GV Connect

Are you looking for an easy way to call or send SMS messages to your contacts using your Google Voice number right from your fingertips? GV Connect is your answer:

• Call or send SMS messages to anyone from your computer's Address Book database or your Google Contacts (or by manually entering any other phone number) right from your Dashboard.
• Select which of your registered phone numbers should be called to initiate the call.
• See total number of unread messages in your Google Voice inbox.
• See your currently available balance for making international calls.
• Verify location and local time of the number you call to avoid waking up people in the middle of the night.
• Quick links to directly open your Google Voice inbox, billing history, and phone setup pages.
• En-/disable forwarding numbers and do-not-disturb status for your GV number.
• Growl notifications for new incoming SMS and voicemails (optional, requires Growl installation).

What is new in this release:

• Improve geo-location based on phone number for US & CA numbers the widget will now display the city for a given phone number if possible.
• Fix display of callback number names when the names includes certain non-ASCII characters.
• Work around a CoreNetworking bug in MacOS X 10.7 (Lion) which prevented the widget from logging into Google Voice.
• Update the widget icon to be consistent with the GV Connect iOS application.
• Update the homepage link to point to new URL.
• Various stability improvements.

Requirements:

Google Voice account