Greetings!
In this newsletter, I've sorted through the thousands of applications out there in the wild and picked three that I hope will make your life easier. Isn't that what technology is supposed to do?
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| GOOGLE VOICE
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 Have you tried Google Voice? If you have a smartphone (Android, Blackberry or iPhone), you will reap the most benefit from this amazing application but you can use if with a regular phone as well.
Here are some of the features: - Email and/or text messages alerting you of new voicemail.
- Visual voicemail - see all your voicemails in a chronological list with names and numbers.
- Record different greetings for different callers.
- Transcription of voicemail to an email or text.
- Web access to voicemail allowing you to listen, delete and manage your messages and settings from your computer.
- Ability to have one number for all your phones. For example, someone calls your Google voice number and all your phones will ring.
- Conference calling.
- Mobile app that lets you manage your voicemail from your smartphone.
- Call and text through Google Voice thereby avoiding using your carriers cell and texting minutes.
To find out more or set up Google Voice, go to www.google.com/voice. You will love this application. You do not have to change your phone number to use Google Voice. |
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PRINT TO YOUR HOME/OFFICE PRINTERS FROM ANY COMPUTER OR SMARTPHONE
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Google recently launched the ability to print to your home or office printer from anywhere using Google Cloud Print.
Google says, The "goal is to build a printing experience that enables any app (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer anywhere in the world." Send e-mails and Google Docs to a Cloud Print-connected printer from your smartphone simply by opening a file in the mobile browser and choosing "Print" from the drop-down menu. You will need a host computer running the Google Chrome browser to set up your printer. Instructions on setting up your printer can be found here. More about Google Cloud Print...
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| PRINT FROM AN IPAD
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In November, 2010, Apple introduced iOS 4.2 which included AirPrint - the ability to print from your iPad or iPhone. Unfortuntely, Apple's AirPrint only works with a small number of brand new printers that use a new feature called ePrint. Not good.
If you don't have a brand new printer with ePrint, there are several apps in Apple's App store that will allow you to print to any wireless printer. One such app is Print Central which works great but costs $9.99. If your are like me and like your apps for free, there is a method to print from an iPad to a printer connected to either a Windows or MAC computer. The only downside here is that the computer needs to be on. Not a big deal. I have been using this method and it works fabulously.
For Windows computers, follow the instructions here.
For Mac computers, follow the instructions here.
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