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Voice Mac is a native Google Voice client for OS X
by Jay Hathaway Nov 5th 2009 at 10:00AM
We recently told you about an Adobe AIR-based Google Voice client with a pretty small featureset. It puts your SMS and voicemail messages close at hand on your desktop, but that's all it does. If you're on a Mac, though, you can do a bit better. Voice Mac is a Google Voice client with a threaded SMS view, voicemail downloading, and the ability to make calls and send texts, and Address Book integration.
Voice Mac is certainly not gorgeous, but it has a ton of functionality.
There's an SMS and voicemail/call history browser, and it also has a built-in reverse phone lookup, so you can try to figure out who any mystery calls are from. If you don't use your Voice account frequently, the web interface might be fine for you, but if you're a Voice addict - especially one who uses SMS constantly - Voice Mac is worth a download.
[via Lifehacker]
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Joshua said 11:19AM on 11-05-2009
Another great solution, and one even lighter on resources, is the GV Connected Dashboard widget. Check it out here:
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/DashBoard.html
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