Tech For Free!

No matter what type of phone you have, or which carrier you use, you can take advantage of Google Voice, which is a free service that allows you to select and use one telephone number as your primary telephone number for free. Now that, in and of itself, is not especially notable, but what is notable are the FREE SERVICES that come along with the number (see feature list below). FYI, I use Google Voice and I love it. To sign-up visit https://www.google.com/voice (it’s really free–no tricks I swear).

Google Voice Features

• free telephone number from any area code
• if you change phones or carriers your Google number remains the same
• when someone calls you can forward the call to multiple phones and even set rules based upon the time of day, or who is calling
• screen calls: if a call goes to voicemail, you can listen to the message as its being recorded and even choose to take the call mistream
• access your voicemail from your phone or computer
• voicemail messages are also transcribed and sent via email and even text messaging
• easily forward voicemail messages
• set personalized greetings for specific callers
• block unwanted callers
• respond to text messages via email (they are sent back as sms automatically)
• make calls from any phone using your Google Voice number
• place international calls for pennies per minute
• setup  conference calls

In the words of Google “…less annoyances, and more awesomeness”.  For more information about the features noted above,  you may find it helpful to view these videos: