Call any landline or mobile in the world for the local call cost or free!!

Ever wished you could call someone for free from anywhere in the world??
Well.. Now you can! So make use of it while it lasts!!

Here's How..

1. Create a jaxtr account..



1.1) Register a new account in jaxtr.
1.2) Verify your email address.
1.3) Add your phone number by selecting "Add/Remove phone" under Send calls to: dropdown. or click on the red "Add your phone".
1.4) You will now get a call from jaxtr.. enter the verification code given on screen when prompted.
1.5) Sometimes the call may get cut halfway but either way your phone will be verified.

P.S- Uncheck the Privacy Shield or you wont be able to get calls from anyone since it'll directly go to your Voicemail.

2. Now get your friend to do the same and add his phone number in a different jaxtr account..

3. Now call him using his link (www.jaxtr.com/username_of_friend)

4. jaxtr will call you and then call him so you wont be charged for the call! (as long as incoming is free..)

5. jaxtr will connect the two numbers this way only once after that a special local number is created.

Special local number will be of the country from where your friend is calling.Your friend can call you using that number by dialing at that number from his phone as many times as you want at the cost of local phone call. (for this you wont be charged any Jax)

Otherwise if a local number is not available as in the case of most 3rd world countries your special local number would be one in the US and thus you may use a free calling service (like iCall) and call the given US number for free!! (If your using an alternate to iCall please proceed to step 5.4)

Here's how to do it with iCall..



5.1) Download and install iCall.

5.2) Run iCall and click on the "Signup for your free account" button at the bottom of the iCall application.

5.3) Login to your iCall application.
5.4) Enter the "special number to reach your friend" on the dialpad and when the call connects and it says that it "cannot recognize your number" and to "enter your phone number" do so by entering the number you used to create the special link with your friend in jaxtr. (Please note that you have to add the country code) and whoosh.. your done!! :-)

Another founder of Facebook? A New Claim Emerges

Mark E. Zuckerberg is considered the founder of Facebook, the popular social networking Web site estimated to be worth upward of $1 billion has been accused of illegally using both the concept and source code from competing site Connectu.com. In November 2003, ConnectU engaged Mark Zuckerberg, then a sophomore at Harvard, to complete the computer programming for their website. Upon joining the ConnectU team, Zuckerberg was given full access to the website source code. Allegedly, Zuckerberg intentionally hampered the development of ConnectU while using code originally intended for ConnectU in the development of Facebook. But this is just old news!

Says the New York Times technology article that both parties seem to have forgotten Aaron J. Greenspan, yet another Harvard classmate. He says he was actually the one who created the original college social networking system, before either side in the legal dispute. And he has the e-mail messages to show it.

As a Harvard student in 2003 — six months before Facebook started and eight months before ConnectU went online — Mr. Greenspan established a simple Web service that he called houseSYSTEM. It was used by several thousand Harvard students for a variety of online college-related tasks. Mr. Zuckerberg was briefly an early participant.

An e-mail message, circulated widely by Mr. Greenspan to Harvard students on Sept. 19, 2003, describes the newest feature of houseSYSTEM, as “the Face Book,” an online system for quickly locating other students. The date was four months before Mr. Zuckerberg started his own site, originally “thefacebook.com.”

Later the two students, who both graduated in 2004, exchanged e-mail about their separate projects. When Mr. Greenspan asked what Mr. Zuckerberg was planning and suggested the two integrate their systems, Mr. Zuckerberg responded, a month before starting his own service:

I actually did think about integrating it into houseSYSTEM before you even suggested it, but I decided that it’s probably best to keep them separated at least for now.

So here is the big question.. Are his allegations true?

I’ve written a lot about Harvard’s motto being ‘veritas,’ and how uncomfortable I was when I discovered that Harvard actually didn’t abide by the ideals of truth at all times. But it’s a good motto. Possibly the best there is, because if you wait long enough, the truth will come out.

Says Mr. Greenspan recently in an instant message.

No more NBC television shows on Apple iTunes with near-immediate effect

Apple has announced that it is to stop selling NBC's TV shows on the iTunes Store, effective from the start of the new TV season this September. Apple announced yesterday that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online iTunes Store.

The New York Times was on the money when it said the reason for the cancellation revolved around NBC charging more for its shows: it turns out NBC wanted twice as much..

The move follows NBC’s decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes after Apple declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each NBC TV episode, which would have resulted in the retail price to consumers increasing to $4.99 per episode from the current $1.99. ABC, CBS, FOX and The CW, along with more than 50 cable networks, are signed up to sell TV shows from their upcoming season on iTunes at $1.99 per episode says the Apple press release yesterday.

We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase. We hope they will change their minds and offer their TV shows to the tens of millions of iTunes customers.

said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes.

TagCloud is getting sponsered

Since the launch in June of 2005, TagCloud has registered over fourteen thousand users, kept track of around 120,000 website feeds, and peaked at over 6 million page views a month. And guess what.. that's all been done on ONE SINGLE SERVER!!

See, like many other great inventions in the Web 2.0 world apparently they never thought their little prototype experiment would turn into something as big as what TagCloud has become. According to the founder John Herren

We've enjoyed hearing so much positive feedback from our users, and we've loved the attention from the big boys like TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Wired, and Search Engine Watch. We've appeared on several Web 2.0 "best of" lists. We even got a chapter devoted to us in Yahoo! Hacks. A few months back we spoke at Under the Radar, and even won a prize at the first ever Mashup Camp. Yes, we've even had some folks copy our idea for their own service.

But since lately many people have written to TagCloud frustrated that we haven't been able to keep up with the demand, and they've been correct. Thus the founder goes on to say..

It's time to roll up our sleeves and make our site meet its demand. We're happy to announce that we are now sponsored by iWeb Technologies, a hosting company in Montreal. We're delighted that this will give us some much needed head room to scale our service.

Did I mention that TagCloud is also *just* a weekend project, and that they don't make any cash from it? But enough horn-tooting.

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