Article • October 17, 2016

View Friends' Locations and Share Your Own

Wave is an easy way to keep track of your friends' whereabouts

“Meet at the concert,” he said. “Text me when you’re here,” he said.

One hour later, you’re still searching for him.

Ugh. This is when Wave comes in handy. It’s an app for sharing your location and seeing friends’ whereabouts for set periods of time.

Wave cuts down on the creepiness factor because it works on a request basis: You choose which friends see your location, and for how long. Need to find someone? Request to see their location and they can share it with you.

It also has a handy chat feature, so you can communicate in-app.

Found him!

Find Your Friends


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Article • September 23, 2010

Going Postal

UPDATED 2/2016: This service is no longer available. For a similar pick, see Updater

 

If you’re anything like us your snail mail sits in a large, ignored pile somewhere near your front door.

To get rid of that clutter, there’s Zumbox, a service that lets you create an electronic mailbox for your physical address.

Sign up for a free account and Zumbox will verify your address with a letter and a PIN (similar to activating a debit card).

From there, you can respond to commercial enterprises with a click of a button to notify them that you would like only paperless mail from them (think utility, phone and cable bills, along with all the junk mail you get).

The site provides bank-level security, allowing you to store and access all of your mail in one central, secure place.  It’s also a lot more environmentally friendly than paper mail (and you can check it while you’re on vacation).

And, for those times when you need to send something physical to a friend, there’s Send Social, a service that allows you to mail packages based on a person’s social media presence.

Start by signing in with your Facebook, Twitter or email account. From there, you can send a request to a friend whose address you don’t have via their Facebook, Twitter or email address.

If they accept your request, you’ll receive a barcode address label to affix to the parcel you’d like to send. This means that the person receiving the package can maintain their privacy while still taking their social networking to new level.

Your postman will thank you.

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Article • September 22, 2010

Read Your Voicemails, Consolidate All Your Numbers, and Have a Better Overall Phone Experience

Reinvent the way you use your phone with Google Voice

Chances are you have three phone numbers (home, cell, office), which means you’re missing calls.

To simplify the telephony experience try Google Voice, a new service that allows you to consolidate all of your numbers.

Start by setting up an account and picking a number. You can search for numbers that spell out words in any area code you’d like.

From there, you can set Google Voice to accept incoming calls from your landlines or office phones, and direct calls based on who is calling you or time of day.

If you ever change carriers, your Google Voice number will stay the same.

To make calls from your number, just enter the number you’d like to call on your Google Voice homepage or call your Google Voice number from your phone and enter the number you’d like to dial at the prompt (we recommend taking advantage of the outrageously low international rates).

If you have an Android phone, it’s as easy as downloading the Google Voice app and dialing the number from within.

Google Voice automatically transcribes all voicemails to text, making it easy to avoid your voicemail box entirely. You can also easily share important or memorable voicemails via email.

With simple contact management options, you can screen or block callers and set custom voicemail recordings for specified numbers.

Think of it as a digital secretary to manage all your important calls.

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Article • September 17, 2010

Scheduled Programming

An Easy Way To Save Videos For Future Viewing Pleasure

According to current statistics you’re watching a hell of a lot of video on the web. We’re also guessing most of it isn’t relevant to your job.

To stay on top of your viewing there’s RadBox, a service that allows you to store a queue of online videos to watch whenever you want to (e.g. when you’re off duty).

Start by signing up for a free account and dragging the “Add to RadBox” button to your browser’s bookmark bar. Then go about surfing the web for video entertainment as you usually do.

Whenever you come across an item you want to watch, just click the button and the video will be added to a bookmark queue so you can watch it when you have the time.

You can save video from all the sources you normally browse–YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, College Humor, etc. There’s even a mobile app in the works.

Think of it as TiVo for your browser

Visit RadBox


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