VoIP company Jaxtr has added a new module that lets uses send free text messages to any cellphone from their Jaxtr homepage. There's no fee for sending the message, but if the recipient has to pay per message, you might want to think twice before sending dozens of messages a day. Unless you hate the person you're texting, of course.We first covered Jaxtr way back in 2006 when the company released a tool for blogger and web publishers to embed a widget on their web sites that let visitors place calls to the web site author. You can also add a Jaxtr widget to social networking pages like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Orkut.
Honestly, we don't know too many people who want to take phone calls all day from visitors to their web sites or social networking profiles. But now that we've discovered the free SMS service, we can actually see ourselves using Jaxtr on a regular basis.
[via Digital Inspiration]
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4-16-2008 @ 8:39PM
The Cang said...
Looks like a cool widget, but I still find emailing SMS messages (since I don't have a text plan) to be super useful. It's easier plus the recipient can reply easily.
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4-17-2008 @ 7:43AM
Surp said...
What do you mean by emailing SMS messages? I'd be great if Outlook would allow you to SMS people gratis (or if it can, how do I do it?).
4-17-2008 @ 1:56AM
John F. said...
To answer Surp's question, here's how to do that with U.S. Wireless carrier email-to-SMS gateways:
Verizon Wireless (10 digit number)@vtext.com
T-Mobile (10 digit number)@tmomail.net
Cingular (10 digit number)@mobile.mycingular.com
Sprint PCS (10 digit number)@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Another tool similar to the Jaxtr and Yahoo SMS tools is GizmoSMS:
http://www.gizmosms.com
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4-17-2008 @ 7:49AM
Hylic said...
Personaly I've been using yahoo to send sms's from my machine
http://sites.mobile.yahoo.com/sms/sendsms
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