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...
Sep 8, 2010 | Google, Internet, search
Google made a simple but profound change to the way that search results are delivered to you from the Google search page. It changes the world in a small but significant way. You will now get two things while you type: Predictions of what you’re most likely to be...
Sep 7, 2010 | Google, IE, Internet, Microsoft, software
or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Google Chrome I am conservative about installing software. I don’t want programs on my computers unless I intend to use them. The first thing I do with a new computer is remove unnecessary utilities and cruddy photo programs...
