Yoomba - Free Internet Voice Calling Via E-mail

I’d compare Yoomba to Skype, but without the registration part. I also also like to call it the Trillian, or the meebo of Internet voice calling.

Wouldn’t it be great if you can chat with your friends even if the network that their account belongs to is different from yours? Wouldn’t it be convenient to have a centralized communication platform where you can talk (or chat) with your friends from various e-mail networks such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL and Hotmail? For example, if you have a Yahoo! account and your friend only has a Google Account, how will you be able to communicate in real time? Chatting through e-mail will most likely be inconvenient. Thank goodness there’s Yoomba! Yoomba acts as a mediator between several e-mail networks so you can use your e-mail account to chat or make calls with your contacts. You simply have to type in an e-mal address in the Yoomba contacts field and you’re one step away to chatting or talking with that person. It’s that easy. No registration needed! I suggest you try it out.

Getting Started with Yoomba in 3 Easy Steps

1. Download the Yoomba application and install it: http://download.yoomba.com/YoombaSetup.exe
   
2. Activate your existing e-mail address so that it can be used on the Yoomba software.
   
   
3. Find a contact and begin talking (or chatting)!
   

Conditions/Reminders:

• Your contact needs to have Yoomba installed as well.
• Your contact should activate his/her e-mail address for Yoomba use.
• Voice calls require a microphone and a set of speakers, or a headset.
• When logging out for the first time, Yoomba will prompt you to change your password. Please do so and remember your password. (seems buggy at the moment)
• Yoomba is still in beta so expect a lot of bugs.

System Requirements

From the Yoomba FAQ page:

Yoomba works on Windows XP & Win2000. We support Outlook versions 2000 and higher, Internet explorer versions 5.5 and higher, and partially support Firefox. Mac and Linux are currently not supported, but Yoomba versions for these platforms are in the works.

Yoomba Help

Yoomba is the only open communications experience that allows you to talk through your email, for free, globally. Yoomba turns any email address into a phone and messenger. Yoomba has broken down the walls of communication between the existing closed group networks in the world of internet calling and messengers!

Yoomba allows email calling and email chat inside your Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, webmail and more! No searching or adding contacts, no registration, no need for a new email address, a new ID, or another phone number. No need to log in to multiple applications. All your contacts are immediately available for calling and chat.

To sum up: See an email address on your screen - call and chat with it - with a touch of a button.

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