Google Voice offers a really compelling set of voicemail features, much better than what US cellphone carriers offer.

You can view, search, and listen to your voicemails from any phone or web browser, with textual transcripts generated using automatic speech recognition.

Assuming you’re lucky enough to be on in the Google Voice beta, and have a GSM phone, here’s how you can replace your regular voicemail service with Google voicemai. (The Call forwarding entry in Wikipedia has a helpful list of GSM call forwarding codes.)

1. First, call *#67# and write down the resulting number, which is your current voicemail call forwarding number. This will let you go back to your old service later if you want to.

2. Next call the following numbers, where [phone number] is your Google voice phone number. (I’m assuming that you have your Google Voice account set up to go directly to voice mail.)

*67*[phone number]# (forward if busy)
*61*[phone number]# (forward if not answered)
*62*[phone number]# (forward if out of reach)

3. That’s it, your carrier will automatically forward calls to Google Voice when you can’t be reached. To undo the forwarding, just redo these steps, replacing phone number with your original voicemail number.

For my work, I’ve been looking for a good proxy in the UK so that I can test our geoip lookup.

superproxy.co.uk is definitely to be avoided for most applications.

First, it’s not a proper HTTP proxy; instead it’s a CGI script that you access via a web page.

Second, it doesn’t support https pages. That means that you can’t access most sites that require a login via https. (If it were a true proxy, you could at least login without the proxy and then enable it, but the web page proxy doesn’t have access to your browser cookies for the site.)

Finally, superproxy.co.uk refused my request for a refund.

The Proxy does not claim to be SSL and as such is as claimed on the site.
I am very sorry that you did nto take the time to read the website before signing up.

The site simply doesn’t describe the limitations of their offering.

I’m continuing to dispute the charge via PayPal but am not optimistic about my chances.

The Beyond411 server went down and one of the mysql tables used by Beyond411 is in need of repair; I’ll post when Beyond411 is back up.

Update: Mostly back up, autocompletions are still not fully repaired but most will be served out of cache so you might no notice.