Best Phone App EVER.

I was recently given the opportunity to try out a great new mobile phone software, called Phone Guard. Now let me first say my vehicle when in motion is a No Texting Vehicle. I have been known to roll down my window, and tell others they should be paying more attention to the road, rather than looking down at their phone. Needless to say, there may be quite a few people on the Rhode Island roads that don't like me very well.

After only a couple of days of using this software, I was hooked. When the time comes that my girls are of driving age, and the age of when they jump in a friends car, they too will have this software loaded onto their phones. Phone Guard works in so many great ways that I could literally spend the next hour trying to explain it all, but I wont. I will however highlight some of its great parental AND employer features:

~ Text Disable Feature: Your phones texting capabilities will cease as soon as your car starts to move. Yes, it automatically disables as soon as you start to drive!

~ Time Out Feature: You set available times that your employee or child are allowed to text. Don't want your employees texting while at work or while your child is at school? You can disable texting during work or school hours!

~ Permission Control Feature: Want to know when they are texting? You can set up Phone Guard to request permission to text. Meaning your child or employee MUST ask permission first, to be able to text.

~ Auto Reply Feature: Phone Guard will automatically send a reply text, if a text is received while driving, letting the texter know that you will respond when it is safe to text.

~ Speed Control Feature: This is my favorite feature of all. You set the speed, and if your child or employee go OVER the speed set, you will get an alert! Now how cool is that?

Now, Phone Guard is not a free app. There are different softwares that will suit you. A single licence is $29.95, or purchase a 3 licence software for only $69.99. Now as a bargain hunter, I know when a purchase is a bargain or not. The question you have to ask yourself is, Is $30 or $70 a good bargain? Well is your life, your business, employee's lives or your children's lives worth $30 or $70? Mine is.

Once you purchase your software, there's no need to purchase again if you get a new phone. One simple phone call to customer service will transfer your software to your new phone.

So let's all start off 2011 with the same resolution. Make your vehicle a No Texting Vehicle!