Posts Tagged ‘sms’

How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Your iPhone Bill

Apple has manufactured the telecom’s dream: a phone that will rack up a massive bill all too easily. To begin with, we’ve got a phone that basically sells itself on its ability to surf the Internet and download data. If you’re with AT&T, you’re all good and dandy on that point (unless you’re on international roaming), but for most of us throughout the world—including the Australian company my phone is with… Continue reading

July 28 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: data, iphone, Money, sms | 9 comments»

Use Your Mobile Phone to Stay Organized On the Go

Like my geek ancestors before me, I am deeply devoted to my Moleskine notebook. I keep one in my backpack or in my back pocket at all times, with a range of suitable pens that make writing a joy (I'm a fan of the fine-tipped pigment pens favored by illustrators). For quick notes and thinking time, there's nothing better.

But I'm also a big fan of doing things efficiently, which… Continue reading

May 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: mms, mobile-phone, phone, sms, text-messaging, web-app | 14 comments»

Saving Time on Routine Tasks: Optimized Writing

Last time we looked at saving time on routine tasks, we found a few ways to optimize our reading process. Today, we're covering the opposite side of the same coin with optimized writing. Technically, we'll spend more time on optimizing your typing than writing, but in this day and age there's really not much of a difference. Using your computer, by nature, involves writing. You no doubt write something at… Continue reading

May 21 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: efficiency, email, instant messenger, optimization, sms, writing | 6 comments»

Five ways to SMS for free

In case you didn't know, SMS is the fancy term for text messaging. If you love sending texts but hate paying the $.10 or $.15 per text, GigaOM gives you five alternatives that allow you to text for free. A lot of us are still avid text messagers, not because we enjoy paying our carrier those tiring toll (or package) fees, but because it’s still one… Continue reading

March 14 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: cellphone, sms, Technology | 5 comments»

SMS ToDo Lists

With our featured article on introducing Twitter as a To Do List, Ben Mattes also has similar setup, with an emphasis on using Twitter's SMS feature to setup a SMS todo list: The great thing with Twitter (as I hinted at above) is that you can add ‘tweets’ via SMS. Once you have created an account and signed in, you need simply connect your phone to your twitter account… Continue reading

February 19 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: Productivity, sms, todo | no comments»

Send Free SMS from PC or cellphone

GoFreeSMS is yet another new SMS service on the web. The difference is that it supports many countries around the world, and it also has a flashy interface (literally, it uses Flash 9). It also have some minor features like contact list, folders to track what you've sent and received. If you have a mobile phone with Flash Lite player, you could use its mobile version to send… Continue reading

August 7 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: sms, software, web | 110 comments»

Free Google SMS Text Message

The recently released Google Toolbar supports free SMS sending, but this is only for Internet Explorer at the moment. Firefox users are pretty disppointed on this because they are missing this cool feature. Looks no further, you can actually access the feature by a web address. Thanks Joe for the news. Send a Text Message to Your Mobile Phone - [Google]… Continue reading

February 3 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: online, sms, software | 11 comments»