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Five ways to SMS for free

Admit it, you're addicted to text-messaging, right? Well someone is, because lately I've been bombarded with ads proclaiming a national epidemic of texting and related fees. Won't someone think of the children! Well maybe someone has, or maybe all this is just silly. Why not send a bunch of text messages for free? I mean, that's what the web is all about, right? Free stuff? As in beer?

Katie over at GigaOM wrote up a neat little roundup of some free SMS tools you can use to send out for free. She points out the usual caveats: these services could be used for nefarious purposes (spam), and often it costs the recipient some cash to get a message. So use it wisely or wind up on some silly national TV ad.

Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet, Web services

Collaborate with web tools at Protolize

web toolsIf you are a developer or designer looking for a list of great tools, check out the Protolize database. Tony has archived a listing of the most current and useful web tools. With categories ranging from CSS, Javascript, Ajax, PHP, Ruby, Flash, CMS, and Inspiration, you will surely get cooking with some top grade code. Each link is rated, and most contain a little description of what it works for as well as user reviews. Protolize is also quite pleasing to navigate with its sexy web 2.0 style. If you don't find what you're looking for on the site, or want to submit your site for inclusion in the directory, Protolize does have a submission form. Tip: Check out the Top Rated category for some real fresh stuff!

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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