Even though I love peppermint year-round, there’s just something that tastes a little differently when it’s Christmas time and it’s in the shape of a candy cane. It seems like no matter how many candy canes I always buy at the beginning of the Christmas season, my family always eats all of them too. So I thought that a fun thing to do might be to come up with some kind of cookie or treat that uses candy canes.

So I went to my cookbook, the internet, with our Satellite Internet Provider and started searching for some tasty treat to make with crushed up candy canes. There were all kinds of really great things that I found and it seemed like it would be pretty easy to incorporate candy cane crumbs into a lot of recipes.

But, out of all the recipes, the one I found for candy cane cookies won out because it seemed like it was super easy and would taste really fantastic. Also, I think they would be easy to make some more of and give them away to friends as gifts.

Voice over Internet Protocol technology was introduced in the market nearly a decade ago; however it had its drawbacks so it really didn’t make it to the mass consumer market. However, now the situation is different, Voice over IP phone services are catching up with the conventional telephone service rapidly. Voice over IP services are also sometimes referred to as internet telephony or internet phone service. It is really hard to believe how someone could not know about VoIP services. In case if you are one of them, then for starters it works through a high speed internet connection and it surely does have it benefits. Various telephone companies claim to be cheaper but one tends to realize how cheap the service actually is when he/she has to pay the monthly bill. On the other hand, Voice over IP is actually a cheap service which helps you to save hundreds if not thousands on phone bills per annum.

Due to the rapidly growing market for Voice over IP services, many existing companies in the telecommunication sector are trying to penetrate the VoIP market by combing their existing services and offering a better and cost efficient package. VoIP services have revolutionized the entire market. Previously, users had to pay a significant amount of per minute charges for every international or long distance call. Where on the other hand, you pay as low as 2 to 5 cents per minute for an international call depending on the country you are calling and which service or package plan you are using. In some cases even this minimal charge does not apply if the user you are calling uses the same service. Some companies have taken this to the next level, for e.g. Vonage offers free unlimited calls to various international destinations for a reasonably fixed monthly charge.

The game is not all about cheap call rates, but it is also about a cheap service altogether. Some may anticipate that due to low per minute charges, the monthly rent will substantially be high, but it isn’t. Some VoIP packages start from as low as $9.99 plus tax. In addition, internet phone service providers even offer a variety of services such as Caller ID and Call Forwarding as standard; without any additional charges unlike any conventional telephone company would do.

Internet telephone service is worth giving some consideration. Though it acts as a landline, but it really isn’t one. You can take your VoIP adapter to wherever you plan to go for your vacations and make and receive calls if there is a high bandwidth internet connection available. This way you can stay in touch with your loved ones and stay on top of things back home. Furthermore, if for instance you decide to move to another city then you can get a VoIP number of an area code of your choice and make unlimited/free/cheap calls to your friends and family. With VoIP you can say Bye to additional roaming charges.