Free telephone number Montreal. Free Canada DID. Get a free phone number. Free fone

Possibly my final discovery for you in 2009 is http://www.freephoneline.ca. Here you can get a free Montreal number. The cool thing is you can set it up in followme mode and have it forwarded to the Canadian number of your choice. The second cool thing is you can call all of Canada for FREE. Or you can call globally unlimited for $14 a month. Check it out!

2010 ComunAuto

CommunAuto is a late find.
Basically it is like Bixi (boooo) for cars.
I have some friends who rate it highly

I will try it in 2010 and report back.
They reckon it costs $500 returnable membership, $500 anual fee and a further $500 in mileage costs...
So $1000 a year..sounds a lot? Well it includes gas and insurance. Insurance is $1000 a year at least anyway and gas maybe $1000 a year or more so it is not a lot is it? Checked on a saturday afternoon and there were 9 cars available within a 3 minute walk.
Unlike stupid bixi, (where is it now?), this is sensible and practical and a great scheme if you need a car occaisionally (shoping, going out etc)...

I'm a bit unsure on the parking thing and where you pick it up...but let's see.

For now here are the rates...seems similar to car rental prices but has advantage of local drop off and pick up and can be booked by the hour..Access to AB&C require the $500 deposit.

Free Phone Calls to Canada (or wherever)

This enables people to call you for the price of a local call from wherever they are (and often local calls are free)

What you will need.

1) a Voip account with a DID number, that means a telephone number that people can call you on, (see http://www.voip.ms/ voipbuzzer, voxalot, callcentric etc). Currently if you are in Montreal I can recommend http://www.voip.ms/ After some time you'll figure out why....


If you don't have one it will cost you $1.49 , yes that is one dollar forty nine cents per month...
(Top Voip.ms tip...pay by paypal and there is no tax on top)

Assuming you have all that sorted, (see previous post)

Step 1. Find the access code for your voip company..here


So for example if you type voip.ms in the provider name box then you get the following results


















which if you can't read it says *9783 for sip.us4.voip.ms

this is the New York server.

Step 2. Register your DID to the new york server sip.us4.voip.ms (if you are in Montreal with voip.ms)

Step 3. Find the local phone number for your friends and
family..Here

So if your sister lives in London she calls
020-71006747

then she dials *9783 (in this example...from Step 1)
then your phone number 1-514-123-4567 , (example number is montreal 514-1234567)
then #

et voila...they will be connected, you will not be charged...all is good....isn't it nice?

Army Surplus, Winter Clothes

I begin to end 2009 by sharing with you my latest find, see below

This shop is on Notre Dame, 1 block west from Atwater Market

It sells as the name suggests uniforms, but also thermal undies, shoes, boots, coats, gloves, hats etc to keep you warm in winter at a cheap price...Forget Canadian Tire, even if you don't like uniforms you can go there to step back in time, long wooden counter, servers with tape measures...in short a Great Shop! Perrier approves, go there and you will be pleased. I think from now I will buy everything from there.