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Speaking of free stuff, Skype has announced that you can now place free calls from Skype to a mobile or land line. It only lasts until the end of the year and it only covers calls in the US and Canada, but it is still very cool. Couple this with the Universal client and you're set to call people from your MacBook Pro willy nilly for the next few months.Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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Nik Fletcher said 5:04PM on 5-15-2006
All I need is for this to come to the UK too - that would ROCK! Calls to UK, USA and Canada for nothing!
Nik
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Eric said 5:13PM on 5-15-2006
How about hongkong huh?
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Thorn said 5:14PM on 5-15-2006
Wonder if this launch was in conjunction with the NSA? :P
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chris Helming said 5:36PM on 5-15-2006
it would be even more cool but its not working for me. people say that they might be having trouble recognizing us/canadian ISP's
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heat said 5:53PM on 5-15-2006
doesnt work for me, with any of the wireless networks in range
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justintime24 said 5:59PM on 5-15-2006
Don't work for me....put the number in like +1 then the 7 digits still don't work
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Clay Hummer said 6:15PM on 5-15-2006
I've made three calls since receiving the email from Skype about this... one to California, one to Kansas, and another local... not a problem at all... may actually be enough to make me get rid of my cell phone and buy an account for voicemail...
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Kiwi said 6:25PM on 5-15-2006
Sadly, Skype advertised this service for US and Canadian consumers even when it didn't really work for most US users...
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mshonk said 6:40PM on 5-15-2006
Looks like they are having some problems identifying IP addresses in the US. Lots of posts on forum.skype.com about it. Not surprising that most look like they have verizon as an ISP ( I do as well and can NOT make calls).
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onechord said 7:07PM on 5-15-2006
justintime24, you need to use the area code so for example +16102995230. This is how it worked for me, i live in the US.
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John Piercy said 7:15PM on 5-15-2006
No Workie
In Canada
JP
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DigiPimp said 7:16PM on 5-15-2006
I made a couple calls to Canada with it already and it worked fine for me. Sounded almost better than my land line!
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Marco said 10:21PM on 5-15-2006
A very relevant article which also discusses this news on Skype... I'm sure people here would like to check it out...
Why traditional telecoms will lose against new Voice / Video over IP players
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Marco said 10:24PM on 5-15-2006
URL...
http://www.neomarketing.tv/archives/why_traditional_telecoms_will_lose_against_new_voice_video_over_ip_players.php
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ChrisM70 said 12:31AM on 5-16-2006
This might be a tip for slow-witted people (like me) but I tried to dial without putting the plus sign (+) first. Once I did that, it worked fine.
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Andres said 1:02AM on 5-16-2006
What about PR? Sometimes we're in!
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SlammaJamma said 1:07AM on 5-16-2006
it worked for me first try. Live in the us.
dial the + symbol, then the number 1 then the areacode and number with no spaces in between
i called my own cellphone, and a funky number with a 000 area code showed up on the caller ID.. but it worked.
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Pabjvar said 1:29AM on 5-16-2006
PR is included.
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