I had known for a couple days about google’s new acquisition but haven’t had time to get around and check it out. I finally did and I love what I am seeing and I thought of sharing this with my readers.
Google has just added Grandcentral to its portfolio, a site that lets you forward calls to all your phones ( landlines, cell phones, VOIP ) through one number.

Here is a description of how this service works: When you open an account at Grandcentral.com you are assigned a unique number based on your area code. After this step you provide grandcentral all of the numbers that you can be reached at , land lines, cell phones, VOIP, etc. Now you are rady to roll. You can give all your contacts this one number provided by Grandcentral.com and you can have your land lines, cell phones, internet phones and even your gijmo project client, or all of the above ringing - simulataneously.

While your caller is waiting for you to answer your call, Grandcentral plays a standard ring tune but if you choose you can upload mp3 files to soothe your callers ears as well. Neat! Also if you prefer not to answer one of these calls Grandcentral forwards these calls to a voice mail that can be accessed via the website or your email. Also the neatest of all you can also hear the incoming voice mail on your phone while they are being recorded.

This is a great service and since it is tied with google it is going to get better day by day. You will never miss a call with this service, whether at home or road, in your office or anywhere that you have access to any type of phone that you have provided the number to Grandcentral.Awesome service and once again google keeps it free.

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This is a great service for all websites that have 500 pages or less. XML Sitemap Generator from XML-Sitemaps.com provides fast and easy sitemap creation ( A sitemap is a way of organizing a website, identifying the URL’s and data under each section. Due to this organization of all the factors it is much easier for the search engine to find a website ).

This service not only trawls through all levels of your site but also gives you a running count of pages and provides a text based URL list and an html sitemap that you can import or download straight into your website.

This service is free if your website is less that 500 pages but if you have a larger site you can access the script based version for a low cost. This service also gets an endorsement from Google via inclusion in their list of Third Party Plugins for Google sitemaps. Great handy tool for all the webmasters out there. It cant get any easier than this.

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Gmail and Picasa Albums are going fee based if you need more storage. At the moment gmail offers users 2.82 GB of free space and Picasa album offers 1 GB of free space. Users who have been using these free services from the search giant can update their storage upto a whooping 250 GB for a fee.
What is the fee structure? If you need upto 6 GB of storage Google plans to charge $ 20 per year and for 250 GB of storage plan to shell out $500.

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