Pierre, ad appears when I use Chrome on my Android phone. I will try it with Firefox.

Daly

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:

Daly de Gagne wrote:
> Chris, the ad in your post actually appears at the top of your post.

Strange, no ad seen here (other than the usual one on the left and at
the bottom of the window).
Daly, perhaps try a different browser, I suspect a browser "add-on",
perhaps silently installed when you installed a software

Pierre

kjxymzy wrote:

Since we have a wide array of people using a wide array of software
here, I wanted to ask if you use any of software in unorthodox/clever
ways (or have cute examples of others doing so)? Unique use cases,
exploitations of rarely used features etc etc

Using a browser to send SMS text messages, and also receive them. Good for events, parties, occasions etc. Or last minute blitzkrieg PR campaigns and other urgent announcements.

washere wrote:

Using a browser to send SMS text messages, and also receive them. Good
for events, parties, occasions etc. Or last minute blitzkrieg PR
campaigns and other urgent announcements.

May I ask how you do that?

Franz Grieser wrote:

washere wrote:

>Using a browser to send SMS text messages, and also receive them. Good
>for events, parties, occasions etc. Or last minute blitzkrieg PR
>campaigns and other urgent announcements.

May I ask how you do that?

You may Franz. There are various ways. One is the old way, websites that offer the service. I stopped using them several years ago in the whole except occasional use.

The second is software. I never used or looked into them.

The third strategy is to use browser extensions like Chrome MightyText or similar.

But I always advise friends to take a couple of easy precautions before using any of the above methods.

Franz Grieser wrote:

washere wrote:

>Using a browser to send SMS text messages, and also receive them. Good
>for events, parties, occasions etc. Or last minute blitzkrieg PR
>campaigns and other urgent announcements.

May I ask how you do that?

I suspect there are cheaper answers, but I use a service called "pulse" for this. https://messenger.klinkerapps.com/
It provides SMS on my phone account on all my devices (Windows, android tablet, android phone). It really is great to receive and respond to texts on my desktop using a real keyboard. I don't do bitzkrieg PR but I know it's useful for that as well. I just like that I don't have to type on that tiny keyboard.

AND on the original topic of the thread: you guys inspired me and I started using SMS to track time. It's working great. I have 2 SMS accounts (my regular phone account and my google voice account). I text myself a quick note when tracking something that is time-based, and voila, when I look at that conversation in Pulse or in Google Voice, I have a complete time-stamped log.

Thanks to washere and dan7000

dan7000 wrote:

Franz Grieser wrote:

>
>washere wrote:
>
>>Using a browser to send SMS text messages, and also receive them. Good
>>for events, parties, occasions etc. Or last minute blitzkrieg PR
>>campaigns and other urgent announcements.
>
>May I ask how you do that?

I suspect there are cheaper answers, but I use a service called "pulse"
for this. https://messenger.klinkerapps.com/
It provides SMS on my phone account on all my devices (Windows, android
tablet, android phone). It really is great to receive and respond to
texts on my desktop using a real keyboard. I don't do bitzkrieg PR but I
know it's useful for that as well. I just like that I don't have to type
on that tiny keyboard.

AND on the original topic of the thread: you guys inspired me and I
started using SMS to track time. It's working great. I have 2 SMS
accounts (my regular phone account and my google voice account). I text
myself a quick note when tracking something that is time-based, and
voila, when I look at that conversation in Pulse or in Google Voice, I
have a complete time-stamped log.

Yes that's a good idea, never thought of it. Like I said here as in emailing self a reminder and not opening it before time. One gets really itchy to just open it.

The other advantage of using a browser or whatever desktop software for lots of SMS in one go, apart from keyboard, is easy monitoring of lots of in/out traffic. Not easy for too many in a short time in a phone, as in events etc.

The precautions I take is to use a free or dollar SIM for the purpose, or a secondary voice account. Like we have secondary emails for registering, etc that might spam us. Although the top few websites & extensions are fairly good at not doing so or selling numbers on, I just don't risk it. I have a few spare free or dirt cheap SIMs always anyway.

The other precaution is to let people know it's a temporary SIM. So don't have to check it for replies in future.