Feb 06 2010
Skype Answer-phone now available!
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Leave us a message on our FREE Answer-phone! |
You should now see a couple of brand-new features appearing on the widget list to the left of the blog and the website. The most important is that we now have a free Answering Machine service using Skype! Skype doesn’t cost you anything to sign up for (go to Skype.com for a free account) and with a headset mic or other form of microphone you can make free phone-calls to other Skype users. |
Yes, I did say free! How do they make their money then? Well, I managed to find the answer in one of their FAQs. They make their money from their paid services, such as making Skype calls to ordinary land-lines or mobile phones. Ah – so that explains it 
All pretty cool, I thought – and apparently everybody in the US has been doing it for yonks, but how does that help us? We’re not always here or we are here and deep in work, but we also don’t want to miss any of your calls or messages. An answerphone would be great – and lo and behold, there is such a service available as an ‘extra’ on Skype! So, we’ve set one up for you to leave us a message for the show.
If you would rather make it just a personal message and not to be included in the show, just say ‘personal message’ or some such anywhere in your message and we won’t include it
The other voicemail widget that is still in the widget bar is still useful for those of you that don’t have or want Skype and yet still want to be able to use your phones to call us or send us a message from your computers. Unless you guys find it a complete waste of time/bandwidth (and do let us know), I’ll leave it there.
Podshow Players
| I’ve managed to resurrect the old SpringWidgets Podshow Player as well. I know a lot of you like to include this on your own websites and Spring Widgets are notoriously difficult to get the code from, so I’ve included the code on the Promote page so that you can grab it yourself.
There are also another two players there so you can choose one with the best look and feel for your site, and it is fascinating to watch them stop working on a seemingly random basis! I think the SpringWidgets and the Podcast Pickle ones are the most reliable. If you find any other players out there on the web that are doing a pretty good job, could you let me know and I’ll try and include them for you. Thank you |
Drop us an email anytime at garyandruth@celticmythpodshow.com – thank you
