Unorthodox/clever software usage?

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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 15, 2018 at 02:16 AM

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
>

Posted by washere
Mar 21, 2018 at 02:57 PM

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.

Posted by Franz Grieser
Mar 21, 2018 at 03:49 PM

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?

Posted by washere
Mar 21, 2018 at 04:08 PM

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.

Posted by dan7000
Mar 21, 2018 at 04:11 PM

Franz Grieser wrote:

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.

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