Make VOIP calls via Google Voice

Google has launched (not yet in India) a Gmail-integrated VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) client that would allow users to make phone calls directly from the browser.

The feature is different from the voice and video chat that is already available from Gmail using the chat feature, in that it isn't solely between chat users. Instead, the new feature allow users to call any type of phone directly from their Web browser.

For those users seeing the test of the new product, the ability to make phone calls is added directly to the Google Talk popup that appears in the lower right corner of the Gmail screen, offering a keypad, a call history, and a credit balance. According to the screenshots from CNET, Google will offer free calls within the U.S. and Canada, with cheap international calling, in 2010.

 

 If you are a Gmail user in the U.S., you can now make free Web-based phone calls to any phone in the U.S. and Canada right from the Gmail interface. You can also make International calls for fees starting at $0.02 per minute.

  

Source: www.readwriteweb.com , news.cnet.com

Free Pc to Phone calls ( tried and tested)

Here is something really interesting and benificial to all.
You can now make calls from your pc to mobiles in almost any country for free.
Here is the site that I found dat allows to call without registering but max 3 calls a day for unregistered users.
The only negative thing is that the call duration depends upon the country,for ex:if we want to call a person in united states then the free call duration is upto 4 minutes and if you want to call any person in india,then the free call duration is about 1 minute depending upon the place.
http://evaphone.com
for available destinations list
http://evaphone.com/destinations


Another site that gives you 10 mins of call  any number in the world (tried and tested)
http://www.mobivox.com

Above websites are working for India.

People in other countries try the following sites. I havent tried them coz they doesnt support country INDIA.

http://www.tokiva.com/

http://www.vivophone.com

http://www.iamvoip.com

http://www.goobercall.com/

https://www.gorillamobile.com

http://www.rebtel.com    -10 mins of free call

http://www.dialsimple.com

http://www.flashphone.ru

http://www.sendglobal.com

http://www.voipax.com

http://www.talkety.com

http://www.youcall.com/en .

If any one tries above mentioned sites and finds it genuine plz let me and others know by ur comments.

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Some Really useful Widgets and addons for blog/site

Adding Widgets, Add-Ons & tools to your blog is not just a lot of fun for your blog readers, but can also be very useful and help you to create a community for your blog or even a loyal reader base.

Here's a collection of best and most useful blog widgets or add-ons that can be easily integrated with any website/blog. All these below add-ons are 100% Free and they are very easy to install.

Outbrain Star Ratings Widget: Very eager to know what your readers think about your posts?
Here is a cool star rating widget by Outbrain. The insttallation is very simple,
just follow the step by step instructions on their site.

ShareThis or AddThis : Sharethis or Addthis social bookmarking buttons makes it easy for your visitors to share your content with others. It is a good way to increase your link popularity and publicity. Their nice css dropdown icons reduces the clutter on your pages and eliminates the need to add a different button for each social bookmarking service.


whos.amung.us : This is a real time visitor tracking widget and displays
the number of people currently on your site and what pages they are
reading. You don't need any sign-up's to grab this widget.

Web2PDF Online : With this widget installed, your visitors can easily download
your articles in PDF format with just a click. The downloaded PDF's are
free of any advertising and you can get full access to download stats,etc.

ZOHO Creator: With Zoho Creator, you can create professional online
contact forms/web forums in minutes. The good things about this is
there are no data limits and readers can also upload attachments while
submitting the form.

Google Talk Badge: Google Talk Badge will let your visitors to
chat with you.The badge will active whenever you sign in to
Googletalk. The nice thing is your visitors can chat with you even
if they don't have a google account.

Yahoo Media Player: With this very useful widget, you can easily add a simple media player to your blog which can auto detect mp3 links and create an embedded player. This tool is very useful for especially audio,music blogs.


Cbox: Cbox or Chatbox is a chat widget which can be easily embedded
in any web page. It is free and have many features including message
history, spam blocking,etc. It can be easily customizable to fit your
blog layout.

Google Translate: This widget lets your non-English speaking
visitors to quickly translate your webpage in their native
language with just a single click.

SYMPA:Send Your Mail Privately & Anonymously.

Here is an interesing freeware that allows you to send mail privately and anonymously. With this SMTP Email client, sending Anonymous Emails was never easier. Several additional useful options are provided with this freeware utility.

FEATURES: 

Send totally Anonymous E-Mails. (Through Tunnel Proxy)

Send SMS messages via E-Mail. (Depending on your area phone service provider)

Chat with friends in private and public mode.

Built in web browser for easier and lighter use of PC resources when a quick surf is needed.

Check, convert to decimal and resolve IPv4 to addresses or vice versa.

Register / UnRegister DirectShow Filters installed on your PC.

A New Direct link in the SYMPA browser section will open a PROXY web site for your convenience.
This web site provides a daily updated PROXY list helping you find a better selection among hundreds of proxies.
The PROXY web site will even open automatically in case the SYMPA's PROXY entry field was left empty.

The Re-designed internal Tunnel Proxy engine has been improved for speed and reliability.
SYMPA has a very user-friendly interface along with 2 intercept buttons allowing a visual interpretation of all DATA exchange occurring between your PC and the SMTP server.
Every single byte exchanged between your PC and the SMTP server will be displayed on the intercept window.
You will be able to monitor & analyze all status, errors, return messages between your PC and the SMTP server.

DOWNLOAD FREE!!
 

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Frolic Tech : A Roll Laptop Concept

D-ROLL:

D-roll is a next generation concept laptop design which is way distinctive from usual laptops in both shape and function. The long tube shape of this laptop, which was inspired from the storage tubes that artists are using for storing large drawings, eliminates perception of the traditional book looking laptops.

 This multifunctional laptop has two working modes. When it is operating in full function mode, the laptop is unfolded completely and all peripherals are turned on. The main display is turned off and a smaller screen, attached with main body is turned on allowing the users to check and send mails when D-roll is under email mode. VC is a helpful add-on for capturing pictures or videos and Locking System can provide certain security to the laptop.

D-roll is also a foldable design.The flexible screen and the keyboard are able to be rolled up and stored inside the tube. The video camera can be attached to the right end of the tube. And the strap is able to be connected in the middle .It becomes compact and easy for travelling.

1. Detach the flexible screen from the video output slot and roll it up.

 

 

 2. Roll up the flexible Keyboard. Store it in the notch which also works as a standing foot on the back.

3.Insert the flexible screen into the tube. Attach the two parts of strap and lock them together.

 4. Put the mouse on the cap of the end. And then, it is ready to go with you.

Designer : Hao Hua.

Also read:

Next Gen Desktop 

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Frolic Site : WobZIP

Wobzip : Uncompress on the fly

 

Wobzip : Sometimes, you may go to your friends house and download some zip file. But, maybe your friend PC does not have software to uncompress it.

It allow users to uncompress as many compressed file formats as possible. This means that you can compress your files using the compression format of your choice and send it to your friends.

Wobzip can help you by providing uncompress service on the fly. It suppost various format, and the maximum file size supported is 100MB!

Site scan your compressed files using an anti-virus scanner so any infected files will be removed before you download them onto your computer.

On the other way round, following two services allow you to compress up to 5 files and also email the same.

1. MailMyZip (Max size 2 mb per file)
2. ZipOnline (Max size 650 kb per file)

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Frolic Site : GOODWIDGETS.com

Good Widgets: photo display widgets

If you're looking for a nice and different way to display your photos on your website, you really should go and have a peek at Good Widgets.

Currently Good Widgets offers 3 different photo display widgets - the book, the stack and the slideshow. Each one is customizable to suit your site. Also, each is available in two flavours - free but has the Good Widgets logo and a smaller number of photos per widget OR Standard, which is priced from $2 to $4 and doubles the number of photos.

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Frolic Site : WIX.COM

Wix has developed a WebTop publishing platform; allowing users to create any kind of web content (web sites, widgets, blogs, myspace layouts) and publish that content anywhere they want.
Wix is the only publishing offering that allows users to create stunning flash-based content online that is totally personalized and without the need to code. Wix does this without the need to use complex publishing systems and without being constrained by the limitations of template based solutions. Furthermore Wix sites enable effective promotion as they are SEO friendly.
Wix launched the open beta in June. Wix users are small businesses, consumers and web designers. They are located in NY and Tel Aviv.

Some Latest Features :  

• Areas of easy layout and structures.
• Paragraph with scrollbar!
• New contact from skins and colour.
• Add your Twitter feeds!
• Add behaviour on rollover and rollout mousestate.
  

All designed to make creating Flash websites and other web content simpler, faster and even more powerful!

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Facebook Fascinating Facts

"How Facebook is taking over our lives
President Obama used it to get elected. Dell will recruit new hires with it. Microsoft's new operating system borrows from it. No question, Facebook has friends in high places. Can CEO Mark Zuckerberg make those connections pay off?"
Some up to date stats from the article:
 - Members: 175 million
 - Estimated 2008 revenues just $280 million
 - Average user spends 169 minutes per month on Facebook, Google 13 minutes
 - More than 70% of Facebook users are outside the U.S
 - Fastest growing demographic on the site: Women 55 and older, up 175% since September 2008 

Real Facts:
1. The average Facebook user spends about twenty-one minutes plus per day at the online social network.
2. The average Facebook user visits four times per day.
3. Facebook is adding about three hundred and fifty thousand new users every day.
4. Just this morning Facebook surpassed fifty million worldwide community members.
5. Facebook's size doubles every six months.


Anything jump out at you?  For me the startling fact is the the average user spends over 3 hours per month on the site.  The other is the astounding growth on the female over 55 group in less than 6 months.  Our company has been more focused on other Social Media sites, but personally, my Facebook usage has been growing as of late.  Is your company using Facebook?

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Frolic Gadget : Foldable bike concept

The TFL Bikeshare network concept outlines an efficient and healthy way to realize the ultimate solution for commuters. This concept comprises a foldable e-bike that can be rode from the home and deposited to modular mobile hub, and board a bus. Upon arrival at destination, another hub will be there to rent another bike through using the unique Oystercard which can be availed by leasing the service on a per trip or monthly basis.

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The E-bike has been designed with airless tires, robust tubular construction and shaft drive, ensuring durability, while the luminated front bar and dazzling graphics increase the visibility and safety for the rider. E-bikes have designed to be folded quickly and intuitively by the user and deposit it into the storage modules after arriving to a transit hub. RFID technology has been utilized to charge the users on their Oystercard according to the amount of E-bike rental time. When docked, E-bikes act as hub seating and get charged for the next renter.

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Frolic tech: Nokia Nano technology

Nokia Company and Cambridge University (Great Britain) presented conceptual nano technic device Nokia Morph at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA). This device demonstrates how the mobile technique in the future will stretch and bend and will be transformed in different forms. Flexible materials, see through electronics, self - cleaning surfaces - all this is possible in nano technology.

"We hope that this combination of science and art will present nano technology potential to a wider audience. The research that we lead are fundamental since we are looking for safe and controllable ways of new materials usage" reported doctor Tapani Ryhanen, the head of the Nokia research center. The Nokia and Cambridge University partnership was announced in March 2007.

The Nokia research center has its division in the Cambridge University and cooperates with some departments but firstly with Nano Science center and electrotechnic department. Common projects are connected mainly with nano technology.
Some Nokia Morph elements can be integrated in the mobile devices in the next 7 years. Nano technology can make cheaper the mobile devices production and will allow acquiring more functions with lower price.

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Frolic Gadget : Nokia Twist 7705

 

The Nokia Twist (model 7705) is a square-shaped phone that comes jam packed with a swivel-out QWERTY keyboard. 

 As a Verizon phone, the Twist provides you access to V Cast music and video. The handset also supports visual voice mail. 

Additional features include a full HTML browser, a 3MP camera, and a “post to blogs” function for easy uploading of your media to the internet.

 

Here are some of the phone’s features and technical specifications:

• 2.4 inch 262K colour QVGA screen
• Full QWERTY keypad
• Customizable Contact Light Ring button
• 3 MP camera with autofocus and flash
• GPS enabled
• 256MB built-in memory
• 2.1 Stereo Bluetooth
• 5 hours talktime (battery life),13 days standby time

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Frolic Gadget : Fart smell measuring Gadget

 

 Is There a Scientific Way to Measure How Bad a Fart Smells?

For their senior project, two Cornell University computer-engineering whizzes recently built a machine that measures smell for the farts. After learning in class how breathalyzers work, Robert Clain and Miguel Salas assembled a fart detector from a sensitive hydrogen sulfide monitor, a thermometer and a microphone and wrote the software that would rate the emission. A “slight perturbance in the air” near the detector sets it to work measuring the three pillars of fart quality: stench, temperature and sound. Temperature, Clain explains, is critical. The hotter a fart, the faster it spreads. “It beeps faster if it’s a high ranker, and a voice rates it on a scale of zero to nine,” he says. “If it ranks a nine, a fan comes on to blow it away. It even records the noise so you can play it back later.” After a few months of construction, they began field tests. “Well, the sample data wasn’t the entire school, but we definitely tested it,” Salas says.

The contraption could even have use outside of fraternity houses, Clain says, as a biosensor for harmful hydrogen-sulfide-producing bacteria in hospitals. Or dentists could use it to measure oral malodor. They’ve also received some interest from doctors with four-legged patients. “You can test the health of livestock through the quality of their farts,” Salas says. “Smell and sound can tell you a lot about their bowel movements.”

When it came time to present the invention in class, though, Clain and Salas had to test their detector by making raspberry sounds and breathing on it—human exhalations contain enough hydrogen sulfide to trigger the sensor. “It’s hard to fart something really smelly on command,” Clain laments. “Besides, it provided a nicer atmosphere for those around us.” Still, their professor saw fit to award the project a well-deserved A.

Technology to Re-Ice Artic to save earth

 

 
Location: Near Greenland
Project Cost: $50 billion

The Problem:
Arctic ice is melting, diluting the salty seas with freshwater and, many suspect, weakening the ocean currents that help regulate the global climate by transporting heat around the globe. If these currents were to shut down, the consequences would be unpredictable and dire: immense loss of marine life and fisheries; a reduction in the ability of the ocean to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere; and, some scientists speculate, drastic cooling of Northern Europe.

The Fix:
Make more Arctic ice, and make it salty. Under normal conditions, warm-water currents like the Gulf Stream carry heat from the tropics to Europe. After a current releases its heat, the water sinks (cold water is more dense than warm; salty more dense than fresh) and flows back to the equatorial regions along the ocean floor. This sinking is the engine that powers global currents. But in one apocalyptic scenario, melted Arctic ice dilutes the water in the North Atlantic to the point where the tropics-bound current isn't dense enough to sink. The heat-carrying currents skid to a halt, and Europe enters a new ice age.
Industrial engineer Peter Flynn of the University of Alberta proposes
a bold way to boost currents if
they begin to slacken: Tow 8,000 ice-
making barges to the Arctic, and make a salty ice cube the size of New Mexico. In this plan, the barges would arrive off the coast of Greenland in the fall. As winter set in and air temperatures fell below 14F, wind-powered water pumps on the barges would shower salty seawater on top of the existing ice pack, creating new layers of extremely salty ice.
Come spring, the barges would boost the currents by spraying more water onto the newly formed saline ice pack. As it melted, the cold, dense, salty water would sink into the deep ocean. The result: a 6 percent increase in down-welling currents, enough to keep the system moving along.

Next Steps :
Flynn does not advocate implementing this solution now-only if the slowdown reaches a critical threshold (what that threshold is and when it may occur is still in question) and only if all else fails. It's not a plan B, he says; it's a plan D. Instead, a better course of action would be to ensure that the down-welling currents and ocean conveyor belt not be suppressed in the first place.

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Insulating Glaciers to save earth.

Location:Swiss Alps
The Problem
Glaciers-Earth's largest freshwater reservoir, collectively covering an area the size of South America-are melting away, shrinking by up to hundreds of feet per year in some places. The Alps alone stand to lose three quarters of its glaciers by 2050, and what's left by the end of the century.
The Fix
Wrap thawing glaciers in football-field-size synthetic blankets that keep the cold in and the heat out. At least that's what ski resorts in the Swiss Alps are doing. Tired of risking the fate of their industry on the global community's ability to get a grip on rapid climate change, more than a dozen resorts turned to local textile company Fritz Landolt to stop the melting. Called the Ice Protector, Landolt's material is a tough but lightweight dual-layer composite. On top is polyester to reflect ultraviolet light, and on the bottom is polypropylene, a polymer used in military clothing and auto parts, to block heat. When wrapped around a glacier, it prevents the top snow layer-and, it's hoped, the permanent ice underneath-from melting in the summer sun.
After a small pilot project in 2005 on the shrinking Gurschen glacier proved hugely successful-the blanketed area had 80 percent less melt than surrounding ice and snow two years in a row-Landolt has been tackling bigger and bigger ice packs, including an area the size of six football fields (more than 300,000 square feet) on the Vorab glacier, home to one of Switzerland's largest ski resorts.

Project Cost: $12 million per square mile 

Next Steps
Don't count on the blankets saving the snows of Kilimanjaro. With the ski resorts footing the bill, their use is limited to critical areas where melt directly interferes with skiing and snowboarding. But there's always the burgeoning beer market. "We had a guy throwing an outdoor party last summer," says Landolt product manager Marcel Stahle. "We sold him 100 square feet. His beer stayed cold all day."

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