What worked to get Google Voice on my USA cell phone with a European Google account, didn’t work for the top “Tidal” listings Tides Near Me and Tide Charts FREE (I didn’t bother checking any payed hanitaro app).
Apparently truckloads of developers think it is wise to limit their application to a certain geographic region, excluding all tourists as potential customers.
Fine: I installed “Florida Tide Times” and it works well, especially the built-in map makes it really easy to use.
I wanted this because we were staying at Sanibel Island (Florida) and wanted to do some low-tide shelling (some love shelling) as that’s the best time to find many and inspect both the living creatures, and collect dead shells.
Lesson: make your app available as widely as possible or you will miss customers.
Back to Google Voice
If you have a USA phone number, you can apply for a free Google Voice number that can make free USA phone calls (and a lot more) from either the Google Voice app, or voice.google.com in your internet browser with intuitive shortcut key support, the Chrome plugin or even from GMail using the https://mail.google.com/mail/?voice URL. Read the rest of this entry »
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