I recently heard of one of those types of amazing applications that make me wonder how people dream them up. This is for a Smartphone and it’s the kind if thing that brings some real fun to technology.
On these mini computers you can download an incredible amount of applications for just about anything. The most wonderfully devious I’m learning about is called “Fake Call”. In my humble opinion, I think the person who wrote this program is nothing short of a genius. And a very clever one at that. Dubbed as “A secret weapon against boring meetings and bad dates, the folks at www.trinkesofware.com/fakacall/ have a program that helps you escape social and business situations by sending yourself an incoming call. You can schedule a call in advance or generate one on demand. It has user interface that simulates the entire calling experience, complete with call progress timers and pictures of the “caller”. Your phones Talk and End buttons work just like they do on a real call.
Now this is progress! In the old days, say 12 months ago, when technology had not advanced so far, I utilized a rudimentary strategy to rid my office of jaw-flapping visitors. I would send an email from my laptop to my Blackberry and act like it was a phone call. But that is such an old trick, right? I need to upgrade my sneakiness with “FakeCall”.
