Tips by Category: Keeping in Touch

Manage mobile voicemail online

A new free service - MessageSling - lets you manage your voicemails online in a Gmail-like interface. MessageSling’s voice-to-text software converts your incoming voicemails to text messages and posts them on its web-accessible site.  If you receive so many voicemails that listening through them on your phone is clumsy or unmanageable, this service would save you time, hassle, and allow you to focus on the most pressing messages right away.

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Mobile access to LinkedIn

LinkedIn Mobile allows LinkedIn users to access all of their information using the mobile web.  It allows users to see all of their contacts, send invitations to events, and see what their connections are doing.  The service contains almost all of the features of LinkedIn but, with the benefit of being able to do it all from your mobile phone.

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Combine all chat services on your phone

Nimbuzz is a free mobile application that allows free chat, texts, file sharing and some free calls.  It integrates chat from all of the major programs like Skype, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Gtalk, Facebook, MySpace, and more.  It also allows you to place a widget on your website, blog, social networking page, which allows your friends to chat or text with you from a PC.

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View non-mobile enabled websites on your phone

WidSets is a free service that allows you to access your favorite web content from your mobile phone for free.  Through the use of mobile widgets and applications you can have access to non-mobile enhanced sites such as Wikipedia, flickr, The Wall St. Journal, Twitter, a push email program and many more.  WidSets also allows you to share mobile content with other users as well as publish your own content to the web.

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Inexpensive international mobile phone services

Jaxtr is a global mobile community that allows users to communicate with anyone across the world at a discount- or in some cases for no cost at all. Jaxtr’s services include free international calls and text messages to over 150 countries when contacting another jaxtr member. The cost is still reduced if you are calling or texting non-members. Jaxtr also provides the ability to screen calls and forward them to other phones. Becoming a Jaxtr member is easy and makes it less expensive to stay in touch with friends and business associates all over the globe.

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Automatic travel journal tracks your trip progress

With the purchase of an international cell phone package from Telestial Wireless comes Travel Journal, a program that uses the GPS location of your sim card to automatically update a map with your location. Travel Journal can allow friends and family to track your progress and leave comments.

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No more emoticons; video status updates are here

12seconds is a video status platform that will help you keep up to date with your friends. It’s a super easy way to share what you’re doing with friends and family using short video clips using a web cam or mobile phone to record and share 12second updates, just record and email or SMS it to the unique email address they give you and you’re good to go. 

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Twinkle, Twinkle Little App

Twitter app Twinkles on Apple’s new device. This star shines because it mixes in location-based services with Twitter, letting you tweet to show to others where you are, and also see the tweets of other users around you.

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World wide social networking

SpotJots just launched their BlackBerry app , offering location-based social networking that includes voice, picture, music, video and text sharing. Using Google maps to let you find jots around the world, SpotJots acts like a GPS-powered social radar. Just text SPOTSJOTS to 41411 or visit their website with your BlackBerry browser.

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It’s a new social network: Qeep

Blue Lion provides worldwide access to a new mobile social network called qeep. It’s offered free of charge, and has a host of alternative entertaining features for staying in touch. Multi-player gaming enables users to compete against one another in real-time on their mobile phones, while a photoblogging feature lets users share unlimited photos with friends in real time.

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