Smartphone privacy is of little concern to many of us – after all, who else is going to be using our personal devices beside us? What have we got to hide from ourselves? While this is true, there’s always the possibility of a snooper or thief gaining access to your phone, and in this instance [...]
Losing your beloved smartphone is an incident that nobody would ever want to experience. Fortunately though, you can download some apps that can help you locate your missing phone, or even remotely wipe your device during the worst-case scenario, in order to protect the important data that is saved in it. aeGis is an Android [...]
Considering how attached we’ve become to our smartphones due to their usefulness, it is hard to imagine most people who are not constantly with their phone – at home, at work, in bed, even in the shower. So you are expected to almost instantly answer messages and reply to calls. However, there are situations when [...]
Great novelists and writers are successful, to a great degree, in capturing feelings and emotions through text. Most of us, however, are not great novelists and writers. The form of text through which we mostly communicate with are text messages. Thus even if we were exceptional writers, using long sentences to describe our feelings would [...]
The Internet has provided us with various means to communicate with our friends, coworkers, and family members. Examples include online forums, emails, and online social networks. But the quickest way perhaps is instant online messaging. Using IM clients, all you have to do is send a message and as long as the client is active [...]
Have you ever been stuck in a lengthy conversation with a business representative? Such situations make you wish that you could simply text businesses instead of having to call them. Here to make your wish come true is a service called TalkTo. TalkTo is a user-friendly web service for desktop Internet and smartphone users. The [...]
Do you want to send a friend a “happy birthday” text as soon as it is midnight? If yes, then you need to get a message scheduling application that will help you out in similar situations. If you own an Android smartphone, check out an app called Titan Message Scheduler. Titan Message Scheduler is a [...]
Predictive text input and autocorrect options are now built into many modern phones. However the algorithms used by such functions are not very accurate and end up wasting time rather than saving it. Here to help solve this problem is an iOS application called Fleksy. Fleksy is a free to use smartphone application for iOS [...]
SMS Faker lets you trick people by showing them fake SMS conversations displayed on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. To try it yourself, download the free app from the App store. Once you have it on your iPhone, open the app and enter a fake name (ex: John, see below) into a conversation and [...]
When you are sending sensitive messages which you do not want shared with anybody, you do not want there to be any record of the message. One way to achieve this would be to have your messages expire after a time limit. Here to help you do that is a phone app called Wickr. Wickr [...]
Do you prefer typing on your computer’s keyboard instead of your Android’s touchscreen? Maybe you have a job where you have to keep your phone tucked away and you still want to be able to text your friends and relatives. Whatever your reason for wanting to text from your computer, Zipwhip is an app that [...]
Delighta is a useful service that lets you access a handful of Google services via SMS commands on your mobile, which is especially useful in a place with no mobile Internet access. Using Delighta you can create SMS groups, backup SMS messages to a Google spreadsheet, make/edit appointments in your Google calendar, enter data into [...]
Checking your e-mail with your phone is a standard feature of most smartphones. However, this convenience has a major drawback as it can quickly consume your monthly data plan if you frequently check your e-mail. MailBliss is a web service that can help you solve this problem and improve your mobile emailing experience by providing [...]
People who are forgetful of things could greatly use a tool that reminds them of important tasks and events. While many online tools exists that provide you with this feature, very few offer simple yet widespread support for multiple platforms. Remindeo is one of those good few services. Remindeo is a free to use web [...]
If you are sitting in your home, it is always easier to type on a computer keyboard than it is from the touch screen keyboard on your Android device. That is why SMS From PC exists. It gives you an easy to use way to read and send messages from your computer, without ever picking [...]
Texting while walking or driving is never a good idea, but if you absolutely have to do it, TransparentScreen can make it much more safer for you. This simple and free app, makes your home screen transparent so you can look at your phone, while at the same time looking at the road in front [...]
TextPort is a simple web service that lets you send text messages to any US based mobile phones. It works for most US based carriers and is a completely free service. You also have the option to include your email address so the mobile phone user can send a response. The mobile phone user can [...]
There are many ways to send information like links, notes, etc from your computer to your smartphone. But if your phone is not a smartphone then things become a little bit difficult. Text This to Me is a Chrome extension that wants to make life easier in such situations. It installs a small blue phone [...]
Have you ever wished for an easier way to have a group chat with your friends via text message? Some phones support it, and other don’t, but with BeGrouped everyone can take part. BeGrouped is an easy way to build a group and allow everyone to easily communicate with each other seamlessly and easily. BeGrouped [...]
Teachers out there know how hard it can be to keep their students engaged. Many children own mobile phones now. It seems like kids are more interested in their mobile phones than the real world. It’s impossible for a teacher to fight it, so a service like Class Pager is useful. With Class Pager, teachers [...]