Thanks Garrett!
Harry
Texas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garrett Wilner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [SaF] program similar to dialpad
|
| At 06:56 PM 2/2/01 -0600, you wrote:
| >Does anyone know of a pc to regular phone program to call long
distance
| >without long distance charges similar to dialpad?
| >
| >Thanks
| >
| >Harry
| >Texas
|
| Harry,
|
| If you're looking for an easy solution, Yahoo! Messenger has free
phone
| calls to anywhere in the U.S.
|
| It only requires that you go to their www page and sign up for Yahoo!
| Messenger by creating a User Name and Password for yourself... you can
do
| instant chat (typing messages to other Yahoo Messenger folks)... or
(and
| this speaks to your question above), you can click on the little
telephone
| icon and make an actual phone call from your computer (using a
microphone
| and your computer's speakers) to another phone anywhere in the United
States.
|
| The entire installation process (yes, there is some software to
download)
| is totally automatic and prompts you every step of the way. They've
| designed this whole thing for "newbies." ;)
|
| You can start here: http://www.yahoo.com
|
| Then click on the messenger icon, which links to this address and
follow
| the directions:
|
| http://messenger.yahoo.com/
|
| I believe Yahoo! Messenger uses a Net2phone plug-in for the free long
| distance. I use a cable modem (Roadrunner) for fast Internet access
and
| have found the long distance calls to be nearly "perfect" in quality.
| Things have come a long way...
|
| Hope this helps...
|
| Garrett
| Austin, Texas
|
