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SKYPE – BETTER THAN EVER

 

                         17 important benefits from installing and using the free service SKYPE

 

1.   You can speak free of charge with all 483 million SKYPE users all over the world ( including me J )

 

2.   The programme is FREE – and it takes 3 minutes to install

 

3.   More persons can speak and listen in both ends of the conversation

 

4.   You can with SKYPE easily make a free telephone conference with up to 100 participants. A smaller number is probably more manageable !

 

5.   With a web camera ( either in your laptop/netbook already or easy to install via your USB connection) you can be seen by the people you talk to. And you can see them live, if they also have a web cam at their end

 

6.   You can free of charge CHAT with all other SKYPE users in a small box, which you write in very easily – and click: Then your friend at the other end has got your message on his screen, if his computer is open. If not, your message will appear when he opens his computer next time

 

7.   You can very easily find other SKYPE users in a simple catalogue, which covers the whole world. You click on Search and write their name or their SKYPE name, if you have that. And there they are.

 

8.   With SKYPE you can also call normal fixed phones all over the world. At the moment it costs about 0,016 € per minute – wherever you call to.

 

9.   For the amount of about 5 € a month you can from Skype call all fixed phones in 25 European countries for free. As often as you like. And as long as you like.

 

Instruction:  Open SKYPE; Open TOOLS; Open: Go to my Account Page; Sign In; Click on: Call Phones; Select: Unlimited Europe Settings

 

10.   For the monthly amount of 10.50 € you can do the same to all fixedphones in 43 countries worldwide

 

11.   You can also call all mobile phones in the world directly from SKYPE. It will cost you more than calling a fixed phone. But much less than calling from a mobile phone

 

12.   You can also send sms massages (text messages) from SKYPE. It is much easier from the computer than from a normal mobile phone. It costs about 0,04 € per message. The price differs from country to country

 

 

13.   You can transfer your incoming calls automatically to your normal phone or to your mobile phone, if your SKYPE is not open

 

Instruction:  Open SKYPE; Click on TOOLS; Then click on OPTIONS in the buttom; Click on Call Forwarding & Voicemail ( at the buttom ): In the Call Forwarding settings:  make a mark and add your phone number  ( remember 00 in front )

 

Each time an incoming call reaches you this way you automatically pay a small amount from your Skype account.

 

But it means that people can ALWAYS call you on Skype even if you are not anywhere near your computer J

 

14.   You can also get a SKYPE Voice Mail ( answering machine ), where people under all circumstances can leave you a message

 

15.   SKYPE-IN:   You can through Skype also buy a normal telephone number in another country than where you live. They call it an on-line number, because the call to you goes via the internet.  This is possible in the following countries in Europe:

 

      UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Malta, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Ireland, Netherlands, and Romania.     More to come.

 

And you can also buy such local numbers in the following countries outside Europe:  US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, Chile and Mexico.

 

 This makes it possible for your friends and contacts in those countries (if they do not use SKYPE ) to call you on this number and only pay local phone price. And you will receive their call on SKYPE. This service will cost you  50 € per year per number. Independently of how much it is used. This service is called SKYPE IN.  I have myself such a number in Denmark:  3698 0830

 

 

16.   If you don’t like sitting near your computer, when you want to SKYPE somebody, you can buy a wireless phone, which works with SKYPE all over the house – and in your garden J   There are several products. Mine is called “Olympia”. It also works like a normal wireless phone.

 

17.   You don’t even need to open your computer to use SKYPE. You just buy one of the new WiFi portablephones, which work with SKYPE. One of the first came from the company “Netgear”. Mine is a “Belkin”. I am very satisfied with it.  You have to have a WiFi network to be able to use it. And you can use it on all Internet Hotspots and everywhere, where you one way or the other can get access to a WiFi network.  All at no cost.

 

 

 

 

 

               

          So – dear friends:  WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ??

        

          Get all these advantages by downloading SKYPE for free and very easily - NOW:

 

                                                         www.skype.com   

 

          Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

 

          SKYPE name:  kimbrer                 e-mail:   kimbrer@gmail.com  

 

 

          www.Niels-Jorgen-Thogersen.dk   

 

VOIP-telephony (Voice over the Internet Protocol) has taken off over the last few years.  It has grown immensely word-wide. And apart from it is free or very, very cheap it has a number of additional advantages too.

My personal experience is based on SKYPE.

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Install the free SKYPE programme on your computer

 

 

Do you want to call people almost anywhere in the world for free?

 

Then download the free programme SKYPE to your computer:   http://www.skype.com/

 

When the programme is installed (it’s very easy and very fast) you can chatand talk to everybody, who has also downloaded SKYPE.  We are more than 100 million happy SKYPE users worldwide today. And many more join us every day.

 

Your chat (in writing) with other SKYPE users is done on the screen. You click on: Start a chat – and you can then enjoy chatting with your friend or contact – perhaps on the other side of the world.

 

If you want to talk – and to be able to hear what your friend says – then you have to buy a headset (you get a very good one for 20 €). The headset has to have earphones and a microphone. You ask for a headset to link to your sound card or to your USB connection (normally the best solution). Some new computers (or laptops) do not even need a headset, as they have a microphone as well as a loudspeaker built into the computer.

 

If you also want to see the people you talk to and to let them see you, you should buy a small webcamera. It costs about 50 €.  Buy one which you can connect via USB.  The video and the sound work best, if you have a broadband connection to the Internet (ADSL, ISDN, cable, etc.). You can always stop the video, if you don’t want to use it.

 

 

SKYPE also has a service called SKYPE OUT. When you launch that function (inside the SKYPE programme) you are able to call almost any normal fixed phone around the world. And it will in most cases cost you only 0,017 €cents per minute  ( approx. 13 øre ). To anywhere in the world.

 

You can also call mobile phones from SKYPE OUT. It will cost more, but MUCH less than calling from normal phones.

 

The Skype programme also has an on-line “phone book” with all Skype users around the world. Click on the button “Search for Skype Users”, write the name you want to find – and the system tells you within seconds, if the person is a subscriber or not.

 

You might say: I don’t want to sit in front of my PC or laptop, when I talk on the phone. No problem. Then you just have to buy aspecial DualPhone, which you link to your PC or laptop (and also to your normal phone line, if you want to). Then you can talk on SKYPE and SKYPE OUT anywhere in a reasonable distance from your PC or laptop (which has to be kept open, while you talk). The phone is called Dual Phone, because you can also use it as a normal phone.

 

Read more about this Dual Phone on:   http://www.dualphone.net/  

 

In the very near future you can also buy a WiFi Skype phone ( from Netgear and others ). It will give you the possibility to use the Skype services WITHOUT having your computer turned on. You just need to be inside an open WiFi zone – at home or anywhere.

 

Read more here:  http://tools.netgear.com/skype/   

 

Finally, you can now also send SMS messages from Skype. It’s very cheap. And very easy.

 

I am myself a very happy SKYPE and SKYPE OUT user. My SKYPE name is:  kimbrer

 

Join in – and let me know when you are connected!

PS: And one more great advantage:  You can via Skype via the conference call talk to up to a hundred people. And you can also transfer files while you are talking.

SKYPE:            www.skype.com 

Another VOIP-service:

MyWebCalls:    www.mywebcalls.com

And more in general about VOIP:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP 

VOIP will very soon also be available on mobile phones.  The E series and the upper end of the N-series of Nokia phones have WiFi support.

This means that VOIP-services can ran on these phones, when you are inside a hotspot or another open WiFi area - without opening your computer.

Netgear already has such a phone spcifically made for SKYPE.

You can make life easy for people who want to call you - and call you for free.

You can put a button with a SKYPE link on your web-site: SKYPE ME.

This is one ofthe reasons why eBay bought SKYPE some time ago. They have a SKYPE me botton on their websites.

This could also be the case f.ex. in EUROPE DIRECT, on government websites (if you want people to call) or on any other website.