I finally broke down and signed up for an SMS plan. Since then, I’ve been texting myself key nuggets of information:
- Airline and hotel confirmation numbers
- Addresses and phone numbers of new restaurants I’m trying
- Shopping lists
The easiest way I’ve found to do this is AIM. You can add any U.S. cell phone number to your Buddy List. If your phone number is 7032655000, you just add “+17032655000″ to your Buddy List. Type out the message (or cut-and-paste) and it’ll be on your phone in seconds.
It beats printing out an entire page to get a few lines of text or trying to keep track of little scraps of paper.
Sites like Yahoo! Local let you send text messages directly from the Web page. Click the “Send to Phone” link on a restaurant details page and you get the vital statistics sent to your phone. The message includes a link to the mobile version of Y! Local with maps and user reviews.
If only my phone could send the address to my car’s navigation system.
[...] 7th, 2007 I said yesterday that it would be great if I could send destination information to my car from my PC via my phone. Apparently, Google has gone and done [...]
Pingback by Text to car: go to the grocery store « reDesign — March 7, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
A service similar to what you are looking for but here Google Maps sends the address to the navigation system on BMW. It seems this is only implemented in Germany and may well be implemented for other regions and may be other brands of cars as well.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/03/send-google-maps-addresses-to-your-car.html
Comment by KK — March 16, 2007 @ 1:19 am
[...] addition of AIM integration is that you can use AIM to send SMS messages from within Gmail. Just add the phone number as an AIM buddy. The AIM integration isn’t yet incorporated into Google’s downloadable client, Google [...]
Pingback by Google Chat and AIM, together at last + free SMS « reDesign — December 5, 2007 @ 10:21 am