August 31, 2011
Most of us who use smartphones eventually start to like using text messaging. Once you get the hang of it and realize that you can reduce a potential thirty-minute chitchat to a mere sentence or two, then you begin to appreciate text messaging as an alternative to phone calling. But there are times when you want to send a message but not write it. That’s where TalkBox comes in. It allows you to send voice messages using your iPhone or Android.
February 18, 2011
There are a lot of different ways you can interact with your readers when you run a blog. It may be sufficient to provide a comment system like Disqus, or maybe you might incorporate contact forms into your site so you can get direct, one-way feedback from your visitors. Sometimes, you may need a little more [...]
April 2, 2010
I often get asked how to set up my wireless voicemail. I normally tell people to RTFM or look for a voicemail contact in your address book. But today I will show you how to set up your voicemail across 4 major mobile cellphone carriers in my neck of the woods. If you have a [...]
February 28, 2010
Through the years, the way we handle our telephone messages has gone through some dramatic changes. Remember the days of needing tape cassettes to record answering machine messages? I suppose it hasn’t really been that long has it? With the old answering machines, there really wasn’t much flexibility. You could listen to your messages and [...]
February 25, 2010
When I first heard about Google Voice, I immediately submitted my email for an invite, and within a few weeks I received one. April first provided a review of Google Voice and offered 100 invites right here at MUO. Since then, Google continued to progress with Google Voice and add more features. My initial excitement about [...]
November 16, 2009
For a little while, free voicemail systems were very common online. You could sign up for any number of services where callers could leave you a voicemail message, and you could retrieve those messages online. Over time, most of the voicemail services started charging or wrapping up the voicemail feature into a larger VoIP package. [...]
November 7, 2009
Does anyone still remember the answering machine? You know the thing that your 800 voicemails have made obsolete? Maybe your parents still have one. They have a flashing red number on them and they always broke down. The thing that I remember and loved about answering machines were that you could buy pre-recorded messages on [...]
June 1, 2009
Not very long ago, prank calling consisted of a room full of bored teens, a rotary phone and a phone book flipped open to the “pizza delivery” section of the Yellow Pages. You’d pick straws to choose who went first, and then take turns seeing who could make the funniest prank call. However, the rapid [...]
August 25, 2008
Clearly iPhone users have a serious need for instant messaging. After the App Store launched it seemed like everybody and their brother created an AIM client (including the protocol’s creators, AOL). Since then, I’ve been looking through the list and sorting the good from the bad. As it turns out, the 3rd party developers really [...]
July 2, 2008
I came across Phonevite entirely by accident. As a project lead I have to constantly stay in contact with large groups of people in a clip. It used to require lots of phone calls and repeating the same information over and over again. How about if there was a free tool that allowed you to [...]
