OT: Texting Solution

[Ryan Rix]

Nathan England wrote:
> My sister and I text eachother quite a bit. Except I do not have a texting
> plan, so I email her phonenumber at vtext.com like all verizon phones work.
> When she sends me an email the message go to a specific imap folder for
> only her messages.
> 
> I would love to find a small app, such as kopete or pidgin, that would let
> me send messages to her as simply as clicking on a contact name, and have
> her messages show up the same as an instant message.
> 
> Anyone know of something like this for email? Or another solution that
> might work better, other than me getting a texting plan on my phone...?

Got a gtalk account? Add your sister as a contact on it, add her phone 
number to the contact and enable the GMail labs feature to send sms through 
gtalk. I think you can only do it via gmail UI, not xmpp or gtalk, but that 
is a solution. You will even get a dedicated phone number she can add to her 
phone book.

It's google, it's not perfect, but it works.

is your phone verizon?

Ryan

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