People who have never used a Voice-over-IP box before get really confused because they don’t exactly understand what a VoIP box actually does, so I’ll explain it in the plainest English I can. What is a Connect-Me FREETALK box? A standalone VoIP box that allows you to use a plain telephone (meaning a traditional corded or cordless telephone) with...

Skype over the years has proven itself to be faithful reliable service. Computer-to-Computer “calls” have always been free, but you have to pay in order to connect to regular phone numbers – although it should be said their rates have always been very competitive and a good deal for the money. According to Skype’s blog, they currently...

For those of you who make use of Skype’s ability to make and receive calls to/from any phone (via your Skype Online Number), a feature which had been missing for far too long is now available: caller ID. Previously, whenever you would call from your Skype number, a random phone number would appear on the recipients caller ID instead of your Skype Online...

I use Skype quite a bit. I use it as my work at home phone to call and receive calls using a standard phone number and I use it to let my parents see their grandbaby. So I recently upgraded to the latest release of version 4 and was almost immediately bombarded with “add me to your contact list” spam. This is especially annoying because the contacts...

VoIP is Voice over Internet Protocol. It’s a general term used to describe voice communications over a packet-switched network (such as the internet). In this article I’m going to touch on the several different ways you can use PC-to-PC VoIP. Important note: Yes, VoIP obviously includes the ability to communicate via PC-to-phone and vice versa. But...

Since I installed Windows 7 I’ve been loading in a bunch of apps. Some run the same as they did in XP with no noticeable improvement in speed or stability, while others appear to run much better. Here’s a few: Mozilla Firefox Since the introduction of version 3, the best way I can describe FF is that it "bottoms out" on XP too often. Even...