(Ben) Jenn and I recently learned about the coolest website from a friend of ours in the branch out here, and we thought we'd share it with all of you. Google recently purchased a site called GrandCentral which is a free phone service company. Here's how it works: You pick anywhere in the US to have a local phone number. We got a Layton, Utah one so that our parents can call us locally. Then, you set up on GrandCentral what phones you want them to forward the call to, and they will do it for free. You can have all calls forwarded to multiple phones (e.g. when my mom calls our Utah number, it rings on both our home phone as well as the cell phone at the same time), or select where you want to take calls from certain people (e.g. always send calls from a certain person to your work number, or your cell, or whatever). The service has CallerId, voicemail, and a whole bunch of other stuff (funny ringtones, etc.). Best of all, it's free! Cool, eh? Anyway, the site is still in its Beta testing phase, so if you want to sign up you have to be invited, but we have invitations, so email us if you want one. Also, if any of you want our Utah number, let us know and we'll give it to you.
Every day I become a bigger and bigger fan of Google...
1 comment:
This service is really cool but the ringtone surely threw me! It's hilarious but you never sound actually connected . . . but it works and for free! Soon there will be no such thing as long distance calling.
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