Voice Mail That Doesn’t Suck
Note: This is NOT an “ad” post. I’m no one’s sales bitch and I don’t post ANYTHING that doesn’t come directly from ME.
I hate checking my voice mail. It’s time consuming and I don’t like to have to listen to the bullshit messages before getting to the ones I want and/or need to hear. When I had my iPhone I LOVED the visual voice mail. I, personally, think that ALL cell phones should have that feature. It’s priceless. But, alas, they don’t.
Today I discovered this neat-o service called YouMail that takes the ass pain out of voice mail retrieval. And it’s NOT just for BlackBerrys. it works with a shitload of other phones and pretty much every carrier. Basically, if you have voice mail attached to your cell, you can probably use it. Best part of all: It’s FREE. I love free stuff and I figured y’all would too.
The whole set-up process took me about 5 minutes, if that. Setting up my preferences took me about another 5. I could sit here and list all the nifty features of YouMail, but that’s why they have a Web site. I will tell you, however, that I now have visual voice mail, and have also opted to get text transcripts of them- which is pretty cool. It’s also funny when they don’t get it transcribed exactly right- but they also email me an MP3 of the message, so I can hear it if I need to. They also give me detailed caller ID info on my voice mail leavers. (Even the ones who hang up.) I should note that if you don’t have email on your phone, getting your messages emailed to you might not be as fabulous as it is for those of us that do.
Finally, since I also hate it when people block their numbers before calling me, I’m using the “DitchMail” option on those assholes. They get a greeting that tells them I don’t accept blocked calls, to unblock their numbers and try again- then hangs up on them. If you don’t want me to know who you are, then you shouldn’t be calling me. Anonymous calling is for tweens, telemarketers and pussies. Put your big girl panties on and call me back.
Peace and nifty, free shit.
EDIT (July 11th, 7:53 p.m.): I have been having some issues with YouMail that I thought I’d share. This afternoon Hot Future Doctor called me about 3 p.m. I didn’t get notified until after SEVEN P.M. And when I did get notified, it was in a text. No email, with attached voice mail, the way I set it up. I even went back and re-checked my settings. THEN I attempted to forward his voice mail to my email and it didn’t forward. It’s been half an hour now. I also attempted to forward it to my SECOND email address… So far nothing there either.
I have sent a message to YouMail detailing my snags and expressing my unhappiness. I understand this is a free service, but that kind of delay time between voice mails and notifications is not acceptable. I’ve decided to give it 24 more hours and if they don’t fix this shit- I’m getting rid of it.
So I was out in the Internet, reading through the blogs I link to, and while I was at another