list and can automatically send email addressed to some or all members. Any member can add information about outside people and companies to the Group Contacts List, add links to web pages of interest to the group, upload ocuments to share with other members, add private and group appointments to a calendar, participate in discussion forums, and more, free.
  • Speak4free -  build an account, login, and you will get a screen asking for your phone number and a phone number in the U.S. that you want to call. A moment later your phone will ring, you will hear a short advertisement, then you will be connected to the number you wanted for a five minute free call.
  • Hotvoice  - a voice/fax mailbox with a toll-free number in the U.S., but you share that number with all other subscribers so people wanting to leave you a message must press in an extension  number first. They have local dialup numbers in many countries around the world besides the U.S. The free service allows people to leave you messages using all these numbers, but the owner of the mailbox must sign on to the hotvoice web site to retrieve messages and faxes.
  • Firetalk - a free program that lets you make "free worldwide calls, unlimited conference calling, voice and text chat at any website, group web browsing with voice, instant messaging and voice mail. Make unlimited local, long-distance and international person-to-person and group calls. Hold a live, voice conference call with as many as 100 people. Surf to any website and automatically talk to other Firetalk users who are also there. Free." These "calls" are PC-to-PC over the Internet, not real telephone calls. Sites that let you make free phone calls from your PC to real telephone numbers in the U.S. and 13 other countries.
  • Dialpad.com site - make free long distance calls from your computer to any phone number.
  • Hottelephone.com -similar to dialpad.com, but they let you make calls to a few other countries besides the U.S. But hottelephone.com only lets you talk for 5 minutes per call.
  • Phonefish - a way to read email on his WAP-enabled cell phone and it really works. If you need this service, check this site out.
  • Evoice.com  - "Automatic Number Identification" or "ANI" is the mechanism that figures out what your phone number is. Call their toll free number 1-800-222-6000, and press 8, wait for the prompt, then 06, it will read back your phone number. Evoice is a free voicemail system that you and your callers can access via local numbers in some parts of the country, or by the toll-free number. (They are trying to get you to use it as your only voicemail, but it is limited.)  However (1) They will optionally send you email every time you receive a voice message with an attachment containing the message in RealAudio format. (2) If you tell them to answer your phone and give them your phone number, they will arrange with your local phone company to add the Busy Call Forwarding and No-Answer Call Forwarding features to your phone and, according to one of their support people, evoice will pay the bill for these features! Unfortunately you still won't be able to have a custom greeting, but at least it will answer your phone with a nice generic message with your name in the middle. For non-Internet users as well. It is possible to sign up for a box strictly by phone by calling 1-800-GET-EVOIce.
  • SpiderPhone is a telephone conference call service that lets you set up a conference call of up to 60 parties with amplification so that everyone hears each other perfectly. You setup calls yourself from their web site without needing an operator, and you can use this service for 30 days totally free!
  • Www.cjb.net - 100 email addresses of your choice that will forward to your main email address, but you can tell which of the 100 the sender used. The home page for the site lists all of its features.
  • Unimobile.com - for those with a digital cell phone, alphanumeric pager, or wireless PDA, or who have friends with any of these devices. You download and run a skinnable PC application that at first glance is like ICQ or AOL Instant Messenger in that you register yourself, and then build a list of buddies who also subscribe to the system. The program will show you who is online, let you send instant messages to them, etc.
  • Asweseeit.com - the kind of information that would normally not be available to the public, or if it was available in some states, it would normally be a chargeable search. "For decades, police and investigators have been able to get information about citizens through DMV searches.   This site is free.
  • Buzme.com - where you can get a free voice mail system just like the Message Center service from your phone company, as well as a totally free Internet call-waiting service. These services combine phone and Internet features to provide an Internet call-waiting sort of service.They will contact your local phone company for you to have the Busy and No-Answer Call Forwarding services added to your line, and they will pay all of the installation and monthly charges!
  • Mytalk.com  a free voicemail system with a toll-free number, so people can leave you messages and you can retrieve them all toll-free. It is a shared phone number so you and your callers must enter a pin number to access your box. But here are the three fun parts: (1) mytalk has a seech- recognition engine so you can talk to it if you want instead of punching touchtone buttons. It's voice is very friendly and sounds like your personal assistant, as you talk back to it with voice commands. (2) You can make free outgoing phone calls through the system, but only for two minutes and you need to listen to short ads first. (3) Mytalk will read your email via the speech synthesizer.
  •  ICQ Inc. The ICQ Surf Alpha Site  Now you can surf along with other ICQ Surf users, find people who share your interests and chat with them on the same Web page !! Download ICQ Surf Alpha Ver 1.10 build 113 Please note that ICQ Surf Alpha version. Also see:
  • Qtalka.com - an add-on for ICQ lets you send instant voice messages to people on your ICQ list who also install the program. When you run Qtalka, you will see a list of people from your ICQ list who are online right now. Each name will have a + or - in front of it, the + meaning that this person is running Qtalka also. Double click to establish a connection (they get a prompt to accept or reject) and then press the Talk button and speak into your PC's microphone; whatever you say will come out of your friend's speakers.
  • CostcoItem # 357088- Sprint 480 Minute Prepaid Phone Card 4.16 Cents Per Minute $19.99 

    • Shipping included. With features like easy to follow instructions and 24-hour customer service, the Sprint Prepaid Phone Card makes staying in touch painlessly convenient. Easy to purchase online. Same low per minute* rate 24 hours a day. Rechargeable - add minutes to your card by calling Sprint customer service; 8 hours of domestic talk time! Global Calling and 24-hour customer service, 7 days a week. Sprint quality and reliability. Easy to buy online. Easy to use. Order online today and within 10 business days you will receive your calling card via United States Postal Service. Your personal card number is used each time a call is made using the Sprint Prepaid system. Lots of other discount items here as well.
Internet Fax
  • Fax4free lets you send faxes for free. You must first sign up for their service, and in the process they will give you a unique phone number somewhere in the U.S. (probably not local to you) that you can use to receive voice mail messages and faxes. Anything left on this number will be forwarded to your normal email address as an attachment. Send a fax to any fax number in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. Just login to their web site using the user name and password, fill in the form, compose the wording or upload it to their site. The fax will be delivered promptly.
  • Pages.com - Internet fax - links and resources
  • MyWirelessPalm.com-  getting the Internet in the Palm of your hand -everything you want to know about getting your Palm connected to the Internet. Check our Articles on getting wireless and our easy-to-follow 'How To' Guides on how to set everything up. It's easy...check it out! SMS, WAP, Web Clipping... 

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Gadgetry Radio
  • Live Radio and TV on the Net - links and resources
  • The Radio Webcaster  - a state-of-the-art, low power FM transmitter that connects to your computer's sound card, sending the audio output from your computer to any FM receiver within its range in stereo, and change, browse, add, or remove station presets; play MP3's; adjust the volume; even record your favorite program. Let Kim2000 talk you through all of the Radio Webcaster remote functions right through your radio or computer's speakers.
  •  Hiwire - Download the free program for your PC and you will have an easy way to listen to pretty much every radio station in the world that broadcasts in any Internet streaming format. Hiwire contains a database of every station they can find, including its city and format, the URL to its web site, and the technical details on how to connect to its streaming audio server. This is all presented to you in a very user friendly way.
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