How to Send Free Text Messages From Your Computer

Posted May 01, 2009 by MissDemeanor / comments 2 comments / Print / Font Size Decrease font size Increase font size

Now you can send text messages from your computer to someone's cell phone, for free! If you're like me and have a cell phone without texting capabilities, you are no longer limited in how you can contact your friends and family. Google has once again made life easier.

You don't need a cell phone or a fancy iphone to send text messages to your friends and family. You can harness the power of Google so you can send them right from your very own computer desktop! How's that for cool technology?!

This is great for parents who may not be keen on texting but still want to get a message through to their kids' cell phones. It's also handy for those same kids to send text messages even when they are grounded from using their cell phones. Oops! Did I just suggest that? *tsk-tsk* Scratch that, kids... don't get me in trouble, okay? *wink*

This free texting option using only your computer is currently only available for US residents.

  1. Log on to Google.com and log in if you have an account. Register if you haven't already. It's free and quite straightforward.
  2. Click on the "Add Stuff" link on your upper right.
  3. There will be a search bar that says "Search Gadgets". Type in ... Free Text Message ... and click search.
  4. Simply click the add button. This will place the free texting tool on your google homepage so you can easily use it anytime you like.
  5. Go back to the iGoogle homepage. It will now be on your page.
  6. Fill in the blanks to send your text message. Presto!

Be sure to browse all the other applications available to you here on google. You will want to have an hour or so to spend because there is a lot of fun stuff at your fingertips here.

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Angelgirlpj
Angelgirlpj said... on September 15th, 2009 at 11:50 AM
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My prepaid cell phone has this function too. I can email my husband when away from home and it goes to my computer and then he can reply to me via computer and I get a text message.



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