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17-12-2007, 10:37 PM
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Location: Perth
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Free/V.Cheap SMS from PC/iPod Touch?
Guys, I hooked up with a new girl (  ) and the amount of SMS's I'm sending each day is making me seriously question my sanity. Is there some service that'll let me send cheap - or free - SMS messages from my mac or ipod?
I used to use Callwave's widget, but it doesn't seem to work for australian numbers anymore.
Cheers,
J
PS Threadless.com is having a sale, with guy's tees from ten bucks..
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17-12-2007, 10:40 PM
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The Fail Whale
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get yourself and her on twitter..
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17-12-2007, 10:44 PM
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Location: Perth
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Twitter eh?
The site is down for maintenance, what's it about?
She doesn't really use 'the internet' so does it rely on that?
J
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17-12-2007, 10:49 PM
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The Fail Whale
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its just a weird chat client, but it can work over the web, via im, or sms.
you could both sign up, then set each others account to get sms for direct messages, then, whenever you want to sms her, just direct message her from your pc/ipod...
250 free sms a month.
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17-12-2007, 11:26 PM
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Location: Perth
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fulltimecasual
its just a weird chat client, but it can work over the web, via im, or sms.
you could both sign up, then set each others account to get sms for direct messages, then, whenever you want to sms her, just direct message her from your pc/ipod...
250 free sms a month.
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Whoa, holy shit... cool 
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17-12-2007, 11:29 PM
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The Fail Whale
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Originally Posted by jubilantjeremy
Whoa, holy shit... cool |
and thats only counted as received sms's per person. so technically you could both send 250 to each other.
but then you'll get addicted like me, follow a bunch of hilarious kids, and before you know it you can blow your 250 sms in a day.. i need help. dammit, when is twitter back up!!!
Last edited by fulltimecasual; 17-12-2007 at 11:32 PM.
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17-12-2007, 11:33 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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can you send the text messages to people that aren't on the service?
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18-12-2007, 12:17 AM
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Location: Streaky Bay, South Australia
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nope.
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18-12-2007, 02:31 AM
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Location: Perth
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Yuh. It says 'Standard Rates Apply'...?
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18-12-2007, 07:43 AM
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King of the Carrot Flowers
Group: Regulars
Location: Gippsland, Victoria
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Why not utilise an IM client like Yahoo or MSN?
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18-12-2007, 08:39 AM
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The Fail Whale
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jubilantjeremy
Yuh. It says 'Standard Rates Apply'...?
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to send a sms from your phone... from the web its free.. |
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18-12-2007, 01:09 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Perth
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Are you sure?
When asking for my mobile number, it has a checkbox with the text :
[v] Its okay for Twitter to send txt messages to my phone. Std. rates apply.
I know they changed a lot of stuff around last night, maybe this has also changed?
J
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18-12-2007, 02:30 PM
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The Fail Whale
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in the us you pay to receive sms, which is why they're asking you then. in oz, we only pay to send, and thats all you'll pay here.
thats why australians recently got hit with the 250 limit. i guess we were going overboard..  |
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18-12-2007, 02:38 PM
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Location: Perth
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fulltimecasual
in the us you pay to receive sms, which is why they're asking you then. in oz, we only pay to send, and thats all you'll pay here.
thats why australians recently got hit with the 250 limit. i guess we were going overboard.. |
Wow - never knew that one
Thanks FTC for sorting me out. I've signed up, their website is still a bit down - lots of database connect errors.
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18-12-2007, 02:43 PM
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Addicted to anything made by Apple
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Why don't you each get a virgin prepaid and use that to use the free sms feature?
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