time's 50 best websites
i'm not a huge fan of time magazine, the publication that chose bush as man of the year in '04. it pains me a bit to give them credit to for hipping me to anything, much less anything web-related, but they did. their list of had a couple interesting sites i didn't know about. both help with phone issues.
already snatched up by google, time describes the site like so...
already snatched up by google, time describes the site like so...
most of us have at least three phone numbers—home, work, cell—and don't always know which one to give out, or later regret the choice we made. grand central is a free, one-number-ringing-multiple-phones routing service that solves all these problems, while giving you a level of control over your calls that earlier services like it did not. to get started, grand central assigns you a number (you can ask for a particular area code, then choose from a list) and you set up the forwarding rules. one obvious advantage is that when you're at your desk, you don't have to waste wireless minutes by taking calls on your cell phone; when you're away from your desk, you don't have to miss business calls ringing in at the office, because all your calls ring at all your phones, all the time. you can white-list your friends and colleagues so their calls come right through. you can also black-list numbers by sending them to the Spam folder or set up the outgoing message ("this phone is not in service") to play for unwanted callers. you can screen calls by listening in as callers are leaving a voicemail message, and then cut in to take the call... or not.
it does only one thing, but it does it oh, so well. on the home page, just type in a cell phone number and a brief message ("pick up dry cleaning") and this site sends it out as a text message to that phone on the date and at the time you specify.
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