Sep 26, 2010 | security, web_services
LastPass has moved to my short list of essential utilities. If you’re not familiar with it, go read my original article about the concept behind the program, then go to the LastPass web site and watch some of the videos explaining how the service works. The design of...
Sep 22, 2010 | Google, mobile, phone, software, video, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Google Voice Interlude – Background About Voice And Data Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 2 Skype is best known for its program that runs on a computer to call other Skype users for...
Sep 19, 2010 | Google, mobile, phone, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Google Voice Interlude – Background About Voice And Data If you’ve been following along, you understand the tension between new services like Google Voice and Skype that move your voice...
Sep 16, 2010 | Google, mobile, phone, software, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Now things get really interesting. Well, they do to me, anyway. I’m odd. This is at best wildly simplified, and at worst completely inaccurate, but pay attention anyway – you’ll need...
Sep 13, 2010 | Google, phone, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice All of this started because I don’t have a reliable cell phone signal at my home office west of Sebastopol. Verizon coverage is erratic and the area has no coverage at all from AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile. If I could, I’d use...
Sep 11, 2010 | Google, phone, web_services
Google Voice is a free service that gives you a phone number. When you dial my phone number, (707) 703-1601, you’re dialing a Google Voice number. Thanks to the Google Voice service, at the same moment my office phone rings, my cell phone rings, and Skype starts...
