SMS Text Messaging From Your PC
With e-mail, texting, instant messengers, and social media available on multiple devices, some folks are not online or have their cell phone turned on.
If you're only able to use you PC, but your friends are on the go, what do you do? One possible solution is to send SMS text messages from your PC.
It's been used for years by IM services, like Yahoo and AOL, but they send messages to mobile phones in two way.
If your recipient has instant messaging (and a data plan), they can send messages to a friend on their PC and vice verse.
If not, a PC user can send a text to them by using their regular number.
Either way, this is one step forward to communicating over different platforms.
You also get a few perks from taking advantage of the feature as well.
It looks so sad when a person loses power on their cell phone in the middle of a conversation.
If they're at a PC, they can keep it going by texting through an IM client like nothing happened.
It's also good for office workers who can't take their eyes off the computer screen.
Typing is far better when using any kind of QWERTY keyboard, but sending text messages from you PC is the best.
It's mainly because of accuracy and comfort for some individuals.
If you want to send pictures or video, multimedia messages work the same way.
By sending one from your PC, you have the added memory from your hard drive to store all of your photo albums and home movies.
This way you don't have to lug every photo of the kids with you and have to sacrifice a podcast or their music playlists for space.
There is one difference with the two methods of text from the PC.
If you're sending a message from IM to mobile IM, this is done within the program of choice and over 3G or Wi-Fi.
There's no major difference between that and regular PC-to-PC instant messaging.
However, If you choose to send a text from your PC using a cell phone number, this will be sent over the normal mobile network.
Doing this may add text saying that the sender is using this IM service.
It can break up long messages if you not too careful, so keep it short when using this method.
It's an simple way to contact others that are on the go, but send text messages from your PC has a few benefits.
Since it's mainly geared towards instant messengers, It's best to use these programs on the phone if possible.
One extra benefit that helps the sender: free service.
It cost nothing extra to send or receive messages through IM to mobile IM.
So, if your friend had to drop his data plan, but can get free Wi-Fi on their phone, you can keep talking without throwing down extra cash.
Sending text messages from your PC to phone is a great feature to remember, both at the computer and on the go.