Grandcentral open for Blogger users!!

Two days ago Grandcentral opened up its doors for Blogger users. All you need to do in order to get a Grandcentral account is to click on the Blogger invite link here and signup at Grandcentral. Please note that this offer is still available only to the US users, so, you know how to do ;) hint: proxy!! And you must also have a US based phone number to make use of the services. One trick is to have a free SIP forwarding number in USA if you are a VOIP user, or use a number like Skype-in, also there are many other providers in USA who provided free incoming numbers with their plan. With this method, you can make free calls within US and Canada too..

Enjoy!!

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GrandCentral from Google

Some of you might have heard about the new Grandcentral beta service from google. You need an invite to get in. Here is a demonstration of the service before it was taken over by Google.






If you are living in USA or Canada, you can make use of this service to its maximum potential. Its invite only, but they will provide you a login if you reserve a number and if you are lucky :) BTW, I got my invite through a site called http://www.siteinvites.com/. So, go ahead and register.

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Interests and Projects

Community Wireless Network in my small town.
* Complete Wireless roaming within the town and optional long links..
* Centralised AAA facilities. Single Sign-on to use any service available within network.

Inventry So Far
* 3 Pringles Cans (Empty now :))
* Couple of N-Female Radiators
* Couple of Pig tailes
* 2 Old computers ready to run on CF cards and act as gateways!, Pretty Solid, eh?

Yet to receive
* Nokia GPS Module LD-3W (Bluetooth), Bought it for mapping + antennae alignments.

Yet to Purchase
* A foundry L3 24 port Switch (Available for around $100 in ebay!)
* Parabolic Grid Antennae (Got a good source who can give it real cheap, around $20 a piece)
* A couple of old DTH antennae (Got some nice offers, Money!!, Damned Money!!)
* 3 WRT54GSs, Lost them to an eBay sniper (One day i will have them and these guys will be loaded with Freifunk)
* Intersil PRISM based wireless NICs for the PC based nodes. (This one is getting rare)


Voice Over IP services
* Free In-Network Calling using VOIP (SER)
* Cheap Unlimited Calling to more than 20 countries (200 Rupees PM for Primary Country and 50 Rupees PM for every additional countries) Planning to use Broadvoice and fwdOUT ;)
* A couple of X100P clones are waiting for me to have some spare money..


Partner in Crime > Sajith @ http://www.sajith.org

I need support for this project, Any one who are ready to put in their efforts are welcome.
Please donate your Old computers, Wireless routers to the project and we can make good use of them!

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