Bargain Moose

Did you know that Gmail recently launched a new VOIP (voice over IP) service?

Well, they did! It’s called Google Voice. And now you know.

• Click here for more info @ Google Voice

And here’s the juicy bit – you can use it to call phones in the US and Canada for free!!! You can call other countries as well, but there are international charges. I usually use Skype but I might price compare with the new rates from Google, because I make a few international calls to rellies overseas.

The technical requirements are the following: Requires Windows XP+ / Mac OS X 10.4+ / Linux. I think most of us are using Windows XP or above nowadays.

There is also a free guide to Gmail which you can download here.

Thanks to ytang3!

Tradepub is offering you guys a free guide to gmail, the free online email service from google.

• Click here to order your free Gmail guide

I use a few gmail accounts for different purposes, I think they’re really handy. For example, I have one “junk” account, which I have signed up to a million email newsletters, so I can search them for good deals for my moosers. I have another account for personal use, and not very many people know the address of that one. And I have a third account which I use when I am registering with a site and making a specific purchase. And of course, I have my Bargainmoose account which many of you guys use to send me brilliant offers.

There are a number of things I like about gmail… I am comparing to yahoo, which is another email provider which I use.

Firstly, I like how consecutive emails from one person are arranged like a conversation, so you can just scroll up and down to see what you have been conversing about.

I am a big fan of the “filters” in gmail. You can specify some terms, and gmail will mark the incoming mail with certain colours or text.

Also, I like how it has a “forwarding” option – Yahoo doesn’t have this. I can set an account to forward all incoming mail to other accounts if necessary.