Google has launched a new feature that allows you to make free calls from your PC using Gmail.  It’s built into their existing “Google Chat”, which recently added voice and video pc-to-pc calling.  Now it also includes a “Call Phone” link which opens a phone keypad window that you can use to make calls (plug-in download required).   You can simply dial a number, or choose from suggestions it finds in your address book as you type a number or name.  According to the announcement in their Gmail blog post, calls to the U.S. and Canada are “free for at least the rest of the year” and minimal rates to overseas.

What’s even better is that this feature will work with your Google Voice account if you have one (now available to the public). More >