Welcome to the Communications page!

Here you can find programs, tips and tutorials on:

Dial-up, faxing, instant messenging, networking and V O I P.

 

The programs listed here are free for personal use, unless otherwise noted.

As with any, “freeware”, if you find that a program works for you, consider donating to the author.

This will help inspire them to continue to develop more software, which may prove beneficial to the blind community.

Programs listed here should work with all versions of windows up to XP, unless otherwise noted.

 

Programs:

 

Dial-up:

 

Dial-up-pass2

A small utility for revealing your dial-up passwords.

For more information, visit:

 

http://www.nirsoft.net/

 

Download dialupass2.zip 41.6kb

 

 

Phone Deck-for storing phone numbers.

For more information, visit:

http://www.tranglos.com/free/phonedeck_download.html

 

Download dcksetup.exe 1.41mb

 

 

Handy Bits- voice mail

For more information, visit:

http://www.handybits.com/voicemail.htm

 

Download vm_setup.exe 1.49mb

 

 

Instant Messenging and Internet Chat:

 

MessenPass v1.08 - Recover Lost Instant Messenger Passwords

For more information, visit:

http://www.nirsoft.net/

 

Download mspass_setup.exe 88.0kb

 

 

xp_messenger_remove for Windows Messenger.vbs:

 

This is a Visual Basic Script file which will remove Windows® Messenger from Windows® XP. It will also adjust your System Registry to prevent a long delay

when opening Outlook Express when Windows Messenger is removed or disabled.

For more information, visit:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_messenger_remove.htm

 

 

Download xp_messenger_remove for windows_messenger.vbs 4.0kb

 

 

Big Voice E-Mail:

Send voice mails to your friends.

(Voice Email messages are limited to 11 seconds of recording time for each message with the free version.)

For more information, visit:

http://www.newrad.com/software/bigvoiceemail/default.asp

 

Download big_voiceemail.exe 492kb

 

 

Google Talk:

 

Google Talk is in beta and requires a Gmail or Google Account username and password.

For more information, visit:

http://www.google.com/talk/

 

Download googletalk-setup.exe 1.53mb March 19, 2007

 

Pure Voice: April 7, 2007

For more information, visit:

http://www.cdmatech.com/products/purevoice.jsp

 

Download PureVoice_2_1_1c.zip 820kb

 

 

MSN MESSENGER:

For more information, visit:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E010F88F-8574-4562-AF6D-48DD23026B9D&displaylang=en

 

Download install_messenger8.1.exe 18.0mb

 

Download install_messenger8.0.exe 16.3mb

 

Download install_msn_messenger7.5.exe 8.92mb

 

Download install_msn_messenger7.0.exe 10.2mb

 

Download install_msn_messenger6.2.exe 5.0mb

 

Download msn_messenger62 _setup_for_xp.exe 5.0mb

 

 

Windows Messenger:

 

Version 5.0

 

Download setup95.exe 3.89mb. March 21, 2007

 

Version 4.7

 

Download mmssetup.exe 980kb. March 21, 2007

 

 

Yahoo Messenger:

Instant messenging program. Version 8.1

For more information, visit:

 

http://messenger.yahoo.com/

 

Download msgr8us.exe 408kb

 

 

Networking:

 

Network Password Recovery v1.03

For more information, visit:

http://www.nirsoft.net/

 

 

Download netpass.zip 41.1kb

 

 

SniffPass v1.01

SniffPass is small freeware utility that listens to your network, captures the passwords that pass through your network adapter, and displays them on the

screen instantly. SniffPass can capture the passwords of the following Protocols: POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP (basic

For more information, visit:

http://www.nirsoft.net/

 

Download sniffpass.zip 41.3kb

 

 

V O I P Clients:

 

SKYPE 3.0

For more information, visit:

http://www.skype.com/

 

                                    Download skype_3.0.0.198setup.exe 19.2mb

 

Skype 3.0 update released: January 17 2007.

Download skype3.0.0.205setup.exe 19.1mb

 

 

Skype 3.1: April 7, 2007

 

Download SkypeSetup3.1.0.150.exe 19.8mb

 

 

Skype version 3.2.0.145.: May 9, 2007

 

Download Skype3.1.0.144Setup.zip 19.8mb

 

Download Skype3.2.0.148Setup.zip 21.5mb. May 25, 2007

 

 

Get the latest version of Skype.

 

 

AudioID.zip: January 13,2008

Caller ID for Skype.

 

Download AudioID.zip 63.9kb.

 

 

 

 

Tips, Tutorials and Documentation:

 

 

John Wilson’s “From the Keyboard” tutorial on WinFax Pro.

 

Download win_fax.htm 7.66kb

 

Microsoft Knowledge Base article on the Windows Addressbook with other programs.

 

Download using_windows_addressbook_with_other_programs.txt 4.75kb

 

 

Smart Computing article on Windows 2000 networking.

 

tips_for_fixing_your_windows2000_networking_problems.txt 11.8kb

 

 

Smart Computing: glossary of wireless networking terms.

 

wireless_networking_glossary_of_terms.txt 4.40kb

 

 

Notes on dialup pass2.

 

dialupass2.txt 5.69kb

 

 

Creating filters in GroupWise.

 

group_wise_filtering_messages.txt 2.33kb

 

 

Handy Bits voice mail.

 

handy_bits.txt 4.0kb

 

 

Tip on highlighting text.

 

highlighting_text_within_an_email_or_document.txt 4.0kb

 

 

About the Juice podcast receiver.

 

juice_receiver.htm 1.07kb

 

 

About immerc speech.

 

m_irc_speech.txt 1.16kb

 

 

About the mail password viewer.

 

mailpv_setup.txt 1.14kb

 

 

About the Mighty Fax program.

 

mighty_fax.txt 3.26kb

 

 

Using MSN Messenger4.6

 

msn_messenger4.6.txt 1.05kb

 

 

More about MSN Messenger.

 

msn_messenger.txt 6.01kb

 

 

Using mspass for recovering your lost messenger passwords.

 

mspass_setup.txt 4.0kb

 

 

About the network password recovery utility.

 

net_pass.txt 5.18kb

 

 

About phone number converter.

 

phone_converter.txt4.0kb

 

About Phonedeck.

 

dcksetup.txt 3.56kb. March 23, 2007

 

About the protected storage password recovery tool.

 

pspv.txt12.7kb

 

 

About the password recovery tool for Microsoft Outlook.

 

pstpassword.txt 3.52kb

 

 

About Pure Voice.

 

pure_voice.txt 4.0kb

 

 

About SniffPass password recovery tool.

 

sniffpass.txt 4.38kb

 

 

About tera-term ner bbs.

 

tera_term_ner_bbs.txt 5.64kb

 

 

Hotkeys for the Vox Chat client.

 

vox_chat_hotkeys_and_instructions.txt 4.0kb

 

 

About Windows Messenger.

 

windows_messenger.txt 1.85kb

 

 

Customer Service number for Yahoo.

 

yahoo.com_phone.txt 106bytes

 

 

About Yahoo Messenger7.

 

yahoo_messenger7.txt 4.0kb

 

 

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Last reviewed: January 13, 2008