toro
join:2006-01-27
Scarborough, ON
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Re: Can someone explain Grand Central?
Another cool little feature I found with GC is the web call button. Basically you can put a button "Call me" on your web site, linked to your account. When someone clicks it, they will be prompted to enter their number, and GC will call both your number and theirs and connect your call. |
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hillsdalebob
join:2006-05-15
Hillsdale, MI
| I also like the web call button feature. If you don't have a web site you can just paste the link they give you for the web call button into an email, email it to all your friends, and when your friends click on the link in the email the same thing happens - a grand central web site will open in their browser asking for their phone number. When they enter in their phone number grand central will call them on that phone number and when they answer Grand Central will call you on your Grand Central number - connecting the two calls for FREE. |
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rmcclarty
join:2006-08-22
37700 | Based on your web call idea, one could include this "link" in their email signature at the bottom of each email. I have tried it but it really doesn't show as a link, more as web code and nothing happens when clicked? What am I doing wrong? |
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usenet1
@qwest.net
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First, let's clarify E-mail. These days, email comes in two varieties. *REAL* email, and then webmail.
To use REAL email, you must have an email client installed on your computer, like Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express, etc. These clients for real email have one advantage, among many others, of being capable of displaying HTML code natively.
Webmail, on the other hand, is a sorry substitute for the real thing, and only requires a web browser to connect and get your mail. MOST of the major providers of webmail prohibit the display of HTML code, first of all because of how lame and insecure Windows is, and because if HTML displays by default in the webmail, code nasties are propagated far too easily.
Therefore, if you include code on your email for webcalling, it might or MIGHT NOT display in the recipient's mail. If you KNOW FOR CERTAIN that your recipient uses real email, then no problem. If they use a webmail client, then odds are that they don't see what you think you sent. Webmail callback was really designed for WebPage use, but can be and is sometimes usable for email usage, subject to the above conditions.
Regards,
Valentin |
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hillsdalebob
join:2006-05-15
Hillsdale, MI
| Hmm, when I insert the code like: »embed.grandcentral.com/webcall/f···slkej876 into my yahoo email and send it to someone that uses yahoo it works. Obviously your link (the last part) will be different. You get the code when you set up a webcall button. |
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