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EvaPhone provides Internet telephone calls for free. This site offers free VoIP call solutions: free VoIP service lets you make PC-to-phone free international calls. All you need is a computer, a mic and a telephone number(Duh!) to start making free VoIP calls using Internet to phone.

The duration and number of calls is limited in time and per IP-address. No registration is needed for a free call.

You can check here for your country and limited time.

Simply dial the country code and the number where you want to call, no software downloads.

Visit EVAPHONE [at] http://evaphone.com/

Skype buttons can be used on your website, blog or even in your email signature to let other people contact you easily. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of you are on Skype, it’s free.

Intructions

Step 1: Login to Blogger dashboard then goto ‘Layout‘ –> ‘Edit HTML‘ –> ‘Page Elements‘ and Add a Gadget

Step 2: Add HTML/JavaScript

Step 3: Copy all the codes provided below and change YOUR SKYPE NAME highlighted in red to your Skype Name.

Step 4: After you add your Skype name, paste all codes in HTML/JavaScript and Save

Skype buttons

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/buttons/call_green_white_153x63.png" style="border: none;" width="153" height="63" alt="Skype Me™!" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/buttons/call_blue_white_124x52.png" style="border: none;" width="124" height="52" alt="Skype Me™!" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype button code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?add"><img src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/buttons/add_green_white_195x63.png" style="border: none;" width="195" height="63" alt="Add me to Skype" /></a><!-- Skype button code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

Skype buttons with Status

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/balloon/YOUR SKYPE NAME" style="border: none;" width="150" height="60" alt="My status" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/bigclassic/YOUR SKYPE NAME" style="border: none;" width="182" height="44" alt="My status" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/smallclassic/YOUR SKYPE NAME" style="border: none;" width="114" height="20" alt="My status" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/smallclassic/YOUR SKYPE NAME" style="border: none;" width="114" height="20" alt="My status" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

Enjoy your new button.

By Nadeem Unuth

Answer:
I myself don’t have a fixed way of saying it. So many people in the world pronounce it in so many different ways.

The most commong pronunciations are:

vee-oh-eye-pee (It’s like spelling it)
voyp (like in voice or void)
Voice over IP (that’s rather a phrase)
internet telephony (maybe that’s… evading acronyms)

There is no pronunciation that it more correct than the other, since English is a dynamic language to which certain words are added or changed on popular demand. I’m not sure whether VoIP has entered the dictionary yet, though.

‘Voyp’ (like in voice) and V.O.I.P (vee-oh-eye-pee like spelling it) are the most common pronunciations, but most of those who are not used to the technical term and who know the technology merely as one allowing to make phone calls over the Internet call it either ‘Internet Telephony’ or ‘Voice over the Internet’.

I myself am more at ease with vee-oh-eye-pee, like I say ess-kew-el (geek people normally say see-quel for SQL). I like it maybe because it is more faithful to what the letters represent. But at times of quick blabbering, I realize the importance of ‘voyp’ and ’see-quel’. So, for me, ‘voyp’ is quick and slang type and ‘vee-oh-eye-pee’ is more like ‘clean’ and pretentious language. But that’s only very subjective.

I feel that when an acronym gets a continuous pronunciation like a word (’voyp’), it is a sign of popularity and success.

Did you know the following are pronounced thus?

EBCDIC - eb-cee-dik
WSDL - wiz-dull
WYSIWYG - wi-zee-wig
GUI - goo-ee
ASCII - ass-kee

So, be at ease with ‘voyp’. Whichever way you say it, there still will be voice and IP in it!
The small ‘o’

Spelling VoIP is no big deal as it is an acronym of four letters. The only thing is that while the letters are in capital (like in all acronyms), the ‘o’ for ‘over’ is written in lower case. This is because it is a preposition, and you know how acronyms treat prepositions.

Back to pronunciation: my other daily language is French, so now I have to sort out how to say VoIP in French… whether ‘vé-oh-ee-pé’ or ‘vwap’!

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