Email and Gmail

Filed under ‘new and cool things you can do with your computer’ Google has rolled out an improvement to Gmail voice and video chat that lets you call regular phones (with your headset/microphone).

Call Phones in Gmail

According to Robin Schriebman a Google Software Engineer:

Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates. We worked hard to make these rates really cheap (see comparison table) with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute.

Just click the new “Call phone” button ion your chat window, and search contacts or dial a number on the keypad window and you can start enjoying this new feature.

You can also get phone calls in Gmail (just click the link to see how)!

Wow, I just noticed this new access multiple accounts in one browser feature at the end of my lunch and had to write a a quick bit about it. First, a message from our sponsor (lol). But seriously here’s an interesting quote from Macduff Hughes’ post on the Gmail blog…

Now, you can visit google.com/accounts and click the link next to “Multiple sign-in.” After you sign into your first account, you can sign in with up to two additional accounts from the new accounts menu in the upper right hand corner of Gmail, then easily toggle back and forth between them. You can even open multiple Gmail tabs — one for each of your accounts.
- Gmail Blog, Access two Gmail accounts at once in the same browser

I’ve got to check this out more later and add more – its such an exciting feature with possibilities. One caution, read the Gmail post because access via one browser to multiple accounts is not working universally yet and the post lists these exceptions and notes.