Amy, that's what Google did yesterday - you can now call landlines & cell phones with Google Voice, but only through Gmail. That will obviously be added to GV as well.
Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com ~ granneman.tel Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." ---Pablo Picasso On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:16 AM, amycsj <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
