John Sypin's Blog » Google Voice http://www.johnsypin.com Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:37:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Free calls in gmail. http://www.johnsypin.com/2010/08/25/free-calls-in-gmail/ http://www.johnsypin.com/2010/08/25/free-calls-in-gmail/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:40:58 +0000 John Sypin http://www.johnsypin.com/?p=5990 Continue reading →]]> Google Voice lets you manage all your phone communications and seamlessly make and receive calls on any of your existing phones. But what if you don’t have your phone with you? Or what if you’re in a place with poor cell phone reception, or you’re traveling internationally and don’t want to incur expensive roaming charges? Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your computer to make or receive calls?

Starting today you can use Gmail to receive or place Google Voice calls.

To get started, check the box next to Google Chat in your list of forwarding phones and the next time someone calls your Google Voice number, Gmail will notify you of an incoming call. You can take the call or even listen in as the caller leaves a message, in a single step right from your computer.

To make a call, just click the Call phone link in Gmail and enter any number or name from your address book.

All calls made from Gmail will display your Google Voice phone number as the outbound caller ID and all international calls will use your Google Voice calling credit and are offered at the same low Google Voice rates. We took great care to make sure that our rates are as low as possible. For those of you not as familiar with international calling rates, check out our comparison table.

Finally, check out this video:

We’re rolling out this feature to U.S. based Gmail users over the next few days, so you’ll be ready to get started once “Call Phones” shows up in your chat list (you will need to install the voice and video plug-in if you haven’t already). If you’re using Google Apps for your school or business, then you won’t see it quite yet. We’re working on making this available more broadly – so stay tuned!

For more information, visit gmail.com/call.

]]> http://www.johnsypin.com/2010/08/25/free-calls-in-gmail/feed/ 0 Bad sleeping habits http://www.johnsypin.com/2009/12/13/bad-sleeping-habits/ http://www.johnsypin.com/2009/12/13/bad-sleeping-habits/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:11:49 +0000 John Sypin http://www.johnsypin.com/?p=88 Continue reading →]]> It’s late and I am wide awake. Another night of being awake at 5am instead of just waking up I haven’t even started sleeping yet. Lately I have been going to bed around 10am and waking up about 1pm-3pm. No matter how hard I try I always end up being awake at night.

Anyone reading my blog that doesn’t have Google Wave or Google Voice contact me if you want a invite.  I have a few invites left.

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