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How to Get Free Rollover Minutes from AT&T
The rumors are true. If you’re an AT&T iPhone user, you can get 1,000 free rollover minutes by texting YES to 11113020 by March 31, 2011. That’s all you need to do. What are you waiting for? Unless you’re reading this post long after the offer is valid. In which case, don’t you wish you [...]
Android Text Message Bug
The newly discovered SMS bug in Android sure makes “Antennagate” look like it was much ado about nothing. This interesting little snafu will have you sending messages to the wrong contacts. Think about it for a moment – this could be disastrous, depending on who your intended message ends up going to. This issue has [...]
How to Send SMS Text Messages to Groups of Friends
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed So what is Tatango? It’s a free site that allows you to text message umpteen-billion people at once. Standard texting rates will apply, of course. If you have something important to say, why not tell everyone all at once? There are [...]
How to Send Free SMS Text Messages on the iPhone or iPod
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Hopefully within a few weeks, InfiniteSMS will be available in iTunes. That will allow you to send free SMS messages from your iPhone or iPod Touch. The App isn’t free, but the texts you send from it will be. Once the [...]
How to Get Emoji Emoticons in iPhone SMS Messages Easily
Hat tip to iJustine (and Brent for letting me know): Buy http://go.tagjag.com/emoji in iTunes (.99c) Install and click through any story in the app. Go navigate through the iPhone’s Settings: General | International | Keyboards | Japanese | toggle Emoji to on SMS emoji graphics to anyone else who uses an iPhone – just click [...]
Top 10 Things that Twitter Can Do
According to nobody, here are the top ten things that Twitter can do: Balance the national budget Detect the presence of anthrax Bullseye womprats Lower your mortgage payment Find lost pets Forge a parent’s signature Slice bread (NOTE: rye only) Debbie Set us up the bomb Cure cancer Okay, so maybe some items are a [...]
Instant SMS Friend Updates via Twitter.com
I did something I haven’t done in a while – opened up the toll-free line (1-888-PIRILLO) to enable you to record your thoughts on the latest Internet addiction, Twitter. According to the unofficial wiki: Twitter is a way of life. It’s living with a publicity policy. It’s friends, Romans and country people the world over [...]
Twitter: It’s pissing me off!
Okay, yeah – so I’m kinda getting twitterpissed. There are a few people in twitterland who I thought were real-life friends, and even though my twitterings are at a minimum, and even though I had already added them as friends, they aren’t reciprocating. WTF is up with that? http://twitter.com/chrispirillo isn’t that difficult to find. Not [...]
Is Free SMS Free?
Lockergnomie Rob Vonderhaar agrees with me on SMS, although I think we’re fighting a losing battle with it. I must admit, I found it rather handy when Google Maps SMS’ed my phone with a business address (and its phone number) to which I needed to navigate. Saw that you posted my feedback this morning about [...]
