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grandcentral.com by google

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:15:37 -0700

grandcentral.com by google will be offering this "switch boarding" service soon. So you could just do a family plan and add an additional phone and have grandcentral forward all calls to your 2nd phone at the same time it rings on your main line.

What would be really great

Anonymous — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:24:16 -0700

What would be really great is:

If you could have one bluetooth headset able to connect to say 3 devices AND then the ability to place each on hold as you cycle through them. With out disconnecting and reconnecting the headset as you go.

I don't think so

brad — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:32:49 -0700

The two main carriers in the USA for GSM don’t as far as I know. (Though they do offer plans with unlimited nights and weekends, both incoming and outgoing.) Perhaps some of the smaller carriers do. As you know, that’s not the way of plans in North America.

Note that UK plans are not “free incoming” they are “caller pays a high fee for your incoming calls.”

US plans are “caller does not pay” (cell lines look like landlines.) instead the cell owner pays. Several of the carriers offer free incoming calls to their monthly customers who buy such a plan, but it means you miss out on some other feature that other plans get.

The incoming calls will cost the standard minute rate, which is down to 10 cents/minute on t-mobile if you buy a larger card.

Fido in Canada does offer free incoming calls on a plan that has a $1/day cost for doing so. I don’t think their prepaid roams into the USA.

how do u get prepay in states to recieve free incoming.??

moe — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:39:55 -0700

all incoming calls r free in uk. mobiles or landline. my girlfriend left for states for a week and she cant find any prepay sim to use with her gsm phone. everytime i call her on her orange uk sim, she is charge massively for recieving calls abroad. Is there any prepay sim in states that does not charge for incoming calls and does not tie u into a contract..??? any help will b appreciated....

What works

brad — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:07:51 -0700

Skype will only enable high quality on its own on windows with the 3 magic logitech webcams, at least until their deal with Logitech runs out. However, there are hacks to the config.xml file to tell it to use 640x480.

You must have a camera that can deliver 640x480 at 30fps of course, only newer ones can.

And you still need the dual core processor and good upstream bandwidth to send the video. They can usually receive with slower machines, like a 2ghz P4 or similar.

Will other webcams still work?

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:27:31 -0700

I am a novice at all this stuff, so I apologize if this is rather remedial. However, will other webcams still work with Skype just not in "high quality"?

Most excellent

brad — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:05:28 -0700

Dialing is back, baby.

it's an awesome idea I think..

Brent Rieck — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:26:05 -0700

I don't have an iPhone so I can't tell if it works or not but the idea was awesome enough to have done by somebody: http://iphone-tips-tricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/iphone-tips-idial-oldscho...

nothing wrong with it

Alex Goldman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:42:15 -0700

I agree with the anon mouse. Clearly you've touched a nerve here. This much controversy means -- this app must be delivered like Rite of Spring to the angry audience.

Look at your face

John Doe — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:54:17 -0700

It's still ridiculous.
Nobody would use it because it's so ridiculous.
ridiculoussssssssssssssssssss.

look at history

Anon Y. Mouse — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:46:27 -0700

Yep... silly and pointless.

Which is why such a thing might be wildly popular.

Look at PCs and desktop backgrounds, sound & appearance
schemes, application skins, etc. They are created,
passed around, used by many. Newbies in particular
go overboard when they find they can customize their PCs
with this stuff, much to the annoyance of sophisticated
users (especially with sounds).

Hell, look at ringtones -- people spend *millions* of
dollars on them.

If the iPhone allows such a thing (I don't know), there
probably already is a mod that emits manual typewriter
sounds when you tap on the screen keyboard, dings when
you hit a pre-set right margin, and makes the r-r-rip
carriage-return noise when you press enter.

I don't.

John Doe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:27:14 -0700

I don't.

I think it sounds good dude.

Aaron — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:36:05 -0700

I think it sounds good dude.

Absolutely ridiculous. A

John Doe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:10:09 -0700

Absolutely ridiculous.
A complete waste of time and energy.

Ringers being rude.

Sonny — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:44:45 -0800

They are rude, and don’t need to be considered as such anymore than they are. But if you hadn't noticed people will not sacrifice a luxury of there’s as not to be rude anymore. They don’t care if they are being rude, no one cares about anyone else anymore.