Carputers News and Computer Tips

Aibek writes for the makeuseof.com blog:

Want to send a short email to a friend and get it delivered to his/her cell phone as SMS? If you know your friends’ phone numbers and the carrier they are on then you can easily send emails to their cell phones directly from your email program. 

Here’s how: Free Email To SMS Gateways (Major US Carriers)

If you know the phone number but not the carrier (cell service provider), here’s another method.  Gizmo allows sending up to 80 characters from their web page to any mobile phone for free.

Edit 11/28/2008:

Here are some other services that do this:

The techFAQ website has a page dedicated to computer-to-SMS messaging.

txtDrop.com offers computer-to-SMS via web and desktop. 

Edit 01/19/2009:

Txt2day will send free text messages to almost any major cell phone provider in the world.  It’s 100% free, with no gimmicks!

Google has dropped StarOffice from the Google Pack, with no explanation as to why.  This is a shame.

There are, however, other free alternatives to MS Office available.

For those of you out there that simply must have MS Office, have a look at Microsoft’s Ultimate Steal program – Office 2007 Ultimate for $60 if you have (or know someone who has) an email address that ends in .edu.

Back in June, 2007, we posted about Online Photography Tools and Resources.  The Mashable blog recently featured 20 Great Online Image Editors (some free, some subscription-based) that are worth a try.  The Daily Gyan blog also recently posted 10 Online Photo Editors That You Definitely Need to Bookmark.

Online image editing has some advantages.  No software installation is required, and, like other online applications, they are platform-independent.  These attributes make using borrowed or non-Windows computers a snap when editing photos or images.

Edit 02/25/2009:

CNET recently posted a feature comparison of a group of 15 online photo editors–big and small, to see what each one is capable of.  All but two are free.