Thursday, March 01, 2007
Callwave for Macs! Yay!!!
I've been an advisor to CallWave since 1999, and I've been enthusiastically using CallWave's fax-to-email service, which works with any email.
But I never needed CallWave's never-miss-a-call service for dial-up Internet users. I was on broadband, not dial-up.
And when CallWave started offering call management apps for broadband users, they developed for Windows, with 95% of the addressable market. But I had already switched to Macintosh. (I switched in August of 2004; I'll never forget it!)
Now, finally, CallWave is offering something for the Think Different set. CallWave's Voicemail widget displays a list of your mobile phone voice messages on your Mac, and plays them too. It runs in the OSX dashboard. It is stone simple to install, like any widget. It just f---ing works. And it is free, as in, "free beer."
There are a few differences between cellco voicemail and CallWave. Your caller hears a brief CallWave "leave a message" greeting instead of your own. And you are notified of new voicemail via SMS, rather than the usual alert; the alert contains the calling number, caller ID information, message length, etc.
It looks useful to me. I'm delighted to finally be a customer for a CallWave call management app! And I think Mac-heads and CallWave is a good match.
Disclosure: As a CallWave advisor, I own stock. (So try CallWave and help my stock go up, up, up!) And they pay me once in a while too. However, nobody asked me or told me to write this. I didn't even know The Widget was coming. I found it on the CallWave Web site, just like you can. CallWave did not see this before I posted it. The words above are all mine.
But I never needed CallWave's never-miss-a-call service for dial-up Internet users. I was on broadband, not dial-up.
And when CallWave started offering call management apps for broadband users, they developed for Windows, with 95% of the addressable market. But I had already switched to Macintosh. (I switched in August of 2004; I'll never forget it!)
Now, finally, CallWave is offering something for the Think Different set. CallWave's Voicemail widget displays a list of your mobile phone voice messages on your Mac, and plays them too. It runs in the OSX dashboard. It is stone simple to install, like any widget. It just f---ing works. And it is free, as in, "free beer."
There are a few differences between cellco voicemail and CallWave. Your caller hears a brief CallWave "leave a message" greeting instead of your own. And you are notified of new voicemail via SMS, rather than the usual alert; the alert contains the calling number, caller ID information, message length, etc.
It looks useful to me. I'm delighted to finally be a customer for a CallWave call management app! And I think Mac-heads and CallWave is a good match.
Disclosure: As a CallWave advisor, I own stock. (So try CallWave and help my stock go up, up, up!) And they pay me once in a while too. However, nobody asked me or told me to write this. I didn't even know The Widget was coming. I found it on the CallWave Web site, just like you can. CallWave did not see this before I posted it. The words above are all mine.
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