I have to admit, I’ve considered myself “honored” for having been a part of the GrandCentral beta for the past couple of years.

In a nutshell, GrandCentral gave you a (free) phone number for life, let you route that number to any combination of phones (landline, and/or cell), and a unified voicemail system that notified you when you had a message.

Google bought GrandCentral in 2007, and nothing much happened to the service… Most followers thought it died.

Last week, Google announced (in typical, unnecessarily mysterious, vague, and cryptic Google fashion) that GrandCentral was being re-launched as “Google Talk.”

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Every now and again, there’s a cool little app that comes-along, and makes life easier.

Let me introduce, “Affixa.”

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Chris Wood in the UK (Affixa’s developer) over the past months, and now that the beta is done, and the product is in release, I have to rave.

Download Affixa now!

Affixa lets you make your web-based email application your system’s default email client (right-click a file, and send using Gmail, or Yahoo…).

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