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Posted by Franz Grieser
Mar 21, 2018 at 04:13 PM
Thanks to washere and dan7000
Posted by washere
Mar 21, 2018 at 04:26 PM
dan7000 wrote:
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>Franz Grieser wrote:
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>>washere wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>May I ask how you do that?
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>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.
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>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.