Comments on: Tricks with Grand Central (Modern Phone part 1/3)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:34:14 +0000

I had JUST read how anyone can get a number now through blogger (also owned by google). Here’s the link:
http://www.grandcentral.com/signup/find_phones

By: Jed

Jed — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:30:24 +0000

Bad news Rob- looks like GC has yanked our invites! Hopefully they’ll come back soon…

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:39 +0000

grand central sounds great. Great blog! If you have any invites left, I would like one. Thanks

By: Michael | Family Hack

Michael | Family Hack — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:21:44 +0000

Jed,

Thanks for the tip on reversing the GC forwarding. I started using GC several months ago but still have plenty of clients who still call my old phone number. I’m sure they just never updated their speed dial, but it robs me of the useful GC features. Your tip will have me sitting pretty with GC.

Thanks again,
Michael
http://www.familyhack.com

By: sterling | bizlift blog

sterling | bizlift blog — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:57:21 +0000

I didn’t realize I could forward my cell # to GC then back again. I’m on Sprint (not AT&T), but I’ll check out your part 2 anyway. Thanks for the tip!

GC is almost identical to the V-Link “one-number” service that I’ve been using since ‘99. Except V-Link also comes w/ a toll-free # and handles faxes. I used to work for the company, but it went under and they sold their technology in ‘02.

One new thing I like about GC is the web button to generate a call. I put one on http://www.longokura.com and they’ve picked up several new clients through it.

By: Jed

Jed — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:48:19 +0000

@Mike-
The phone I send into the “round trip” is actually AT&T. Please see my updates in part 2 of this little series for some potential tips.

@Sean-
It’s on its way!

By: Mike Murray

Mike Murray — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:51:58 +0000

Maybe it’s a T-Mobile thing, but I’m on AT&T and it’s not intelligent enough to allow me to forward my cell to GC. If I forward to GC, all of my GC calls go directly to voicemail – seems that the service does indeed end up in some sort of infinite loop.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:39:57 +0000

@Jed – Love an invite to join…

Keep up the great work!

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Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:31:53 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:11:12 +0000

Wow. Thanks! I’ll keep you posted on my results.

By: Jed

Jed — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:57:06 +0000

@Dave- Just sent you an invite. I’ve still got a few more invitations if anybody is interested.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:01:55 +0000

Sounds pretty interesting. I’ve been trying to join Grand Central after reading 4hww but I guess it’s still a private beta?

By: Jed

Jed — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:23:47 +0000

@Sarah- Yeah, the first time I tried it I worried that I’d bring the system crashing to its knees due to an into an infinite loop. Fortunately, it’s smart enough to figure it all out!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:25:15 +0000

I had the same major issue with Grand Central – the fact that they don’t have number portability yet. But otherwise I LOVE it.

So I dont get how the forwarding works for you. If someone calls your cell, it forwards to you GC, which forwards to your cell. Wouldn’t your cell then forward BACK to GC in an infinite loop?! Do you do anything special? Or the phones just figure it out somehow