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Everybody might have heard about “Visual Voice Mail” (a.k.a. VVM), but incase you didn’t, VVM allows the subscriber to select which messages he or she wants to hear next.  For example, if the subscriber has 3 new voice messages, they can play the second message first, then the first, then the third.  You do not have to listen to them in the order in which they were received.  This is a very convenient way to check your messages.  You also have the option to delete the message if you already know that you do not want to hear it.

Let’s take VVM to the next level!  To do this, you just need a simple free account from YouMail.  You can get an account a couple of ways. 

1. Logon to youmail.com and register.
2. On your iPhone (App Store), Android Phone (Market Place), Blackberry, you can search the term, “youmail”.

YouMail allows the user to login via computer or phone application to retrieve the messages.  Here is the great thing.  If you are not able to take your phone to work or to a function, if somebody calls you and leaves a message, youmail.com will send you an email telling you who attempted to call and who left a message.  You can then either use your phone to listen to the messages or login to the youmail.com website and listen to the message.

This simple VVM system is a plus in my book.  It is very easy to use and yet, so complex!

Another great feature I LOVE talking about on this system is the fact that you can designate certain messages being played for certain numbers.  You can create a group so a certain message is played with those select people call you.  For example, if you have your boss and four other people from work that call you all the time, you can have a funny message greet them and tell them to leave a message.  In the other hand, if you have a car dealership that WILL NOT leave you alone because you test drove a car six months ago, you can add that number to the list and they will be greeted with a NUMBER DISCONNECTED message.  Not only that, after they hear that your number has been disconnected, you ditch the call!!! Sweetness!

You ditching a call just means that as soon as the selected greeting is played, YouMail will disconnect the caller and they have NO option to leave a message!!! This helps in preventing people from continious calling.  It works well!

Wow!  Let me tell you about this application that I found a little bit ago.  I was looking for a program that would be used on my Android OS phone, the Verizon Droid X, and I wanted to be able to keep up with all of my maintenance, fill-ups, repairs, and anything else having something to do with my car.

Well, I found the perfect solution.  The programmer, Armond Avanes, is a JAVA Developer that developes applications for the Android environment.  Mr. Avanes developed one hell of a program.

There are several pros and hardly any cons at all.  Some of the pros are simply these points:

• Record all fill-ups, maintenance repairs, oil changes, and anything having to do with the vehicle.
• Able to track several vehicles at once.
• If you are selling a vehicle, you can send the entire service record via email to somebody interested.
• Technical support is phenominal.  Mr. Avanes responds very promptly to emails.
• Different type of charts and graphs to illustrate different scenarios.
• aCar predicts when you next fill up will be based of history of fillups for particular vehicle.
• Tracks last month, current month, and last three months of fillups.
• Assists in budgeting monthly fuel cost without any heartache.

There are so many pros to having this program, that I don’t have the time to list them.  You can visit his site located at:

http://zonewalker.com/

You can see some of the screenshots below.  I would definetly put this little application on my phone if I didn’t already have it.  It’s a PLUS!