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Send Email Text to Phone for Free

Here is how it works:

Most of mobile carriers offer free Email To SMS gateways which can be used to forward simple text emails to a mobile phones. And the good news, majority of those gateways are free and available to the general public.

You just need to know the number and the carrier of the recipient to start emailing them to mobile phone. Below we put together a table listing free email to SMS gateways for different carriers. You can use as quick reference both for US and international mobile numbers.

Free Email To SMS Gateways (Major US Carriers)

Free Email To SMS Gateways (International + Smaller US)

These are all I could find from Wikipedia and other sources. If you’re aware of any other ones please share them in comments and I’ll add them to the list.

UPDATES:

If you can’t find a gatewayd for your current provider here, check out following links:

• http://www.tech-faq.com/send-text-messages-free.shtml
• http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-to-sms/gateway-list/
• http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm

If you are aware of any other free sms to email gateways please add it in comments. Also let us know whether you tried any of the above and your experience with it.

Swype: A New Touch Screen Typing Method

When text messaging first got really big around fifteen years ago, people thought it was the definitive way of sending a quick message across the globe. Then the T9 predictive text dictionary came out and it suddenly became ten times better.

Now, from the creators of the T9 prediction dictionary, we have Swype. A new way of inputting text on a touch screen phone. It works by rapidly swiping your finger around on the screen and stopping on relevant letters. This removes the need for tapping and as such reduces the amount of time it takes to write a message or e-mail. The first phone which will have this will be the Samsung Omnia II, which is due for release shortly.

Here is a leaked video which was obtained by TechCrunch. It’s a race between Swype and traditional tapping method – the results are definitive.

Twitter Client Marketshare, Which Do You Use?

TwitStat’s current top 10 list is below, showing ranking and % of users posting from each service today. Note that where users made use of multiple methods, all were counted. The list is constantly changing, and the Top 100 can be found here.

1 Web – 29.57%

2 TweetDeck – 10.58%

3 Twitterfeed – 5.54%

4 Twhirl – 4.92 %

5 Twitterrific – 3.79 %

6 Tweetie – 3.65%

7 Text – 3.40 %

8 Mobile web 3.00 %

9 TwitterFon – 2.96 %

10 TwitPic – 2.94 %

ChaCha: Human Powered Mobile Answers

Chacha is a mobile service that is trying to enter the competitive market of mobile search. Mobile search is currently thought of as an online product, so Google or Yahoo search for example, but mobile search can also mean that you get the answers without having to go online. How does that work? Well in the case of Chacha all you have to do is send them a text message with a question and they response seconds later with the answer.

Simply text your question to 242242™ (spells ‘ChaCha’) or call 1-800-2ChaCha™ (800-224-2242) from your mobile phone to ask any question and you will receive the answer as a text message. If you have a web browser on your phone, just click on the short website link that’s also included with your answer to see a reference website with more information. Since ChaCha uses human guides, you can easily reply with follow-on questions as if you are exchanging messages with a friend.

TNX: The Best Text Link Marketplace On The Web

TNX is a text sales marketplace, but as I have found out, it is also a whole lot more. The site itself and services are very similar to Text-Link-Ads, but with so many more features and opportunities to make your site a lot more profitable.

The TNX system is based upon a points system, where more points are required to purchase links on pages. One text link can be purchased for as little as 1 point, with 1000 points available for just over a dollar. TNX currently has over 46000 members and they have sold over 25 million links.

The main advantage for a publishers within the system is the option onnot only selling text links on your home page, but also selling them individually on each page, this making your potential profit a lot higher. Additionally, publishers can also manually accept or deny advertisers through the platform, allowing a lot more control over inventory and keep relevance within their pages. As we all know Google dont like the companies or publishers who sell text links, thus publisher control their relevance and also advertisers can use a special tool from TNX to make all text links Google acceptable.

Finally, TNX have a great Partner (affiliate) program which allows publishers to place banners on their sites and make 13.3% TNX points made by their referrals. These points can quickly add up and will allow you to place a great deal more text links throughout the sector.

TNX is on the rise and is by far the best Text marketplace out there. Make sure you head over and give it a try today.

Google Page Rank to be Affected by Text Link Ads

I have been reading around the blogosphere today and there seems to be a buzz around Google and if they are dropping PageRankings due to sites selling Text Link Ads. Google has admited to SearchEngineLand that if sites sell text links then their page rankings might drop. I have noticed that a few month ago Crenk was a PR4 and now since i have added Text Link Ads it has dropped to a PR1, for no real reason. Who else has been seeing a drop in traffic and or page rank?