Undiscovered Tech Products of 2009
But the shadow cast by those headline-grabbing superstars obscured the emergence of several other products that were groundbreaking in their own right. The good news, though, is that those relatively undiscovered products are still around, just waiting to make your life easier. Here's a rundown.
Many people today have multiple phone numbers, and that's a problem when it comes to keeping up with messages. Google Voice (https://www.google.com/voice) solves this problem in an elegant way.
Google Voice's headline feature is that it can aggregate your calls and messages from multiple numbers. But it has more tricks up its sleeve as well.
It can free you from voice mail altogether, if you wish, by transcribing messages received into email, allowing you to "read" your voicemail messages on your iPhone or BlackBerry while you're sitting in a dull meeting.
Google Voice also provides very low-cost international calling, custom greetings for individual callers, and, if you opt for one of Google Voice's free telephone numbers, the ability to have one number for all of your telephones and the ability to receive SMS messages by e-mail.
Password management is the bane of Internet users everywhere. At every turn online, you're reminded that strong passwords -- those with a mixture of letters, numbers, and symbols -- are the safest.
Yet strong passwords are next to impossible to remember, so few actually use them. There have been plenty of password managers that promised to make the job of creating, remembering, and storing strong passwords easier, but they all fell short in way or another.
Lastpass (https://lastpass.com) is different. Not only is it easy to use from its browser-installed toolbar, but it's also been built from the ground up with easy...
