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.

going going nearly gone

At the risk of turning this into a dieting blog, a while back I posted my gut and attempts to get rid of it. Here it is again, I lost a stone or more by combination of running and calorie counting, and I am sticking my gut out as far as it can go so no one can think I'm sucking it in....




week 1



Week 3

week 8

Week 31




Week 54
so I am 13 stone and could lose another 10lbs or so take 5 weeks unpleasantly or 10 weeks less unpleasantly..So a year back i had just started jogging and was told i'd have to be on statins

it has been v tough and has required being very anal at times but doable the worst thing is wanting results fast....

Bell Rip Off, VOIP, cheapest Phone

So I am sick of Bell, somehow it costs a fortune, the internet works erratically and finally I will do something about them. I have figured out cheapest solution and unpicked the geek speak so you don't have to.

My plan is to get internet and cable tv only through VDN . Then I will run a VOIP phone from the internet. This will work out at about $58 per month.

So far I have got as far as trialling the VOIP phone. If it runs trouble free for a month then no more Bell.

So the deal with the phone is you register at VOIP.ms . This is fairly painless but it is not very user friendly, but worth it.... Once you register you get a username and some password stuff, you also need to know the IP address of the montreal server which is on their webpage but nowhere blindingly obvious, it is 67.205.74.164 for montreal.
the you deposit funds by credit card.
To use it by computer you just download a free phone program like this one (X-lite). You enter your VOIP account details and off you go, you can make calls.
You can get a montreal phone number for $2 a month. You get free voicemail and lots of nice features. The X-lite phone can record conversations too. If you want to call 911 then that costs $1.50 a month. In short Voip.ms is pretty high powered and very customizable and cheap. The price you pay is some head scratching, but the customer support by web chat is pretty good and available most of the time, they talked me through some setup questions..

That's all fine, but what you really want is a real telephone, not to be sat at the computer to make a phonecall.

Well then you need an adaptor. I bought a thing called HandyTone 486 by ebay for about $42. In fact I went to the seller direct and picked it up. Saved waiting and post charges...

It worked fine at work but I had some bother getting it to work on my Bell-Sympatico Speedstream Modem. I fixed this by following these instructions.
You need the bell account name b1xxxxx and password.


So I have a $15 Dollarama phone hooked up to my modem and it works a treat...So far so good. I have switched modem on and off a few times, everything still works..Get voicemails sent to my email...

Soon I will check out VDN and disconnect from Bell.....hooray!The X lite phone is pretty good and cheaper than Skype, voice quality with VOIP.ms blows skype out the water...plus you can upgrade call quality for really important calls if you want...Like I said tons of features...
You can buy local international numbers in UK etc, not done it, but could be handy...

where are montreal speed cameras

They are here

Red is red light camera, blue speed, yellow mobile

And really...who cares? At least speed cameras don't apply the law at random, I am surprised Quebec has been so slow to take advantage of this free money, walk down sherbrooke at rush hour and no-one respects the red lights, and what is the big deal with slowing down near schools? Fuss about nothing, bring it on...