Don Vandervort, Head Homeboy, has written more than 30 DIY home improvement books, been a segment host on HGTV, served as MSN.com's home improvement expert and written countless magazine articles.
Best Home Telephone Plans Back in the days of rotary dial-up, you paid a monthly fee for certain “local” or “semi-local” calls from a telephone provider and if you were ahead of the times, you shopped around for a better deal for long-distance rates...
Corded Phones vs. Cordless Phones Even though corded phones are going the way of the dinosaur, it is still a good idea to keep at least one corded phone in your home in case of a power outage...
Cordless Telephone Features When purchasing a cordless phone, consider the following * How many handsets do you want? And do you want each handset to have its own base?* Make sure the batteries in the handset(s) on your cordless phone(s) can sustain approximately eight hours of continuous talking for four to seven days before needing a recharge...
How to Choose a Landline Phone How you choose a landline phone depends primarily on how you want to use it and how much you want to spend...
VoIP Internet Telephones Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a protocol optimized for the transmission of voice through the Internet or other packet-switched networks An IP phone uses Voice over IP technologies allowing telephone calls to be made over an IP network such as the Internet or a private IP network instead of the ordinary public switched telephone networks (PSTN or the telephone line)...