Archive for August, 2009

iTunes plugin for Flashbake

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Flashbake is a fantastic script for nerdy writers (like me) that periodically commits changes to a Git repository and can optionally append various metadata to the commit message, allowing you to annotate the entire creative process. (more…)

Using Google Voice and Gizmo Project Together

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

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Google Voice, the Google-ized incarnation of GrandCentral, is a fantastic service that aims to become your virtual phone switchboard. It gives you a free phone number that can receive regular phone calls and route them to any other actual phones you have connected to your account. Powerful stuff.

Unfortunately, though, its forwarding abilities are limited to US phones. Using some VoIP magic, though, you can create a semblance of international forwarding and get free (or nearly free) phone calls to the US while abroad. If you’re not in a foreign country, you can harness the same VoIP magic to get a nearly free phone service. (more…)