How Do I Send a Text Message to a Cell Phone Without Having a Cell Phone?

Using a Texting Website
1. Go to a text-messaging website such as Onlinetextmessage.com, Txt2day.com or Textforfree.net.
2. Enter the mobile number of the intended recipient of your text message, the wireless carrier for that cellphone, your email address, the message you want to send and any other information requested by the website. Click 'Send' or the equivalent button.
3. Review any special offers or other information displayed on the page that appears after the text message has been sent. The website might ask you to try a subscription to its services. You don't have to sign up if the website offers free texting. Your message should have already gone through if you clicked 'Send' in the preceding step.
Using Skype
4. Install Skype on your computer if you do not have it. Go to Skype.com, roll your cursor over the 'Get Skype' tab, select your operating system and click 'Download Skype.' Follow the installation instructions.
5. Add contacts you would like to text message. When you first open Skype, the program will ask if you want to add contacts from your email addresses or social networking service, so you can do that if you wish. You can also search for contacts on Skype or create new ones. Make sure that the contacts you would like to text have cellphone numbers in their profiles. To do this, click on the contact, select the 'Mobile' tab, click 'Add a phone number' and enter the 10-digit number.
6. Add credit to your Skype account. Skype will deduct a few cents from your balance every time you send a text. You can 'Buy Skype Credit now' on your Skype home screen; simply have a contact highlighted and click on the 'Mobile' tab. The link will be at the bottom of the screen. You can also add credit to your account by clicking 'Add credit.' Follow the prompts and enter the appropriate information to add credit.
7. Write a text by highlighting a contact on your Skype home screen, selecting the 'Mobile' tab and writing your message in the box at the bottom of the screen. Click on the bubble to the right of the text box to send your message.

How to Get Free Phone Service

1. Many voip providers allow free computer to computer calls. We are going to link such a service to a free phone number so that we aren't limited to only pc to pc calls, but have a real phone number to receive calls for free. To do this, we must first sign up with a free basic voip provider. Here are a few:
Voxalot
Gizmo
Free World Dialup (no longer free as of 08/08)
2. Next, we must get our free phone number and route it to our voip service. Here are two examples of providers who offer this service, sign up for one of them:
ipkall.com
freedigits.com
During sign up, you will need to provide a sip number and sip proxy.
To route the phone number to our voip service, use your member id that you received in step 1, as your sip number. The sip proxy is provided also provided to you during step 1, enter it in the sip proxy field.
Here are the sip proxies for some common voip providers:
Voxalot - us.voxalot.com
FWD - fwd.pulver.com
Gizmo - proxy01.sipphone.com
3. Now that we have a free phone number and a free voip service, we have to configure our softphone or analog telephone adapter to register with our voip provider. A softphone is software that allows us to make calls on our pc, X-lite is one example and it is free. An analog telephone adapter is a hardware version of the same thing.
Go to the configuration menu of your softphone or ata and enter the same sip proxy you used in step 2, in your softphone sip proxy field. Enter your user name and password. For additional help configuring your sip device, see the resources section below.
4. After step 3 your softphone or ata will be registered with your voip provider, which is in turn registered with your free phone number. When someone calls you it is routed like this:
Ipkall -> forwards the call to your free voip provider -> sends the call to the device (softphone or ata) configured to receive it.
You can now receive totally free phone calls!

How to Get a Free iPhone

1. Sign up for free product offers. There are several websites that offer the option of signing up to receive free products. Although there are often a few more steps to actually getting your free iPhone, signing up is the first step towards receiving your free iPhone.
2. Learn how free operations work. Often you are able to get a free iPhone by referring people to certain websites. By offering referrals, advertisers pay money which in turn gets you your free phone. Learn what you will need to do in order to get your free iPhone.
3. Enter a contest. Besides online websites that offer you a free phone when you sign up with their services, there are also websites that are running contesting for a free phone. Test your luck by entering these contests if you don’t want to sign up through another site.
4. Trade in your old phone. Depending on the condition and model of your current phone, you may be able to trade it in for a new, free phone. You may have to sign a new contract, but you could get a free iPhone out of the deal.
5. Check for offers from the Apple store. Depending on the promotion at the time, it is possible to get a free iPhone from the Apple store. By purchasing another product, Apple may give you a free iPhone so be on the lookout for these type of deals.

How to Sign up on Chikka

1. Visit the chikka.com home page and fill in the fields in the 'Sign up for free!' section. These include country, mobile phone and email. The mobile phone entry is not mandatory and this field can be bypassed by selecting the 'No Mobile Phone' box.
2. Check the email inbox of the account used in the first step for a verification email from Chikka. Open the email and click on the link to verify the email address.
3. Check the email inbox again after completing the email verification for a new email from Chikka containing the new Chikka ID and password.The account setup is now complete and available for sending free SMS messages.

Where to Find a Completely Free Person Search

WhitePages.com
WhitePages.com is one of the largest online databases, allowing you to search for any person or business. Simply type in the person's last name, along with optional first name, city, and/or state the person might be living in. Results will typically show the name, address and phone number of the person you're searching for. WhitePages.com also offers an 'advanced search' option allowing you to type in just the first few letters of the person's last name and/or first name. This is especially convenient when you are unsure how to spell the person's name who you are trying to find. You can also use WhitePages.com to search for a business or even do a reverse search, which allows you to type in a phone number or street address and find out the name of the person associated with that phone number or address.
Addresses.com
Addresses.com allows you to search for a person's address, phone number and email address. On the main page, there are options for all of the above options. Simply type in the person's name, and matching results will be displayed. Reverse phone searches and business searches are also available through Addresses.com.
Yahoo People Search
Yahoo People Search also allows you to search for people for free. Visit their website, people.yahoo.com, and type in the person's name using the phone and address search option or the email search option. Reverse phone number searches are also available at no charge.
SuperPages.com
SuperPages.com is another free online service, allowing you to search for contact information on people and businesses. Simply click on the 'people' tab on the SuperPages homepage, and type in the person's last name and optional first name. Results will display the closest matches.
Search Engines
Although the above websites search their own databases for matches to your search criteria, search engines such as Google scour the entire Internet, looking for websites that contain the search criteria that you provide. This is another free service and very helpful when the above options do not turn up the information you are looking for.

How to Track SMS Messages

1. Use your phone's arrow keys to highlight the 'Messages' category. Select it by pressing the 'OK' button.
2. Use the phone's arrow keys to highlight your 'Outbox.' Select it by pressing the 'OK' button.
3. Highlight the SMS message you want to track from the list of messages you've sent. Press the phone's 'OK' button to display the contents of the message.
4. Press the 'Option' button on your phone to bring up a list of options dealing with that particular SMS message. Use the arrow keys to highlight and select the option that reads 'Message Info.' This will bring up a number of pieces of information about the message, including what time it was sent and what time it was received by the recipient, if it got there at all.

How to Activate a Prepaid Boost Phone

1. Visit the official Boost Mobile activations page. The link is in the Resources section of this page.
2. Examine the different plans offered. Currently, Boost Mobile offers their monthly unlimited plan, which includes unlimited calling and text messaging and free walkie-talkie use. They also offer a daily chat and text option for unlimited nights and weekends and mobile-to-mobile, plus unlimited text messaging. Finally, Boost Mobile offers a pay-as-you-go option, which offers traditional prepaid options.
3. Click on the 'Create a New Number' option if you are not porting your old number over to the service, or click the 'Transfer Your Number' option to bring your old number over to the Boost Mobile service.
4. Fill in the three field as the top of the page. The activation number will be found on the back of your Boost Mobile prepaid phone card. The SIM card number will be located on the back on your SIM card's plastic holder, and your IMEI number is located under your phone's battery.
5. Create your account PIN and then choose your security question, which is used in case you forget your password. Click the 'Continue' key and continue filling out the personal information requested until you reach the final page. Your device will now activate in five to 10 minutes.
6. Call Customer service at 1-888-BOOST-4U (1-888-266-7848) if you would prefer to activate your device over the phone with a real person. You will still need your activation, SIM and IMEI numbers when you call customer service.