TxtDrop now has a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget available for Mac OS X users.
With TxtDrop’s new widget you can send completely free text messages to the US and Canada, right from your desktop and receive replies to your messages at your desired email address.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later and an active internet connection.
More info and download link here.
Related article:
Use Apple iChat to text message with cell phones – August 21, 2006
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can’t you already do this through iChat?
mark,
Hence MDN’s related article citation above.
mark,
Yes. And now you can do it via Dashboard as well.
mark ..
You can send a text msg to a cell phone with iChat ??
Im not raggin on ya, Ive just never heard about that before..
If so … anyone know how to do this ?
ahh, sorry, I missed the link above ..
apologies for the temp brain fart
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why only US & Can…?
Stupid question number two: Doesn’t it still cost money to get the txt message on the receiving cell phone?
would be sweet to be able to do it here in sweden as well!
SMS Widget has been doing this for a long time now. http://keakaj.com/sms.htm
@ mr. peabody
yes it does – usually like 15¢ per message. Most people have a subscription such as what I have of $5 a month for 300 txt messages.
I never thought of myself using such a ‘dumb’ service, but it is really a nice feature…
What is this widget arrives on the iphone…
People do not see yet what the iphone can and will be…
It’s pretty slick. There is a 145 character limit, but it’s not bad. It only took 7 seconds to reach my phone.
Speaking of texting…did you ever fart so hard you ended up in another zip code?
For Oh My,
To SMS from iChat enter +1xxxxxxxxxx with x’s representing phone number with area code. Have fun, just don’t get too crazy wit it!
i am in Canada and it doesn’t work!!!
You can do this with any email client.
just send any email to:
nnnnnnnnnn@serviceprovider.xxx
where:
n… is the telephone number of the cell phone
serviceprovider is the name of cell service provider
and
xxx is the domain root (usually .com or .net)
for example 1234567890@verizon.net would send the email to whomever had the cell number 123-456-7890 provided that Verizon was the service carrier.
or you could just call them…
Seriously LOL @ TT
Iam still amazed that in the US you have to pay to recive messages and sms, everything whit phones seems much more expensive over the pond. I pay about 25 bucks and then I get free sms for a month and I get to call for the full worth of the 25.
This is hardly breaking news, as there are already several Widgets which do this, and they have been around for a while now too.
Oh great! Another way to receive spam text messages! This is why I had my carrier turn of text messages on my account.
“I pay about 25 bucks and then I get free sms for a month and I get to call for the full worth of the 25.”
Okay, but how much did you pay for the phone itself? And how much are you paying to call long distance?
In the US, I pay about 50 bucks a month and get 450 calling minutes during weekdays (which I never use all of), unlimited late night and weekend calling, unlimited calling to people with the same mobile carrier, nationwide long distance calling and roaming for no extra charge (just uses minutes if it’s during the day, free on weekends), and 250 free SMS messages during the month. The phone is a Bluetooth, 3G phone (unlimited 3G data usage would be an extra $15 a month, but I opted out of that) with camera and video and I think I paid $60 or $70 bucks for it.
Now some of this may be overkill, but I wouldn’t say that I’m getting less per dollar.