When it comes to texting, there are basically two camps – those who love it and those who hate it. If you’re in the ‘hate it’ camp but have people that would genuinely appreciate a way to text you, simply use Yahoo! Mail or Yahoo! Messenger to get yourself a free text-able number. At that point people can text you direct to your computer...

We all know texting while driving is a huge no-no. You shouldn’t do it because you are a risk to other people when you aren’t paying attention to the road. However, driving isn’t the only time you should leave your phone in your pocket in order to be safe. Anytime you are in an unfamiliar place (especially at night) with few people around you,...

I have always wondered why cell carriers provide a ridiculous amount of voice minutes, yet charge additional fees for text messaging. From a technical standpoint, it seems the voice data stream would be much more intensive on their network as opposed to a 140 character text string. Regardless, if you are an iPhone user and want to be able to send texts without...

When you are having voice conversations (either face to face or a phone call), sarcasm can typically be detected by the people you are conversing with through inflections/emphasis in your voice.  For text only conversations, however, this typically does not translate well. While you can use punctuation such as ellipses and quotes to try to show your message is...

Do you find it more convenient to read email/texts as opposed to talking on the phone? If so then a service you may be interested in is PhoneTag. Here is how the process works:Someone calls and gets your voice mail. They hear your greeting followed by a voice which says something like “please speak clearly so your message can be converted to...

Ordinarily I am not for a national US-wide ban of anything, as I do believe that each individual state should make their own laws concerning how they handle things. But not on this issue. I’m going to say this flat out: If you text while you drive, you’re an idiot. It is one of the dumbest things you could possibly do behind the wheel of a car. If...

Some choose to text on a wireless phone for fiscal reasons. It used to be that texting cost more than speaking, but these days it’s the other way around (especially with prepaid wireless phones). Some choose to text because it’s faster. If you receive a text message asking, “Meet up for coffee at noon at D.D.?”, it is quicker to reply...