Google Voice + PhoneBooth + Skype + MagicJack + an iPhone

Posted by on Jun 2, 2010 in tech | 0 comments

This is the phone setup the I think is most flexible.

Having google voice is very very powerful. Having a fixed phone number tied to a number of hand held devices is great.
Because of google voice I was able to tie all of my phones into one places, my google voice number.

So when I am on the road, having Skype is great, calling customers.
(The 5115 everyman is the best headset on the market that works with Skype.)

These are the services I use for my phone setup, I think they are very very valuable

Configuring Skype with google voice is a bit tricky, you need to do the following:

I set skype to forward back to my Google number if I’m not on Skype, it works great, I disabled Skype voicemail so if I decline a call it goes to google voicemail and now with this change if my laptop is off and Skype is not running it still forwards to google voicemail.

This is the site that had the fix information.

The services that I use for VoIP are the following:
MagicJack

I found that there are a few

http://www.phonebooth.com/

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Podcasting & vPodcasting

Posted by on Feb 14, 2010 in music, video | 0 comments

For Video:
When recording your screen I highly recommend going with Jing or Camtasia Studio.

For Audio:
When creating podcasts, you need the right tools to record interviews, use VoIP, it is great because you can record your conversations and interviews with others using software and edit it the way you want. Two great VoIP services are Skype and MagicJack. Just as a side note you can import your google contacts into Skype.

If you go with Skype, the program is installed on Windows, MAC and Linux. Once installed you can use something called Call Recorder to your Mac to record Skype sessions. It costs $25 or so. Another option is pamela, which is great for recording Skype conversations as well.

A program called Levelator is used to make both ends of the conversation be equal in volume.

To produce your podcast a ton of people use Audacity, it is free. Another option for Mac users is Garage Band.

Here is a list of great recording apps .

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