A long time ago I was able to have a modem in my HTPC, when someone called I was able to see caller ID information on screen and see if I wanted to pick up the call
Once landlines started to die off I found a program called YAC which allowed me to run a program on my server hooked to a modem, which was hooked to a Bluetooth receiver. When someone called on my Cell it would be seen through the Bluetooth receiver go through the program and be sent out to any client on my network and pop up on screen to notify me of the call.
Now... none of that would work
What I would love to see is a windows 8 app that interfaces with our phones and displays call notifications, and possibly text notifications on screen on whatever device I am on at the time (kind of like the mail pop up notifications).
I know most of us keep our phones nearby, but I am trying to get away from that. All too often I am tempted to check to see if I have e-mail, or if I got a text, then I wander off and check imgur and so on and so forth and before I know it I missed what I was supposed to be watching, or what someone was saying to me while watching TV and using phone.
I think it would be great to be able to free myself a bit, and it would be wonderful to have this working so lets say I am watching TV on my HTPC and someone calls I see it and can decide if I want to go get the phone or not, or I then go upstairs on my PC, or my laptop or my tablet and can get notifications on there (obviously there would have to be a main "server" running the main program and the other clients would connect to it).
Anyone seen anything like this before? Think it would be possible for some nice program / app developer here to create it
Once landlines started to die off I found a program called YAC which allowed me to run a program on my server hooked to a modem, which was hooked to a Bluetooth receiver. When someone called on my Cell it would be seen through the Bluetooth receiver go through the program and be sent out to any client on my network and pop up on screen to notify me of the call.
Now... none of that would work
What I would love to see is a windows 8 app that interfaces with our phones and displays call notifications, and possibly text notifications on screen on whatever device I am on at the time (kind of like the mail pop up notifications).
I know most of us keep our phones nearby, but I am trying to get away from that. All too often I am tempted to check to see if I have e-mail, or if I got a text, then I wander off and check imgur and so on and so forth and before I know it I missed what I was supposed to be watching, or what someone was saying to me while watching TV and using phone.
I think it would be great to be able to free myself a bit, and it would be wonderful to have this working so lets say I am watching TV on my HTPC and someone calls I see it and can decide if I want to go get the phone or not, or I then go upstairs on my PC, or my laptop or my tablet and can get notifications on there (obviously there would have to be a main "server" running the main program and the other clients would connect to it).
Anyone seen anything like this before? Think it would be possible for some nice program / app developer here to create it