While you are working on your computer, it is a big inconvenience to keep checking your phone for text messages and missed calls. Even if you have it on silent, you can feel like you are missing out on something important.

To remedy this, here are a couple of ways to view notifications you may normally only see on your phone.

Android phone notifier

The main reason to use Android phone notifier is so you can stay focused on your task at hand and not worry about missing an important call or text message. You can silence your phone or leave it in the other room while you work so you will not be tempted to check your messages every 5 minutes.

This is a 2 part application. You will need to install this on both your Android device and your computer. Here are those links:

Remote Notifier desktop download link

Remote Notifier phone application download link

Remote Notifier Android Market link

The easiest way to connect is Wi-Fi, which is what I  used for this demonstration. The WI-Fi setting setting on your Android phone can be accessed in the Wireless & networks tab in your settings menu.

If you keep your WI-Fi turned off to conserve battery life and do not want to turn it on when you get home, there is an option to have Remote Notifier turn on your Wi-Fi to send the notification when there is one to send.

Once you have both parts of the application installed, you will need to pair the 2 devices. You will need to make sure both your computer and your Android phone are connected to the same WI-Fi network.

There is an option in the settings on the phone to send a test notification or a PING to the computer.

In the settings, you can choose which notifications you want. You can choose notifications from text messages, phone calls, MMS (picture messages), battery warnings, voice mails and any other 3rd party app that supports this application.

The pop-up appears as a Windows-like system notification.

Google Talk messenger plug-in

Another way to get some of the notifications that would normally show up on your phone is to use a Google Voice plug-in for your browsers. This will display and potentially let you answer the call or reply to the SMS right from your computer.

I personally use the Google Talk messenger a lot these days. It offers video and audio chat options right from Gmail. When someone sends me a SMS or calls my Google Voice number, there is a pop-up on the computer screen. This means I can keep working while I am talking to someone.

Depending on what you do for work or how easily distracted you may be, having pop-ups like these may help you greatly focus on what the task at hand versus wondering is you missed something important.

What other options are there for receiving phone notifications on your computer?

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Microblogging has because pretty popular recently with Twitter being the best known of these services. I personally haven’t signed up for Twitter specifically, however the basic concept has spread to other services. I’ve never been a big fan of personal blogging, but I’ve found over time that my GMail status messages tend to give a pretty good idea of what I’m up to. I also use the status message as an excuse to share some of my favorite quotes and links. A while back, I decided to try to record all of my status messages so that I could go back later and find an old link I posted, or see what day it was that I had made an announcement. I began looking online for a service that would automatically read my GMail status message and log it for future use.

I never found exactly what I was looking for, but I did find juick.com. Yes, it’s in Russian, but that actually doesn’t really cause a problem for what we’re going to be doing today.

Juick is a web service that takes XMPP messages and creates a microblog using those messages as entries in the blog. There’s no registration, no signup, no hassle. You simply send a XMPP message to “juick@juick.com” and it creates a blog based on the username you sent from and begins recording submissions.

1. Add “juick@juick.com” to your contact list in your Jabber client or GMail.
2. Prepare whatever message you want juick to record
3. Send your message

That’s it. Juick will respond immediately telling you the message has been posted, and will provide you with a web address to view your new entry. To view your blog as a whole, send juick a message with just the word “LOGIN” (all caps) and it will reply with a link to your blog.

Without any hassle, I can now record all my witty remarks and Beastie Boys quotes in one place. Ideally, I’d like something that would automatically read my status messages and update the blog on its own, but with juick there’s just one additional step of pasting my status message into a chat box.

Those who have Twitter accounts may want to take a look at tweet.IM. I haven’t tried it as I don’t have a Twitter account, but it looks to be about the same type of thing as what we’ve talked about today.

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