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Nov 30, 2008View Comments

Send Email to SMS to Any of Your Friends

Want to send urgent emails to your friends but don’t know when they’ll get your message? Then, send your email as a SMS to any of your friend’s cellphone – for free.

Of course, you can already send free text messages with online services such as http://www.sendsmsnow.com/ but you can do it now in the comfort of your own email account.

Here’s how:

Your mobile has an unique email address created by your wireless carrier. All you have to do is ask your friends to send emails to this email address and it’ll be sent to your cellphone – free of charge. The only caveat is that you’re limited to 160 characters. However, you can reply to the SMS to have the entire email sent to you.

Here’s a list of all Canadian carriers and their email format so you can find your own:

President’s Choice - your10digitnumber@txt.bell.ca

Rogers - your10digitnumber@pcs.rogers.com

Sasktel - your10digitnumber@sms.sasktel.com

Telus Mobility - your10digitnumber@msg.telus.com

Virgin Mobile - your10digitnumber@vmobile.ca

Thanks to Rajesh Kumar for the tip.

Peter Kao

Nov 27, 2008View Comments

More Proof that my Generation has ADD

If you’re around my age (21 years old) or younger, than you’ll more or less enjoy this Flash game called PongOut. The game has two screens: one for Pong and the other for Breakout. The objective of the game is to play both games – at the same time.

Back in the 70′s, Pong was a fairly fun game even though it seems as a ridiculously slow-paced game now. With so much stimulus around us we just can’t use enough of our brains.

PongOut makes an excellent comparison of how attention-deficit the younger generations are compared to the older generations. And what makes this game fun is that it challenges players to focus on two relatively complicated things at once, each of which has it’s own gameplay.

Now, if only there was a third screen…

Peter Kao

Nov 27, 2008View Comments