Magic Jack
This tool is a real cost reducer.

It allows you to plug the magicJack into your PC using a USB port and then you can plug your telephone wire into the Magic Jack and make unlimited calls for free to anywhere to the USA or Canada.

So you could be in the USA or anywhere else in the WORLD and log on to the Internet using Wireless network or any other Internet connection and then start making telephone calls to land lines or cell phones in the USA or Canada.

You could also run the wire out from your magicJack to the line into your home or office and all the phones would be able to make calls immediately.

The magicJack costs around $40 USD for the unit and then $20 USD each year thereafter. You can find more information at MagicJack.com 

Skype
By now, everyone should be familiar with Skype available from www.skype.com

I have tested it and it shows video from a web cam much faster than Yahoo Messenger and, presumably, other IM sites.  No stuttering of the video frames and great FREE talking over the Internet with a microphone, either built-in or a plug-in.

The key to staying happy, in my friend Jerry Fireman's opinion, is filling up your life with fulfilling and meaningful activities. These ideas are not really designed to help get you out of a bad mood but more to be done on a regular basis to keep you in a positive mood. There's nothing very new here but I am hoping that they might help in a small way.

1) Fulfilling work � Probably the most important of all because that�s where you spend most of your time. You should concentrate on doing a great job rather than letting your mind wander. Your work should bring you connections with other people, such as part of a team or making a difference to customers.

2) Staying close to friends and relatives � Make contact every day with as many friends and relatives as you have time to. Call them on the phone, meet them for coffee, send them an email, mail them a greeting card.

3) Good deeds � Do nice things for others on a regular basis. This should include your friends and relatives, co-workers, and people you have never seen before and will never see again. Things that no one will ever know you did are best of all, like picking up someone else�s litter when no one is around.

4) Exercise � A good workout will make you feel great for at least four hours so try to plan it just before the times when you normally feel down. The best exercise is when you raise your heart rate to 70% of your maximum for 30 minutes or more, so think about getting a heart rate monitor to measure your effort.

5) Cause � Find something that you can be enthusiastic about that has nothing to do with your own personal well-being. For example, work for a political candidate, join an organization dedicated to a cause, support a charity, or maybe help an older person in your neighborhood on a regular basis.

Amplify from www.amplify.com is an add-on to your Internet Explorer browser that helps you do research and is much better than Google or Yahoo.  Onfolio from www.onfolio.com and enLighter Retriever from www.n-liter.com are also very helpful.

Add VIDEO to Your Presentations

At this point in time, we must add some kind of video to our presentations.  YouTube, HDTV, and virtually every sales message now has some form of video. Videos can be developed for the Internet, PowerPoint presentations and In-The-Lobby infinitely looping shows.  When you develop the video you MUST HAVE a quality sound recording system and not one from the camera, two cameras so you can switch back and forth, a script, a studio to shoot it in without outside sounds AND some decent software to edit and add the sound track to the video.