How to Send SMS Online With Google

1. Log in to your Gmail account, and click 'Settings,' which is in the top right corner of the page.
2. Select 'Labs,' and scroll down to 'Text Messages (SMS) in Chat.' On the right, change the setting to 'Enable' from 'Disable,' and click 'Save changes.'
3. Go to Google Chat, and type in a cell phone number where you see 'Search, add, or invite.' Click the strip that appears to the right and says 'Send SMS.'
4. Type in the name of your contact, and click 'Save.'
5. A chat box will appear. Any messages you type will be delivered to the cell phone.

How to Track Down Your SafeLink Wireless Minutes

1. Power on the SafeLink cellular phone and select 'Prepaid' from the main menu.
2. Scroll down to and select 'Airtime Info' from the Prepaid menu.
3. Look for the remaining balance next to 'Airtime Balance.'

How to Send SMS Automatically

1. Download a free copy of CycloneSender to sent out text messages automatically from your Windows Mobile device---the app can be installed directly to your PDA (see Resources). CycloneSender has no glitz but its plain interface allows you to get right down to automating your text messages. After installing the program, just fill out the time, message and recipient fields to set up your SMS text messages. Click 'Add' to schedule them.
2. Download the free version of Textalert via iTunes to schedule text messages to be sent from your iPhone automatically (see Resources). The free version of Textalert lets you send out five free messages a day, but you can send each message to a maximum of 10 contacts at once. Messages can be sent over 3G, Edge or WiFi. Just select the 'New Alert' option to begin.
3. Automate your SMS text messages online with a free TxtAnytime account (see Resources). With a free TxtAnytime account, you can create an addressbook and save messages. You can even enter an email address into the utility to manage replies from your SMS recipients. After signing up for an account, just select the 'Schedule a Message' option to access the time fields on TxtAnytime's SMS utility.

Tips by SMS on Mobile on BSE

Stock 4 Gains
Stock 4 Gains is a professional consultancy service firm that has been providing tips on the BSE to clients for over five years. They give their clients with daily NSE-BSE stock-trading tips and share trading tips via SMS messaging on mobile devices. They also provide access to an online members-only site that has a slew of online-only BSE tips and a portfolio management service. Subscribers are required to pay a fee, after which they send their name, mobile number and transaction details to '08141071717' to begin receiving BSE tips via SMS.
Sirf Paisa
Sirf Paisa is an Indian share market analyst firm that uses market analysis to provide its clients with the most up-to-date share market tips and news stories. The firm offers share tips via SMS delivery and also offers intraday cash market analysis and future stock analysis through their website. Users can register for the SMS tips by filling out the registration form on the Sirf Paisa website (including name, email address and mobile number), selecting the services they wish to receive and paying the monthly fee.
Invest Geeta
Invest Geeta is an Indian share market advice firm that offers several different types of market tips via SMS. Subscribers gain access to daily tips that cover intraday stock trading, future stocks and options, and 'buy today, sell tomorrow' stocks. Users can sign up for a one-week free trial of the Invest Geeta stock tips by texting 'IG' to '56767500.' After the trial period is over, users can continue to receive the tips by subscribing to the paid service on the company's website.
BSE NSE Tips
NSE BSE Tips provides signed-up users with stock-buying and selling tips, India stock market news and company news. Users can subscribe to receive these tips via SMS on their mobile devices by texting 'ON BSENSETIPS' to ''9870807070.' This service is offered to users free of charge.

How to Make Free Local Phone Calls Over the Internet

Evaphone
1. Navigate to the Evaphone 'Available Destinations' page and scroll down to your country and city to see the time limit on free calls.
2. Click 'Main Page' and select the country you are in from the drop-down menu.
3. Type the local phone number using the screen keypad and click the 'call' button.
iCall
4. Navigate to the iCall homepage and click 'For the Desktop.' This software requires broadband Internet and a headset. Click 'Download iCall Now.'
5. Click 'Save file' in the new window, then click the iCall file in the downloads window. Plug your headset into your computer.
6. Open iCall. Click the 'Keypad' button and enter the local number you wish to call, then click 'Place Call.'

How to Send Free Text Messages in the United Kingdom

1. Open your web browser and navigate to the website CBFSMS.com. CBF SMS is a free text messaging service for U.K. users, and allows free messages to be sent to any U.K. cell phone.
2. Scroll down the homepage until you see the message fields.
3. Enter the cell phone number you want to message in the 'Number' field.
4. Enter your text message in the 'Message' field.
5. Click the 'Send SMS' button when finished.
6. Check the replies check box on the next page if you want to receive replies. Click the 'Send' button after confirming that the number and message is correct.

How to Send a Text Message Overseas

1. Check your cell phone plan. Some phone companies support overseas texting, and others don't. A few companies even include it in your standard texting plan so it won't cost you extra. Other companies will charge you more to send your message than to receive one. Even if your phone comes with unlimited texting, the plan may not apply to overseas texting.
2. Find the code for the country you want to call. You'll need to add this country code to the phone number. This will make the phone number 12 to 14 digits long. You can look this code up online; it's the same prefix that you use to call overseas.
3. Send the message through your phone's e-mail function if you can't send an overseas text message. You'll both need to have Internet access. You can say the same thing you wanted to say in your text message, and it might be free, depending on your plan.
4. Write and send the text message just as you would for local calls. Do this by selecting the contact you want to send the message to and choosing the message option. Type your text message, then hit 'Send.'
5. Use an online messenger. Free messengers such as Yahoo or MSN's WebMessenger can send text messages overseas. Log in to the messenger, and add the phone number to your mobile contacts. The receiver will have to pay standard cell phone texting rates. You'll be able to type your messages with a computer keyboard, which is useful if you have trouble texting on the phone.