{"id":87614090,"date":"2006-08-23T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614090"},"modified":"2006-08-23T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T19:29:09","slug":"hullo-voice-over-ip-for-folks-who-dont-have-highspeed-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614090","title":{"rendered":"Hullo &#8211; Voice-Over-IP for folks who don&#8217;t have highspeed connections."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how long they&#8217;ll keep it free, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hullo.com\">www.hullo.com<\/a> has released a beta of their foray into the VOIP arena.  You can give it all of your phone numbers (I&#8217;m just waiting to see if they start spamming me with marketing calls or something), and you can dial out to land lines for free (for now, at least).<\/p>\n<p>The UI isn&#8217;t TOO attrocious, either:<a title=\"Click here to go to Hullo's site.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hullo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"433\" alt=\"hullo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/hullo.jpg\" width=\"225\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One major difference in the way it works though:<\/p>\n<p>BOTH parties are phoned by the system when you place a call.<\/p>\n<p>So, if I&#8217;m calling you from Hullo, I punch in your number in the program and hit connect.<\/p>\n<p>My phone rings.  I answer.<\/p>\n<p>Your phone rings.  You answer.<\/p>\n<p>See what&#8217;s different?<\/p>\n<p>The computer doesn&#8217;t handle the VOIP traffic &#8211; it only deals with the call management.  We BOTH get to use our &#8220;real&#8221; phones.<\/p>\n<p>It also does neat things like let you switch from a call at your desk to a cel without having to do the &#8220;let me call you right back&#8221; thing.<\/p>\n<p>Very cool.  Free, for now.<\/p>\n<p>No more wearing those goofy-looking headsets.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the Caller-ID comes from Quebec, so this might not work in all areas, but it is pretty neat for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how long they&#8217;ll keep it free, but www.hullo.com has released a beta of their foray into the VOIP arena. You can give it all of your phone numbers (I&#8217;m just waiting to see if they start spamming me with marketing calls or something), and you can dial out to land lines for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hardware","category-places","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}