I love text messaging, but that’s because I use a BlackBerry with an actual keyboard - I know there are people who can tap-tap-tap their messages on a numeric dial pad, but it ain’t me, babe. But when I am the office or my laptop somewhere, I often wish I could just text a message right from my e-mail, and not have to fish out my BlackBerry and do it from there. Before you firestorm me with e-mail, yes, I know that there have always been ways to do this, but the process was cumbersome or required special software.

Today I found a site called Teleflip that lets you use Outlook or whetever e-mail client you prefer to SMS anyone in the USA. Yes, that’s the catch: it’s US-based only for now, but it’s FREE and it works.

[Read more about Teleflip Sends Free SMS Text Messages Via Email to Any US-Based Phone Number at RealTechNews]

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