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We all have interesting SMS conversations from time to time, some of which can be quite funny or entertaining. What usually happens is you’ll start texting one of your friends back and forth, some funny comments will be made, and when you’re done that’s that. Your text conversation is then either deleted or buried amongst [...]
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Text messaging – especially among the younger crowd – is probably the number one thing we use our phones for. Think about that for a second. We use our phones, which were designed for calling people, to send text-based messages instead. That’s not to say we don’t call anyone, but texting has become second nature [...]
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There was a time when Blackberry users rubbed their Blackberry Messenger service in all of our faces, and rightfully so. Having a free means of contacting their friends, with nothing more than a pin number to send messages and avoid SMS charges from their carrier was something only they could enjoy. iPhone app developers caught [...]
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Do you compose text and email on your mobile phone? If you are an iPhone user, it would be a waste of features if you didn’t.  The problem is though that text and mail on the iPhone has left us little room for customization. Not to mention that writing on a small screen using your [...]
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There are a few free iPhone apps that allow iPhone users to connect with each other for free, using a functionality very similar to the much coveted Blackberry Messenger, like Ping! Lite and Whatsapp. The latest free app to hit the iTunes App Store makes it easy to keep in touch with all of your [...]
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My favorite thing about free products is the price – usually. SMSBackup for Android is an exception to this rule because I would pay real money in a heartbeat for an application as simple, efficient, and useful as this has proven to be to me. What this Android app does is allows me to back [...]
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In the first part of this article, we presented various ways for you to stay social on your regular cell phone thanks to SMS. SMS services abound nowadays and can make your regular mobile phone as reliable as smartphones without even the need for a data plan. It all depends on whether you’re aware of [...]
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As I said in my previous article about Using Your Cell Phone to Survive in the Wilderness, the reason why cell phones make for such good universal tools is because they are always with us. Rarely do I leave the house without mine, and when I do, I feel naked. They’ve become part of us. [...]
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With SMS messages becoming a key utility in today’s modern world, we are finding ourselves sending more and more of them. But the telecommunications industry is charging a fairly high price on 160 characters. So what can we do about it? We can send SMS messages for free, or for a very low price by [...]
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What’s the worst thing that can happen to us internet users next to a virus strike or a hard disk crash? All those who have gone through the woes and throes of losing a password will agree that it ranks alongside the other mind numbing strikes. And when the lost password is of a principal [...]
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I forget stuff. This is a fact. There is no way around it, my short term memory is shot ““ plain and simple! So, services like remindd (love that name!) are made for people like me! I set reminders in my calendar, I tape post its to my mirror ““ anything I can do, I [...]
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Want to learn how you can become a hero some day? Try using the new mobile Amber Alerts that are available for mobile phones across the world. When I was a kid, I remember dreaming about being a superhero. Then, as I got older, I was content with become a police officer – I mean, [...]
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In the first part of "Utilize Your Mac SMS" series, we discussed a SMS-based application to prevent Macbook theft. Now we will discuss other cool applications utilizing the Sudden Motion Sensor feature of Mac laptops.
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Yes it’s that time again, it’s time for a roundup of the latest and greatest Twitter apps whizzing their way around the internet.   Some of them useful, some of them just downright weird but nevertheless quite fun and addictive (which means I got no work done and instead wasted all my time on that particular [...]
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Want to send a short email to a friend and get it delivered to his/her cell phone as SMS? If you know your friends’ phone numbers and the carrier they are on then you can easily send emails to their cell phones directly from your email program. Here is how it works: Most of mobile [...]
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