Blackbirdws6zzz
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After years of using hot-mail & yahoo email accounts, i switched over to Gmail. And I have never looked back. I can’t even stand the time it takes to load your inbox page, with all the graphics/ads and pure crap that has to load with it. What is also awesome about Gmail is that they never stop improving it.
They have this thing called Gmail Labs, where you can try out special little tools to help productivity. Here are some examples: Mouse gestures, Keyboard Shortcuts, In Browser Chat, Labels, Canned Responses, Calendar Gadgets, Google Doc gadgets, and the most recent to be added, Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat.
I was really excited about this in October when they released it, but they quickly pulled back the launch after a bug was found by the google team just fooling around. But tonight, it finally re-appeared.
Googler Leo Dirac writes:
“We’re just trying it out for cell phones in the United States right now, but you can send texts to your friends with US phone numbers from anywhere in the world. You can start by just typing a phone number or into the search box in the chat window on the left, then select “Send SMS.” You can also select the contact you want to SMS first and then add their phone number.”
“On the receiving end, when you get a text message from Gmail on your phone, it will come from a number in the 406 area code. (The l33t folks in the crowd will note that this spells G0O.) You can reply to this text on your phone just like you’d reply to any other text. The reply gets routed back to our Gmail servers and shows up in your friend’s Gmail chat window. Each of your friends’ messages will come from a different 406 number so you can reply to any message and it will get back to the right person. Messages from the same person will always come from the same number, so you can even bookmark it in your phone.”
Not only is this a great way to get to friends on the go when you’re at your computer, but it’ll also save you sent message charges on your own phone bill.
http://www.joshuaschaible.com/?p=329
They have this thing called Gmail Labs, where you can try out special little tools to help productivity. Here are some examples: Mouse gestures, Keyboard Shortcuts, In Browser Chat, Labels, Canned Responses, Calendar Gadgets, Google Doc gadgets, and the most recent to be added, Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat.
I was really excited about this in October when they released it, but they quickly pulled back the launch after a bug was found by the google team just fooling around. But tonight, it finally re-appeared.
Googler Leo Dirac writes:
“We’re just trying it out for cell phones in the United States right now, but you can send texts to your friends with US phone numbers from anywhere in the world. You can start by just typing a phone number or into the search box in the chat window on the left, then select “Send SMS.” You can also select the contact you want to SMS first and then add their phone number.”
“On the receiving end, when you get a text message from Gmail on your phone, it will come from a number in the 406 area code. (The l33t folks in the crowd will note that this spells G0O.) You can reply to this text on your phone just like you’d reply to any other text. The reply gets routed back to our Gmail servers and shows up in your friend’s Gmail chat window. Each of your friends’ messages will come from a different 406 number so you can reply to any message and it will get back to the right person. Messages from the same person will always come from the same number, so you can even bookmark it in your phone.”
Not only is this a great way to get to friends on the go when you’re at your computer, but it’ll also save you sent message charges on your own phone bill.
http://www.joshuaschaible.com/?p=329
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