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!

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