Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Grand Central

Here are a couple of my favorites from Lifehacker. EVERYONE should try Grand Central while it is still in Beta. Free extra number! I picked up one number 720-381-2398. Jenny has one in Olathe. Both are forwarded to our local home number. FREE! So you can sign up for a number somewhere in the country, and have it forwarded to your home number. It will also forward to different numbers depending on who is calling. So lets say you make a group that if it is from Family, forward it to your home. From no one on your list...Forward to a "Special Voicemail." Cool Features! Looking to move out of state? Get a local number in your locale of choice...

Get Your GrandCentral Number Today [Telephony]

grandcentral-signup.pngIf you've been dying to try out the one-number-to-rule-them-all phone service GrandCentral, but have been stymied by their move to a closed, invite-only beta following Google's acquisition of the service, you'll be glad to know that GrandCentral has opened up to users of Google's Blogger. If you're still undecided about whether or not GrandCentral is for you, check out our extensive review and gallery of GrandCentral. If you've been a user of GrandCentral since we first posted about it, let's hear how you're liking it in the comments. Thanks Jason!

This one is pretty fun. Tired of the old Windows logon? Or Mac logon? See below.

Customize Your Login Screen with LogonStudio [Featured Windows Download]

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Windows only: Freeware application LogonStudio brings full login screen customization to your Windows XP or Vista PC. Last week we showed Mac users how they can match their desktop and login images, so if you were a Windows user looking for similar functionality, LogonStudio can do that for you and so much more. The app comes with several built-in login screens and images, but you can customize practically ever section of your login screen to your heart's content. LogonStudio is freeware, Windows only. Thanks cavelierex!

LogonStudio [Stardock]

2 comments:

Annieofbluegables said...

It sounds neat. But I am confused. Can you use your regular number as the grand central number, or do you have to sign up for a totally new number to use? I don't want spammers to call me.
isn't technology so amazing?
~a

Mike said...

You keep your regular number...So lets say you get a GCS number in SLC. Folks in SLC can call that number, and depending on how you have things set up, it will ring your home, cell or work number. See this link. http://www.grandcentral.com/about/whatisgc/