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If you find your productive periods of work ever shrinking because of email, phone, and other interruptions, it's time to adopt a policy of scheduled replies.Photo by Mike "Dakinewavamon" Kline.

Google Voice hasn't been in the spotlight much since the iPhone debacle, but Google continues to pack on the features. If you're still not sure what Google Voice has to offer, here's Google's comprehensive Voice guide in video form.

iPhone/Palm Pre: Apple and/or AT&T don't want the Google Voice service to have its own iPhone app, and we think that stinks. Google is finally releasing the next best thing: a mobile site that basically replicates a dedicated Google Voice app.

Sure Google Voice already offers a significant improvement on your default voicemail, but they've just made it even better by speeding up voicemail access with two smart and simple improvements:

Google Chrome: Google Voice Notifier, one of the 18 extensions we loved at launch, has seen a major update. It now converts phone numbers on the web to automatic dialing links, and initiates calls and text messages from a drop-down box.

It's easy to leave a short and ineffective out-of-office message, especially when you're leaving it on the eve of a vacation or a conference you're excited to attend. Doing so however, just ensures more work upon your return. Photo by makelessnoise.

Ribbit Mobile, the voicemail and call-routing service that looks like a serious Google Voice rival, has launched an iPhone app to deliver voicemail transcripts with convenient call-back and SMS links, along with to-call list generation and other features.

Did Google Voice do a particularly good job with transcribing one of your voicemails? Could it not have been more off?