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Monday, December 18, 2006
Literally. Everybody seems to be getting into the USB voip internet phone scene. Most of them look like a standard USB flash drive--tiny, rectangular; about as exciting as a pack of chewing gum. That also happens to harbor a bunch of proprietary voip softphone software tucked away between the foil wrappers, so I guess they're pretty exciting on the inside.
I love being able to take my voip programs and account information with me wherever I go. Plug the phone into the nearest available USB drive and your voip headset into the headphone and mic jacks and you're in business, without having to download or run any software on the machine you're using.
Anyway, I just turned my iPod into a USB voip phone and it got me thinking...why stop there? In fact, it should be even easier to pull off on a flash drive because you don't have to fool around with iTunes. Copy the programs you need to the USB drive of your choice and bam! Bob's your uncle; the one with a voip phone;-)
