VoIP

Free phone calls with Skype

Remember when you had to make a redbox to get free phone calls? Well, Skype now has free phone calls to any landline and mobile phone in the USA & Canada until 2007. Just install Skype and that’s it – There are going to be a ton of phone projects with this soon! (Pictured here, […]

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HOW TO – Palm TX external headset mic mod

HOW TO – Palm TX external headset mic mod

PalmInfocenter member twrock has posted images and details about his external headset mod for the Palm TX. He added a smaller 2.5 mm headphone/mic port to his TX in an external adapter that connects to the athena hotsync port. He intends to use it for voice recording and for future Palm OS VoIP applications. Link.

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HOW TO: Portable Skype – Run Skype from your iPod

HOW TO: Portable Skype – Run Skype from your iPod

Ablaka writes – “There has been quite a bit of buzz recently surrounding so-called “portable apps”. Portable storage devices such as USB flash sticks (and to a lesser extend, micro HD drives) are dropping rapidly in price/GB, so why just store stuff on them? There’s even an industry consortium to promote a standard to facilitate […]

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Hacking the FON router

Hacking the FON router

Steve writes – “I’ve just received my $25 Linksys WRT54GL from FON, as part of their promotion, and have gone through the code to find out how it phones home to let FON know it’s connected. The article I’ve linked to here is what I’ve found out – mainly that the router they supply sends […]

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Skype 5-way calling limit cracked

Skype 5-way calling limit cracked

Maxxuss of Apple Mac OS X on Intel fame is freeing more hardware and applications for all of us – Thanks to his patch Skype on AMD processors can now do 10-way calling. You see, there’s a limit to the number of participants you can if (5) unless you have an Intel processor (10) – […]

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Homemade water cooling for everyone

Homemade water cooling for everyone

Tom writes – “A guy in Croatia is hand-building a water cooling system for a PC, starting with a mockup render, then building a huge copper radiator from scratch. He’s just finished polishing the blocks for cooling the various chips.” Link. The copper work is amazing!

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