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Here's what it looks like...

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Glad everyone liked it :) It's one of those little gems that I think deserves more attention than it gets. I've had it for years and it's one that I still consider to be one of the best software purchases I've made. (Edit: In case anyone is wondering, no I am not affiliated with them in any way. I do, however, enjoy recommending software and rarely get a chance to recommend this one, which happens to be one of my most favorite and useful applications. It's also only one of two that almost never fails to turn heads when someone visits.)

I've not encountered the problem with remote assistance the few times I've used that. I kind of wonder if it isn't a modem issue, though. Regardless, a restart of the program usually fixes such things.

johnfdeluca: I definitely agree that being able to check messages over the LAN would be really nice. I figure I could use syncronization software as a workaround, but would much rather have native network support. I already sent them a feature request not too long ago. If you haven't already then maybe you should, more requests usually increases the chances of getting it :)

For those with darker aesthetic preferences, I made my own skin for it, which I've attached. Sometimes you have to play with the fonts a bit to make it look good. (Geez, I made this a good couple years ago, and I think this is the first opportunity I've had to distribute it.)

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I use CallStation from http://www.imptec.com/. I spent $40 on it a good 3 or 4 years ago and continue to receive updates. It's really easy to use, with a ton of options, including most of the ones you mentioned wanting.

If you have a modem with caller id (such as the Intel modem that comes with Dell computers) then it will announce the caller's name with the text-to-speech engine, show a popup (three settings available: big window, small window, or tray balloon.. the windows are skinnable, the tray balloon is best when you're playing games). You can record greetings or use the text-to-speech engine, with custom greetings and call handling by group, by individual phone numbers, and/or whether the number is available or not (blocked or out of area). So for example if the caller id info is blocked you can have it play a special message, and even just hang up on them if you want. You can also do things like set one-time personalized greetings so that if, for example, you're expecting a call from someone but have to run to the store, you can set a greeting that will play for only that person just once, then go back to normal.

I have it set on a schedule so that after my bedtime it will automatically start picking up right away and play a second greeting saying that we're sleeping now, and it won't make any external sound so that people leaving messages won't wake us up, and then goes back to normal in the morning.. the time it does this is also different on the weekends. I also have it set NOT to do this if our employers call, but they are the only exception.

It will also automatically detect fax calls and receive faxes, has a phone book (which it will use to display and announce the caller's info, overriding what the actual caller id says and allows multiple phone numbers per person), a phone dialer, "Do Not Disturb" mode, call monitoring, speakerphone, can send the caller id info over the network to another computer (or to all computers on the network, of course a client app is required but unfortunately won't let you listen to messages over the network), automatically page you or send an email when a call or message is received (it can also attach the soundfile of the message they left), and so on.

If you don't want all that then you can just use the voicemail, which is displayed like a list of email with the name, number, date, time, and comments from the phone book (if available), then you just double-click on the message to play it.

Of all the software I've used over the years, this has been, by far, my favorite and the one I get the most continual use from. I don't think I could go back to a regular answering machine anymore. It works well and is fairly straight forward to use.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Multi-boot default changer
« on: July 24, 2006, 11:48 AM »
Yup, been doing all that to date.

Thanks anyway.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Multi-boot default changer
« on: July 24, 2006, 11:03 AM »
Yeah, I've been doing it manually but it is a little annoying to do so each time I boot, and it would be great to just have it to it automatically, along with the other options of being able to quickly and easily choose safe mode and such. It may not seem like much, but it would be really nice when you're trying to multi-task between different machines on a KVM (especially).

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Multi-boot default changer
« on: July 23, 2006, 10:21 PM »
My test machine has 3 system partitions, 2 XP and 1 Win2003. Often while testing I will have to reboot, and sometimes I'll want to switch to a different machine while it does that (or I'll space off). What I've always wanted is to have a program that would run at startup and simply set the partition that has booted as the default and then exit. That way when I install something and have to reboot, I don't have to worry about selecting the right partition, it'll automatically go back to the last partition I was in.

In addition it would also be nice to be able to run the program manually to select the partition I want, along with some other options for booting into the different safe modes, VGA mode, load last known good config, and the others that show in the boot menu when you press F8 while booting.

Ideally it would be great if it could auto-install into all partitions. I would imagine that if this didn't need to create registry entries and such to install it could just be copied to the desktop, with shortcut in startup directory, for "all users" in each partition found.

I hope someone will take this one up.. it seems like it would be easy to do, and would be immensely useful to me :)

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One that I really like is ZoneTick. Very flexible/customizable but still easy to use. It's not free, but $25 for two licenses is not bad, IMO (I agree that many of the others are just too much). So far I like it better than any other that I have tried, especially since I need more than one because I work from home for a company overseas. The developer is also responsive, which is important to me. He's already implemented a few of my requests, which is great :)

http://zonetick.com/

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