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http://www.youmail.com

Enhanced Visual Voicemail for Cell Phones – Making voicemail unique!

YouMail is a free online voicemail replacement with personal greetings which comes jam-packed with lots of tools for both business and personal use.

Visual Voicemail
-See visual voicemail - on your phone, browser or e-mail
-Completely visual - see who called, from where, and even their picture (when before all you had was their number!)
-Use your smart phone or your computer - or you can still dial in like before (if you feel the need!) -Save time
-Point, click and play or delete.

Voice-To-Text Transcriptions
-Near perfect voice-to-text transcriptions.
-Know if a message truly is urgent in situations when you can't simply dial or answer your phone.
-Read and respond to voicemail messages while in a meeting, class, movie or other busy setting.

Personal Custom Greetings or Choose from a Community of Cool Greetings
-Impress your callers - greet them by name
-Easily have different greetings for your sweetie, your friends, your co-workers and your boss.
-Choose from a library of free greetings or upload any sound file as a greeting.
-Choose from over a thousand greetings that'll make your callers laugh or smile.
-Or appear more professional by using our studio recorded greetings.
-Even choose greetings recorded in different languages for your foreign friends and colleagues

Why have different greetings for different callers?
You can be professional to your co-workers or boss, funny to your friends and romantic to your sweetie.

Ah, and then there’s Ditchmail
This is for the sales guy who’s been incessantly calling you trying to get your business (or a bill collector, perhaps..)

Ditchmail Greeting: “This user is currently not accepting new messages. Goodbye!” For everyone else: You can select a basic greeting or record a generic greeting of your own.

Block or Eliminate Unwanted Callers
-Block unwanted voicemail - goodbye pesky callers
-Automatically hang up on unwanted callers before they can leave voicemail
-Simple to set up with just one click
-Easily let a pesky ex or a telemarketer think your number is no longer in service

Easy Voicemail Sharing
-Forward, share or save messages forever.
-Save time by just forwarding voicemails - no need to take notes and then call or e-mail. -It's effortless to instant message a voicemail to your family or friends. -You can even post someone's call to your MySpace or Facebook page. Voicemail Sent To Email
-Get all your e-mail and voicemail together in one place. -Treat your voicemail just like email - easy to forward, easy to save. -Get voicemails even when you don't have reception on your phone

iPhone App
-Get Through Your Voicemail Fast!
-Play or read, in any order – on your phone, computer or in email
-Forward voicemail effortlessly – share with family, friends, co-workers and clients

Pricing:
YouMail Standard - Free

YouMail Pro - $1.99/mo or $19.99 Annual Plan (Save: $3.89- 16% )
Upgrading to Pro eliminates ads, has a bigger inbox (can hold 5000 voicemails), can protect your privacy (require blocked or unknown callers to enter in phone number) and never cuts anyone off - Callers can leave 5 minute voicemails, and you can have up to 2 minute long greetings.

YouMail Read it - Voicemail Transcription - $3.99/mo to $29.99/mo

Additional Greetings - From $1.99-$4.99 per greeting

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:05:00 -0700 Ever wish you could retract an email? http://techtoolu.posterous.com/ever-wish-you-could-retract-an-email http://techtoolu.posterous.com/ever-wish-you-could-retract-an-email

Now you can! BigString is Email with no regrets!

http://www.bigstring.com

I was so excited to discover this – and think you will find a need for it as well.

Big String is a revolutionary new email service that allows you to control your sent messages.

Easily send, recall, erase, self-destruct and modify an email after it has been sent. 

BigString users have unprecedented control over all of their email, whether they choose to send it through the BigString.com website or an email client such as Outlook.

  • Free Email with unlimited Storage
  • Self Destructing Email
  • Recallable/Erasable Email
  • Non-Forwardable Email
  • Non-Printable/Savable Email
  • Advanced Email Tracking

Forget the attachment?  No problem, recall and resend it or edit the already sent email!

Choose the hard to print option and your messages are protected from printing, copying, being saved or print screened.

No downloads, simple signup, simply amazing!

BigString’s email tracker is available for the web based versions of AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, MSN and on any email system in which email is sent through Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007.

You can send messages and have them appear as if they are being sent from your primary email (you do not have to use the bigstring email as the from email address).

Pricing:
Free or Upgrade

Upgrade is $29.95 per Year and includes:

POP3 Access
30 minute video email
Unlimited Storage

 

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http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/278797/TTULogo.png http://posterous.com/users/36zxbSTm7kqZ Erika Blanchard TechToolGuru Erika Blanchard