How to Use Call Features in Yahoo! Messenger

1. Sign up for Yahoo! Messenger Phone out service. You do not need to sign up for any services to make PC to PC calls, but you'll need to sign up to make PC to phone calls. To sign up, go to the Yahoo! Voice website and choose 'Phone Out' from the menu. You'll need to purchase prepaid credit at the site.
2. Get equipment. In order to make calls with Yahoo! Messenger, you will need a microphone and headset connected to your computer.
3. Run set-up. When your service and equipment are in place, choose 'Call Setup' from the Actions menu. Setup verifies that your equipment is working.
4. Place a PC to PC call. To call a Yahoo! Messenger contact's computer for free, choose 'Call Computer' from the action menu. Then, select the contact and click on the Call button. Your contact needs to be signed in to Yahoo! Messenger for this to work.
5. Call a cell phone or landline phone. Choose 'Call a Phone Number' from the action menu. Then, enter the phone number and click on the Call button. Rates vary depending on what country you call.
6. Acquire a dedicated Yahoo! Messenger phone number so you can receive phone calls from anywhere, from anyone, anytime you are signed into Yahoo! Messenger. To sign up, choose 'Phone In' from the Yahoo! Voice website. There is a monthly charge for a Yahoo! Messenger phone number.

How to Print Text Messages Off of Your Galaxy S III

Software Option
1. Download BackupTrans Software’s “Android SMS + MMS Transfer” software (see Resources). This software extracts SMS and MMS messages from any Android device and stores them for backup on your PC. With the free software, you can view and transfer a limited number of text messages; with the licensed version ($29 as of August 2013), you can transfer unlimited texts on up to three devices.
2. Connect your Galaxy S3 to your computer using the provided miniUSB cable, wait for your computer to recognize the device and then launch Android SMS + MMS Transfer. The software will scan your drive and create a list of items that it can sync to your computer; the first time you connect the Galaxy, this process may take a few minutes.
3. Click on “Galaxy S3” under the list of devices in the left-hand panel of the software. Select the messages you want to print from the list, click “File” and choose “Print SMS and MMS.” Select your printer and confirm the print settings (using the visual print preview) and then click “Print.”
App Option
4. Press the “Home” button on the Galaxy S3 and swipe your phone to unlock it. Tap the “Google Play” icon to open the application market. You need to be connected to the Internet to download apps, so make sure your phone has either a 4G or Wi-Fi connection. Search for “PrinterShare Mobile Print.” Tap “Install” to download and install the software.
5. Connect your phone to Wi-Fi, if it isn't already, and ensure that your printer is turned on. Both the printer and the phone need to be on the same wireless network in order for PrinterShare Mobile Print to work properly. Tap the app to open it and wait while it searches the network for the printer.
6. Tap “Messages” to open your SMS and MMS messages in PrinterShare. Select a conversation that you wish to print and then choose your printer from the list or tap “Nearby – WiFi” to select the closest wireless printer available. Additionally, you can print to a Bluetooth or USB printer using the Samsung miniUSB to connect to the printer. With the free version of the software, you can print up to 20 pages. After that, you need to buy PrinterShare Premium Key for $13 through Google Play.
Manual Method
7. Tap 'Messages' on your phone to view the text messages and then click on a conversation with messages you want to print. Tap and hold on any of the speech bubbles and then tap 'Copy message text.'
8. Press the 'Home' button to return to your Home screen and then tap 'Email' to open the email app. Compose a new message to yourself and then tap and hold in the body of the message and press 'Paste.' Repeat these two steps until all of the messages you want to print are in the email body. Tap 'Send.'
9. Open the email on any computer connected to a printer and then click 'File,' and choose 'Print' in your Web browser. The formatting of the text messages may not be perfect from the copying-and-pasting, so you may wish to copy these texts into a word processor before printing.

How Do I Send a Text Message to a Cell Phone Without Having a Cell Phone?

Using a Texting Website
1. Go to a text-messaging website such as Onlinetextmessage.com, Txt2day.com or Textforfree.net.
2. Enter the mobile number of the intended recipient of your text message, the wireless carrier for that cellphone, your email address, the message you want to send and any other information requested by the website. Click 'Send' or the equivalent button.
3. Review any special offers or other information displayed on the page that appears after the text message has been sent. The website might ask you to try a subscription to its services. You don't have to sign up if the website offers free texting. Your message should have already gone through if you clicked 'Send' in the preceding step.
Using Skype
4. Install Skype on your computer if you do not have it. Go to Skype.com, roll your cursor over the 'Get Skype' tab, select your operating system and click 'Download Skype.' Follow the installation instructions.
5. Add contacts you would like to text message. When you first open Skype, the program will ask if you want to add contacts from your email addresses or social networking service, so you can do that if you wish. You can also search for contacts on Skype or create new ones. Make sure that the contacts you would like to text have cellphone numbers in their profiles. To do this, click on the contact, select the 'Mobile' tab, click 'Add a phone number' and enter the 10-digit number.
6. Add credit to your Skype account. Skype will deduct a few cents from your balance every time you send a text. You can 'Buy Skype Credit now' on your Skype home screen; simply have a contact highlighted and click on the 'Mobile' tab. The link will be at the bottom of the screen. You can also add credit to your account by clicking 'Add credit.' Follow the prompts and enter the appropriate information to add credit.
7. Write a text by highlighting a contact on your Skype home screen, selecting the 'Mobile' tab and writing your message in the box at the bottom of the screen. Click on the bubble to the right of the text box to send your message.

How to Get Free Phone Service

1. Many voip providers allow free computer to computer calls. We are going to link such a service to a free phone number so that we aren't limited to only pc to pc calls, but have a real phone number to receive calls for free. To do this, we must first sign up with a free basic voip provider. Here are a few:
Voxalot
Gizmo
Free World Dialup (no longer free as of 08/08)
2. Next, we must get our free phone number and route it to our voip service. Here are two examples of providers who offer this service, sign up for one of them:
ipkall.com
freedigits.com
During sign up, you will need to provide a sip number and sip proxy.
To route the phone number to our voip service, use your member id that you received in step 1, as your sip number. The sip proxy is provided also provided to you during step 1, enter it in the sip proxy field.
Here are the sip proxies for some common voip providers:
Voxalot - us.voxalot.com
FWD - fwd.pulver.com
Gizmo - proxy01.sipphone.com
3. Now that we have a free phone number and a free voip service, we have to configure our softphone or analog telephone adapter to register with our voip provider. A softphone is software that allows us to make calls on our pc, X-lite is one example and it is free. An analog telephone adapter is a hardware version of the same thing.
Go to the configuration menu of your softphone or ata and enter the same sip proxy you used in step 2, in your softphone sip proxy field. Enter your user name and password. For additional help configuring your sip device, see the resources section below.
4. After step 3 your softphone or ata will be registered with your voip provider, which is in turn registered with your free phone number. When someone calls you it is routed like this:
Ipkall -> forwards the call to your free voip provider -> sends the call to the device (softphone or ata) configured to receive it.
You can now receive totally free phone calls!

How to Get a Free iPhone

1. Sign up for free product offers. There are several websites that offer the option of signing up to receive free products. Although there are often a few more steps to actually getting your free iPhone, signing up is the first step towards receiving your free iPhone.
2. Learn how free operations work. Often you are able to get a free iPhone by referring people to certain websites. By offering referrals, advertisers pay money which in turn gets you your free phone. Learn what you will need to do in order to get your free iPhone.
3. Enter a contest. Besides online websites that offer you a free phone when you sign up with their services, there are also websites that are running contesting for a free phone. Test your luck by entering these contests if you don’t want to sign up through another site.
4. Trade in your old phone. Depending on the condition and model of your current phone, you may be able to trade it in for a new, free phone. You may have to sign a new contract, but you could get a free iPhone out of the deal.
5. Check for offers from the Apple store. Depending on the promotion at the time, it is possible to get a free iPhone from the Apple store. By purchasing another product, Apple may give you a free iPhone so be on the lookout for these type of deals.

How to Sign up on Chikka

1. Visit the chikka.com home page and fill in the fields in the 'Sign up for free!' section. These include country, mobile phone and email. The mobile phone entry is not mandatory and this field can be bypassed by selecting the 'No Mobile Phone' box.
2. Check the email inbox of the account used in the first step for a verification email from Chikka. Open the email and click on the link to verify the email address.
3. Check the email inbox again after completing the email verification for a new email from Chikka containing the new Chikka ID and password.The account setup is now complete and available for sending free SMS messages.

Where to Find a Completely Free Person Search

WhitePages.com
WhitePages.com is one of the largest online databases, allowing you to search for any person or business. Simply type in the person's last name, along with optional first name, city, and/or state the person might be living in. Results will typically show the name, address and phone number of the person you're searching for. WhitePages.com also offers an 'advanced search' option allowing you to type in just the first few letters of the person's last name and/or first name. This is especially convenient when you are unsure how to spell the person's name who you are trying to find. You can also use WhitePages.com to search for a business or even do a reverse search, which allows you to type in a phone number or street address and find out the name of the person associated with that phone number or address.
Addresses.com
Addresses.com allows you to search for a person's address, phone number and email address. On the main page, there are options for all of the above options. Simply type in the person's name, and matching results will be displayed. Reverse phone searches and business searches are also available through Addresses.com.
Yahoo People Search
Yahoo People Search also allows you to search for people for free. Visit their website, people.yahoo.com, and type in the person's name using the phone and address search option or the email search option. Reverse phone number searches are also available at no charge.
SuperPages.com
SuperPages.com is another free online service, allowing you to search for contact information on people and businesses. Simply click on the 'people' tab on the SuperPages homepage, and type in the person's last name and optional first name. Results will display the closest matches.
Search Engines
Although the above websites search their own databases for matches to your search criteria, search engines such as Google scour the entire Internet, looking for websites that contain the search criteria that you provide. This is another free service and very helpful when the above options do not turn up the information you are looking for.