Google has recently announced phone calls free within Canada and USA. This is done through your gmail account ( as seen below)
GoogleGoogle Voice inside Gmail
Internet-based phone service is not new. Skype has been around for years. Skype lets Americans talk to each other free of charge, or for a mere few pennies per minute for long distance.
Wednesday, Google started rolling out Internet phone service. The Google Phone interface is built into the Gmail interface. Google promotes it as a fallback feature for Gmail’s video chat system, just in case the other party isn’t sitting in front of a computer. It is not just for your video chat partners though, it is for use anytime!
Google Phone works like this: A new button is added to the Gmail interface, called 'Call Phones'. It launches a small window with a telephone-style keypad, or simply use the digit box to enter a name or a phone number. If they are a gmail contact, their number will come up from you Gmail address book.
To use the google phone feature, you need to install a plug-in for your browser from Google. Fortunately, it works with all the popular web browers - including Apple’s Safari on Macs.
Google Phone usee your computer’s built-in microphone and speakers, (or USB headset)Once you’ve installed the Google Phone plug-in, and configured your computer to use the audio hardware, making a call is easy.
The person you are calling will see the caller ID 760-705-8888, which is Google's network. You may use Google Voice service and setup a Non-Google Voice number as well. Google Voice gives you a Google-assigned number so Google can handle your incoming calls and voicemail. You will need to sign up with Google Voice if you want to receive calls within Gmail. Like Skype, Google’s prices are hard to beat, best of all, calls within the United States and Canada are free. Calls to other countries average around two cents a minute. Google has posted its rates for each country. (77 cents a minute for calls to North Korea.)
if you're lookign for some free Windows 7 software, the website 'give away of the day' offers daily freebies from many software companies. These are not trial or limited versions of software, but fully working versions with license keys. The developers offers these to the members and visitors simply for the asking.
The giveaway of the day website has many sections, so for Windows 7 freebies, look here
You can subscribe to their RSS feed, add their application on facebook and even on twitter as well. If you have a blog, you can add their widget to be apprised of the daily list of freebies.
Aha-Soft announces the release of Perfect Office Icons, a royalty-free collection of stock icons for office and application developers.
Perfect Office Icons are the perfect choice for busy office developers. Providing over two hundred images assembled into a set with matching properties such as colors, gamma and style, Perfect Office Icons can be used in office applications and scripts, stand-alone text editors, as well as on blogs, forums, and Web sites. Perfect Office Icons will make an application, Web site or applet look professional and consistent throughout. All images in the Perfect Office Icons collection are royalty-free. The entire collection is immediately available and comes with a full-size preview.
What's Inside
The collection of Perfect Office Icons includes images that are likely to be used in office applications, text editors, and online publishing mechanisms. Icons like Open and Save, Print, Flip and Rotate, Cut, Copy and Paste, MS Word, Text, Spreadsheet, Send and Receive, Page Number, Edit and Clear, and many others are included.
From the technical standpoint, the collection includes images in a variety of formats, sizes, color resolutions, and image styles. Each and every image from the collection comes in sizes of 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 32x32, and 48x48 pixels. Normal, disabled, and highlighted states are included for every icon. 256-color and semi-transparent True Color versions are provided. Perfect Office Icons are delivered in Windows Icon (ICO), Bitmap (BMP), GIF and PNG formats for easy integration with every application. The entire collection of 406 office icons is available for only $129.95.
About the Company
Founded in 2000, Aha-Soft offers a variety of software tools and ready-made icons to webmasters and software developers worldwide. The company manufactures tools for designing, editing, organizing and publishing icons and small graphics, and provides a wide range of ready-made, royalty-free icons. The company offers thousands of tastefully designed and individually crafted icons. All images are available a-la carte or assembled to matching sets. Custom icon design services are available by request.
Rarely is it easy to find useful and free computer utilities and pc software that is actually worthy of becoming a regular tool in your computer repair toolbox. In this example Hiren's Boot CD 10.6 actually is probably one of the best all encompassing PC utilities CD. If you have never heard of it - then you rteally need to download it and burn it to cd. You'll be amazed just how useful it really is!
How many times have you wished there was a faster way to complete a task, or find a program, without needing to search the windows xp programs menu? I'll bet it runs in the thousands. Well fortunately windows xp has still some remnants of it's MD-DOS foundation. Windows XP still in fact does have command line programs. Below are the most common, listed alphabetically. S9ome you will learn to love, and many your will memorize.
An A-Z Index of the Windows XP command line
ADDUSERS Add or list users to/from a CSV file
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASSOC Change file extension associations•
ASSOCIAT One step file association
ATTRIB Change file attributes
b
BOOTCFG Edit Windows boot settings
BROWSTAT Get domain, browser and PDC info
c
CACLS Change file permissions
CALL Call one batch program from another•
CD Change Directory - move to a specific Folder•
CHANGE Change Terminal Server Session properties
CHKDSK Check Disk - check and repair disk problems
CHKNTFS Check the NTFS file system
CHOICE Accept keyboard input to a batch file
CIPHER Encrypt or Decrypt files/folders
CleanMgr Automated cleanup of Temp files, recycle bin
CLEARMEM Clear memory leaks
CLIP Copy STDIN to the Windows clipboard.
CLS Clear the screen•
CLUSTER Windows Clustering
CMD Start a new CMD shell
COLOR Change colors of the CMD window•
COMP Compare the contents of two files or sets of files
COMPACT Compress files or folders on an NTFS partition
COMPRESS Compress individual files on an NTFS partition
CON2PRT Connect or disconnect a Printer
CONVERT Convert a FAT drive to NTFS.
COPY Copy one or more files to another location•
CSCcmd Client-side caching (Offline Files)
CSVDE Import or Export Active Directory data
d
DATE Display or set the date•
DEFRAG Defragment hard drive
DEL Delete one or more files•
DELPROF Delete NT user profiles
DELTREE Delete a folder and all subfolders
DevCon Device Manager Command Line Utility
DIR Display a list of files and folders•
DIRUSE Display disk usage
DISKCOMP Compare the contents of two floppy disks
DISKCOPY Copy the contents of one floppy disk to another
DISKPART Disk Administration
DNSSTAT DNS Statistics
DOSKEY Edit command line, recall commands, and create macros
DSACLs Active Directory ACLs
DSAdd Add items to active directory (user group computer)
DSGet View items in active directory (user group computer)
DSQuery Search for items in active directory (user group computer)
DSMod Modify items in active directory (user group computer)
DSMove Move an Active directory Object
DSRM Remove items from Active Directory
e
ECHO Display message on screen•
ENDLOCAL End localisation of environment changes in a batch file•
ERASE Delete one or more files•
EVENTCREATE Add a message to the Windows event log
EXIT Quit the current script/routine and set an errorlevel•
EXPAND Uncompress files
EXTRACT Uncompress CAB files
f
FC Compare two files
FIND Search for a text string in a file
FINDSTR Search for strings in files
FOR /F Loop command: against a set of files•
FOR /F Loop command: against the results of another command•
FOR Loop command: all options Files, Directory, List•
FORFILES Batch process multiple files
FORMAT Format a disk
FREEDISK Check free disk space (in bytes)
FSUTIL File and Volume utilities
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTYPE Display or modify file types used in file extension associations•
g
GLOBAL Display membership of global groups
GOTO Direct a batch program to jump to a labelled line•
GPUPDATE Update Group Policy settings
h
HELP Online Help
i
iCACLS Change file and folder permissions
IF Conditionally perform a command•
IFMEMBER Is the current user in an NT Workgroup
IPCONFIG Configure IP
k
KILL Remove a program from memory
l
LABEL Edit a disk label
LOCAL Display membership of local groups
LOGEVENT Write text to the NT event viewer
LOGOFF Log a user off
LOGTIME Log the date and time in a file
m
MAPISEND Send email from the command line
MBSAcli Baseline Security Analyzer.
MEM Display memory usage
MD Create new folders•
MKLINK Create a symbolic link (linkd)
MODE Configure a system device
MORE Display output, one screen at a time
MOUNTVOL Manage a volume mount point
MOVE Move files from one folder to another•
MOVEUSER Move a user from one domain to another
MSG Send a message
MSIEXEC Microsoft Windows Installer
MSINFO Windows NT diagnostics
MSTSC Terminal Server Connection (Remote Desktop Protocol)
MUNGE Find and Replace text within file(s)
MV Copy in-use files
n
NET Manage network resources
NETDOM Domain Manager
NETSH Configure Network Interfaces, Windows Firewall & Remote access
NETSVC Command-line Service Controller
NBTSTAT Display networking statistics (NetBIOS over TCP/IP)
NETSTAT Display networking statistics (TCP/IP)
NOW Display the current Date and Time
NSLOOKUP Name server lookup
NTBACKUP Backup folders to tape
NTRIGHTS Edit user account rights
o
OPENFILES Query or display open files
p
PATH Display or set a search path for executable files•
PATHPING Trace route plus network latency and packet loss
PAUSE Suspend processing of a batch file and display a message•
PERMS Show permissions for a user
PERFMON Performance Monitor
PING Test a network connection
POPD Restore the previous value of the current directory saved by PUSHD•
PORTQRY Display the status of ports and services
POWERCFG Configure power settings
PRINT Print a text file
PRNCNFG Display, configure or rename a printer
PRNMNGR Add, delete, list printers set the default printer
PROMPT Change the command prompt•
PsExec Execute process remotely
PsFile Show files opened remotely
PsGetSid Display the SID of a computer or a user
PsInfo List information about a system
PsKill Kill processes by name or process ID
PsList List detailed information about processes
PsLoggedOn Who's logged on (locally or via resource sharing)
PsLogList Event log records
PsPasswd Change account password
PsService View and control services
PsShutdown Shutdown or reboot a computer
PsSuspend Suspend processes
PUSHD Save and then change the current directory•
q
QGREP Search file(s) for lines that match a given pattern.
r
RASDIAL Manage RAS connections
RASPHONE Manage RAS connections
RECOVER Recover a damaged file from a defective disk.
REG Registry: Read, Set, Export, Delete keys and values
REGEDIT Import or export registry settings
REGSVR32 Register or unregister a DLL
REGINI Change Registry Permissions
REM Record comments (remarks) in a batch file•
REN Rename a file or files•
REPLACE Replace or update one file with another
RD Delete folder(s)•
RMTSHARE Share a folder or a printer
ROBOCOPY Robust File and Folder Copy
ROUTE Manipulate network routing tables
RUNAS Execute a program under a different user account
RUNDLL32 Run a DLL command (add/remove print connections)
s
SC Service Control
SCHTASKS Schedule a command to run at a specific time
SCLIST Display NT Services
SET Display, set, or remove environment variables•
SETLOCAL Control the visibility of environment variables•
SETX Set environment variables permanently
SFC System File Checker
SHARE List or edit a file share or print share
SHIFT Shift the position of replaceable parameters in a batch file•
SHORTCUT Create a windows shortcut (.LNK file)
SHOWGRPS List the NT Workgroups a user has joined
SHOWMBRS List the Users who are members of a Workgroup
SHUTDOWN Shutdown the computer
SLEEP Wait for x seconds
SLMGR Software Licensing Management (Vista/2008)
SOON Schedule a command to run in the near future
SORT Sort input
START Start a program or command in a separate window•
SU Switch User
SUBINACL Edit file and folder Permissions, Ownership and Domain
SUBST Associate a path with a drive letter
SYSTEMINFO List system configuration
t
TASKLIST List running applications and services
TASKKILL Remove a running process from memory
TIME Display or set the system time•
TIMEOUT Delay processing of a batch file
TITLE Set the window title for a CMD.EXE session•
TLIST Task list with full path
TOUCH Change file timestamps
TRACERT Trace route to a remote host
TREE Graphical display of folder structure
TYPE Display the contents of a text file•
u
USRSTAT List domain usernames and last login
v
VER Display version information•
VERIFY Verify that files have been saved•
VOL Display a disk label•
w
WHERE Locate and display files in a directory tree
WHOAMI Output the current UserName and domain
WINDIFF Compare the contents of two files or sets of files
WINMSD Windows system diagnostics
WINMSDP Windows system diagnostics II
WMIC WMI Commands
x
XCACLS Change file and folder permissions
XCOPY Copy files and folders
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