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  • Monday, November 21, 2005
  • Skyping on up... to the east side

    So I finally bit the bullet and got a SkypeIn number. I'd been thinking about it since I got my SkypeOut account last month just hoping that I'd know when the time was right to sign up. Well, this is cool. Ok, so my new apartment is the kind with a buzzer outside and you let people in. The building uses your home phone to ring, not a dedicated speaker box. You see where I'm going? So I bought a SkypeIn number with the proper area code so that now when someone buzzes it'll ring on my computer no matter where I'm logged in. Wait, it gets better. Instead of just sending it to voicemail if I don't answer at a computer, I can set it up to forward the call. To my cell phone and simultaneously my two roommates phones as well. So now, instead of plunking down 40 bucks a month for a telcom phone number that only rings in one room, I've got a number that acts as a house phone for everyone. Come on, you WISH you though of that. Now I just have to wait a bit for the Skype wireless handsets to get a little more reasonable and it will be so on.

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    At 1:34 PM, Blogger Dee S. Nutts said...

    Hmm... can you press # on one of these?
    http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000433069018/

     

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