Now, boxes that allow any standard home phone to be used for making Skype phones have been around for a while. Once in place, these allow you to make and receive calls via Skype from pretty much any old tone-dial phone (provided the PC's on) just by plugging the phone and the PC into the back of the box.

The VoSky Call Center can do this, but also offers a neat extra feature. Once it is in place, you can simply dial your home phone from your mobile in order to route any call you want to make via Skype. Of course, you'll still be paying for the call home, but this is great for making international calls from your mobile when you're out and about.

Inevitably there are a couple things to bear in mind:

• Obviously you need to have your PC on with Skype running at home to use it
• If you have an answering machine on your home phone you'll probably need to disable it

Still, for around an extra £10 over the standard Vosky Internet Phone Wizard this could be a useful extra feature.

For full details on how it works, how to set it up and what it's really like to use in practice, I recommend Ubergizmo's exhaustive review, or you can buy the Vosky Call Center from the Skype shop for £48 / €71.45 / $69.99. FUll specification here.