Gear Diary If You Use A Mac and Google Voice This Is A MUST HAVE! photo

I am slowly making my way to using Google Voice full time. It remains a bit of a hassle to make calls from my iPhone but the upside of using GV far out weighs the downside.

The biggest use I have for it is being able to initiate calls from my iMac or MacBook Pro and then, as soon as I finish the call, I can make notes or set a followup task for myself. I hated having to go to the GV website each time, however, so I went in search of a desktop widget that would serve the same function. I found it, and it is fantastic.

Gear Diary If You Use A Mac and Google Voice This Is A MUST HAVE! photo

Voice Mac is a small application that is currently in Beta. It quietly sits in the corner of your screen waiting for you to make a call or send an SMS.

Want to call someone? Simply start typing their number or spelling their name. As you do the list is filtered until you can grab the person and the number you want. From there you can select which of your numbers you want to ring. Click either the phone or the SMS balloon and your call or SMS is initiated.

It is simple, it is fast and it it currently free. Grab it here.

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Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him.


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