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Phone Call from Santa

busysignal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:00:08 +0000

Is there somebody in your life who would appreciate a call from Santa Claus? Well it just so happens that the folks at Gmail can help you out with that. They've set up a direct line to the North Pole, where you can give Santa the info he needs to place a personalized phone call [...]

Temporary Phone Numbers

busysignal — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:00:41 +0000

Just 'cause you're cleaning out your garage on Craigslist or you've agreed to meet that new guy/gal for coffee doesn't necessarily mean that you want to get phone calls from them for the rest of your life. In the World of Email, there are services that will provide you with throwaway email addresses–an email address [...]

Make free calls from your iPhone

busysignal — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:00:50 +0000

Everything costs too much. No matter where you go or what you do, somebody's got their hand out asking you for some more money. That's why people clip coupons, join membership stores, that sort of thing. That's also why services like Skype have taken off. The notion of being able to make a phone call [...]

Make free phone calls via Gmail

busysignal — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:00:20 +0000

Along with all the other stuff you can do in the World According to Google, you can now make phone calls. While you may be used to searching the web, viewing breaking news, using Google Docs productivity tools, and of course taking advantage of the the omnipresent Gmail service, you can now make free phone [...]

Voicemail without a phone

busysignal — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:00:25 +0000

Tired of making that important phone call, only to be sent off into voicemail oblivion? After all, if my call were that important, you would probably pick up, right? So how about avoiding the problem, by going directly to voicemail, even avoiding making the call in the first place. Vocaroo is a free service that [...]

Practice safe phone

busysignal — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:00:46 +0000

We all know that it's not a good idea to make phone calls while driving; indeed, in many jurisdictions it's flat out illegal. The problem is, though, that it's just too easy, and maybe too tempting, to just reach out and touch someone while in the car. If you need a little help remembering, there's [...]

Warrantless search of cell phones

busysignal — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:00:53 +0000

If you're up to no good in California, or even if you're just concerned about your personal privacy, a recent Supreme Court ruling may be of interest to you. In the case, People v. Diaz, 165 Cal. App. 4th 732, the Court ruled that the police could search the cell phone of the accused without [...]

Free 411 Services

busysignal — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:00:33 +0000

All good things must come to an end. If you've become dependent on Google's GOOG-411, you know that it's gone the way of the dodo. What you thought was a nifty free service, was in fact an easy way for Google to grab samples of speech for its various voice recognition projects. Now that they've [...]

Make free VoIP calls locally and internationally

busysignal — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:00:41 +0000

Way back when, you needed a telephone to make phone calls. With the advent of Internet-based VoIP calling, all you need is to be able to go online and the world is at your beck and call. While there are several different ways to make calls via the Internet, they each seem to come with [...]

Where did I put that phone?

busysignal — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:00:53 +0000

If you're always on top of things, if you never misplace anything, if you know exactly where your cell phone is at all times, then you might as well not continue reading this. For the rest of us, misplacing our mobile phone ranks right up there with the more frustrating things that we can do. [...]