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6 Skype Alternatives Offer New Services: Page 11 of 12



Jaxtr offers widgets that can be embedded on sites like MySpace and LinkedIn, giving your callers different options for contacting you..

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Jaxter delivers the flashiest icons to your MySpace page or blog (you can add your photo to your Jaxtr icon). Like Jajah and Jangle, Jaxtr rings both phones to connect a call.

You can add up to three phones to your Jaxtr account and select which one receives calls -- or send all calls to voicemail. You can set rules on contacts to accept calls, send them to voicemail, or block them entirely. Like Jangl, Jaxtr makes persistent links between the number you're calling from and the number you're calling to, so once you get a Jaxtr number for your party you can save it in your contacts and use it to call directly or text to.

This also means that you've got a no-cost route to your party's phone, because at least for the time being, Jaxtr is free, even for international calls (currently Jaxtr connects calls to 44 countries " the service just added India, Hong Kong, China, South Africa, Jamaica, and Russia). Your total minutes of talk time per month are limited, but text messaging is unlimited, though you have to do it from your phone " the Jaxtr Web site doesn't give you the capability to text your contacts from a browser.)