I am on google voice. But it's not computer to landline, it simply bridges your existing phones to other phones.
http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115073 http://www.youtube.com/googlevoice When I open a web browser, the phone numbers are highlighted. If I click on them, the computer will offer to dial that number from one of my phones (home, office, cell) that I have previously put in my preferences. Then when I click it, it rings that phone, e.g. my office phone, when I pick that up, it rings the number I'm dialing, the google drops out of the loop, and the I pay phone charges as if I hand dialed it by hand. If people call my google number (which is free), that is forwarded to any number I specify. I can change the number, or have day calls to one number and evening calls to another, etc. I like Skype better because it allows the computer to phone connection that Google Voice doesn't have. I also use my skype number as my main business number. I can pick it up on the computer or forward it to a series of phones where I'm likely to be. Amy On Aug 25, 8:10 pm, Don Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried the previous version a couple of years ago. Click on the number and > it calls your phone back to make the connection. Don't think they had > direct-from-computer back then. > > Guess I'll have to try this version pretty soon. Sounds like something I've > been wanting for years (and had variations of over the years, but never > quite this). > > --Don Ellis > > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Mike B. <[email protected]> wrote: > > I see that Google has released an app that lets anyone call a phone > > number straight from your computer for free (at least in the US). I > > downloaded the .deb file, but haven't installed it yet, because I'm > > not sure how to uninstall it afterwards. > > > Has anyone else tried it? What do you think? > > > It works for Win/OSX/linux. > > > -- > > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > > Main page:http://www.cwelug.org > > To post: [email protected] > > To subscribe: [email protected] > > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > > More options:http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
