Voice chat is certainly nothing new on the internet, however I wanted to bring you a tool which I recently became aware of. It is known as Skype (www.skype.com). It is a free internet telephony service. Their software client integrates chat as well, but you can easily strike a chat with anybody in the world - for free. The catch for the freebie is that the person you are chatting to must register on Skype as well. There are service add-ons such that will allow you to use Skype to call any phone number just like a normal phone, as well as voice mail.
I am currently using Skype to chat with developers down in Argentina. The quality is not bad. Just like internet traffic, it has it’s days. One day its crystal clear, another day it may be hard to understand them. But, for free, I can’t complain. I just hooked up a USB headset to my PC, installed Skype, and I was in business.
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me said:
4/26/2007 6:47 pm
works to disable content advisor meaning you can use IE to browse,
HOWEVER, it does NOT remove the password protection from content advisor
and therefore if you ever want to enable content advisor, you’ll still need
the password!
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