Free SkypeOut until the end of the year
If you haven’t heard of VoIP or Skype it is a technology that allows people to make phone calls over the internet. Yesterday Skype announced they were doing a promotion allowing free phone calls from your PC or Mac to any phone or cell phone in the US or Canada.
Free SkypeOut for calls to US and Canada until the end of year
I found the news yesterday, but they were still working out the kinks. The program was insisting that I needed to buy credits. Many people were complaining about it on the forums, and now a day later it looks like they fixed it. I just tested it out and it will dial without buying any credits.
So, the free promotion runs until the end of the year, and then they will decide if they want to continue. All you need is a decent soundcard with a microphone input, a mic and speakers and you can call anyone in the US or Canada for free. This includes landlines as well as cellphones.
The Shoutbox is gone.
I checked my page today and had 532 messages in the shoutbox, pretty much all spam. The same strange generic spammer messages, “Hey, great site blah blah blah random stuff that doesn’t make sense blah blah blah hey a bunch of links to crappy sites.”
So, I got rid of it. If you’d like to leave a comment you can do so at the end of the post you are commenting on. I think that’s better anyway.