Google Voice is off the hook awesome. Lisa and I learned that by changing a few settings, you can have the call forward to your phone, but if you decide to send it voicemail, it goes to google voice’s inbox. Then, if you wanted, you could have the vm translated to text and texted to your phone in a matter of a few minutes.
Further, you can call into your number, and make calls from there. Calls anywhere in the US are $0. So, theoretically, you can get a basic landline with no long distance, call into your GV number, and have long distance for no extra cost.
Brilliant.
My plan is to set up a number for the business and make calls from my cellphone, so that I can avoid using the work phone and be able to call patients from anywhere. Further, the forwarding will go straight to the office, so all after hours calls will head to our answering service. Awesome.
The only complaint: you can’t change the caller ID name.
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The Palm Pre, as of right now, is NOT coming to Verizon, thus irritating me immensely. That was *the* phone, and it’s stuck on Sprint’s network.
This is the problem with verizon – they have the best network, so if you want your phone to work everywhere reliably, they have you by the throat. I want my phone to reliably ring in my house – is that too much to ask?
The only reason why I wanted a Pre was for Google Voice use, dontcha know. I love my treo, but there are no native apps for GV.
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This isn’t a gripe, but it’s troubling. A census bureau volunteer was found hung with the word ‘Fed’ written across his chest. It is being treated as a homicide.
I hate to go into Right vs. Left pundits, saying the left is correct and the right isn’t – I find Keith Olbermann as irritating as Rush Limbaugh – but there is something to be said for the sort of vitriol that has increased which Obama has been in office. While a majority of the country voted for Obama, a small percentage of the minority, who I will NOT pigeonhole as ‘conservative’ or ‘evangelical’ or ‘Republican’, have treated his presidency as a call to arms.
I very much fear for the future of this country. George Bush may have divided this country, but this schism has run much deeper than whatever he did. These are dangerous times we are living. I sincerely hope that the Department of Homeland Security takes a very close look at the agitators in the media who have spoken specifically in less than veiled terms regarding violence against the sitting president and anyone under him. I personally think these threats of death and harm are overt and specific enough to not be considered protected speech.
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