| Author | Message | ||
     Hans  |
Check out www.skype.com Long distance calls (also intercontinental calls) from your computer to a line phone for 2 cents a minute. To a computer on line NOTHING. Very easy to install. I was already connected: "Hallo hallo, hallo" before I realized that I had to plug a microphone into the sound card.  Hans | ||
| Ethanr  |
It's pretty cool to be able to make long distance calls for free. I'm not as familiar with the PC software, but the iChat AV built into Mac OS X works great when my family wants to video-chat with friends and relatives all over the US. Audio-only calls even work pretty well over a modem line. The drawback, of course, is that you can't just dial a standard phone number...but hey, for free what do you expect? ($0.02/minute's certainly not bad when you need to reach a standard line!) If you've got a Mac, iChat AV works with AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) 5.5 so you can chat with any PC users via AIM, and the next version of iChat will allow up to 4 connections for video conferences (though I haven't yet read anything about multiple video connections including PC AIM clients) and 10 connections for audio-only. (Message edited by ethanr on January 19, 2005) |
