Saturday, November 17, 2007

Handy new free service

I recently discovered a handy new service that you might find useful. Have you ever been driving around town and saw an address or sign that you wanted to remember? You did not have a pen and paper handy or could not stop the car.
By the time you got home you forgot what it was or even what it was about.
Next time you can call a number, say what it is you want to remember and have it emailed or text messaged to yourself or anyone else you have on your list of contacts. The service is called Jott and it is free. You register at www.jott.com and
put in a list of email addresses that you want to send messages to. You can even include your own email to send messages to your self. You can create groups to sent the same message to a number of people at the same time. You can post to you blog. Jott transcribes your voice into text. I have been using it for a couple of weeks now. Works pretty good most of the time. Sometimes with background noise it has trouble understanding. The message recording time is only 30 seconds. I tried to send this blog post and found that I had to break it into 3 recordings. So it works pretty well most of the time. I am still learning different uses and applications for it. Jott sends a daily email with tips on how to use it.
So try it out. And make sure you have Jott on your speed dial.

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