Here’s another solution to help find that lost cell phone that lurks somewhere in the house. Now that you can use Gmail / Google Voice to make free calls from your computer, you can log into Gmail and dial your cellphone number, then follow the sound of your ring tone. I’m usually logged into Gmail anyway, I use my Gcalendar and Gmail throughout the day.
Of course, if you have the ringer turned off, you’re still out of luck. So, at least leave the vibrate setting on.
Lifehacker turned me on to this cell phone finding solution in the post Eight Clever Ways to Take Advantage of Free Calling in Gmail
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I lose my cell phone so often that I’m considering changing my voice mail announcement to, “… please leave a message so I can call you back as soon as I can find my cell phone.”
I don’t have a land line and have one cell phone, so locating the my misplaced cell means I have to ask someone else to call me. But, I’m a web worker and often there’s no one around to do this favor for me. I just picked up a tip from Netted by the Webbies that will be really useful: WheresMyCellPhone. Enter your cell number and click on “make it ring” to find the lost device. Being that there’s always a laptop up and running somewhere in this house, WheresMyCellPhone would be very convenient.
One of the first things I thought about when I went out to the WheresMyCellPhone site was security. If I enter my cell number, am I going to get cell spam in the future? The service has been covered by some very reliable ‘Net sources, so I’m thinking that it’s legit.
Have you used WheresMyCellPhone? Let me know what you think.
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