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Enjoy Texting From Your Computer Using DeskSMS For iPhone [Cydia App]

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The world is moving on from the PC to the more portable and mobile tablets and smartphones. The convenience and amazing usability these device provide are enough to hook any user to them. But a good, old-fashioned desktop still hasn’t lost the race completely. Most of the office work is still done on PCs and there are countless people out there who spend their day sitting in front of a computer, with their iPhone lying next to the monitor screen. You can surf the net from the PC, check your mails too, but what you can’t do is send an SMS. Now you don’t have to pick up your mobile for that, nor check for incoming messages regularly. Meet DeskSMS, a Cydia App for jailbroken users which will bring texting right on your desktop screen. Read More

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango To Support Windows Live Messenger Emoticons

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As we have boasted about the 500 magical new features coming to Mango on a number of occasions, you must be pretty familiar with the ongoing discovery of these features almost on daily basis. This time, however, we are talking about the lighter side of things. All of us text, and most of us put smileys at the end of our sentences (occasionally, at least). Windows Phone 7 keyboard even has a dedicated emoticon button on it, which just shows that Microsoft takes expressing your feelings quite seriously. With Mango, they have gone one step further, graphic emoticons are now supported on Mango! Read More

Android Pro Widgets Suite For Facebook, Twitter, SMS, Contacts & More

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Apart from the customary modding, hacking and mass customization of the overall layout of the entire firmware, one thing that parts Android from the rest of the competition is the ability to make the home screen more productive by installing widgets pertaining to a certain app. These widgets come in all shapes, sizes, colors and functionality. Android Pro Widgets is a comprehensive set of customizable, skinnable widgets for your contacts, calendar, bookmarks, messaging, Facebook and Twitter etc. Each widget supports ample customization options and packs multiple features that allow you to easily access/manage your tasks, bookmarks, contacts and social media buddies . Moreover, auto-update interval can be set for each widget and updates can be delayed while your phone is in sleep mode. Read More

How To Cut The Cost Of Group Messaging In Windows Phone Mango

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In recent times, SMS, or texting as it is commonly referred to, has become the primary mode of communication between all mobile users. A major factor that has led to this development is the cheap cost that is usually associated with text messages. Imagine the state of your monthly cellphone budget if you had to call someone every time you had something to say. But if you are a Windows Phone 7 user and have already updated to Mango (using our Mango update guide), or are soon going to (the official release isn’t all that far away), then your wallet can take a hit! How is that possible? Well, apparently, the fruity update of Windows Phone has the tendency to confuse a simple text message with an MMS, specially if you choose more than one recipients. Alarmed? Don't be, as thankfully there is an easy way to overcome this issue and bring everything back to normal. Read More

Zlango Messaging – Texting Done Through Emoticons! [Android]

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There are certain messages, feelings and gestures that cannot be described in words. Also, not all messages need to be sent in just plain text. If you are looking for an innovative way to convey your emotions and attitude to your friends then you should definitely try out Zlango Messaging for Android. With Zlango Messaging, you can free yourself from expressing your feelings through long text messages. No, we are not talking about sending multimedia messages nor are we discussing sending mails with attachments! Instead, you can send pictorial messages with visually exciting icons and smileys as a fun replacement for your text messages. Just type in a word and Zlango Messaging will convert it into a relevant icon. The app supports more than 800 different icons that can depict your exact mood while various icon themes and visually apt skins take your messaging experience to new heights. Read More

DeskSMS For Android – Send & Receive SMS To / From Gmail & Google Talk

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Koush, best known for developing the famous Clockworkmod Recovery for Android, has decided to try his hand at the remote messaging app genre. The developer has conceived an app that pushes all your incoming SMS to your Google account (Gmail and/or Google Talk). DeskSMS is a handy little app that allows you to receive and reply to your text messages from your mail client. With DeskSMS, you can receive your text messages as an email or in the form of chat messages in Google Talk. The replies however are sent as text messages only and not as an email. The app comes with a home screen widget that can be used to toggle sending/receiving messages on Gmail, Google Talk or both. More after the break. Read More

How To Troubleshoot Facebook Texting In Mango

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Microsoft promised that Windows Phone 7’s latest version Mango will come up with about 500 new features. Well, we don't know about that yet, as the version is still only in its beta testing phase. But what we can confirm is that Mango does have a bunch of really cool and helpful new features that weren’t there in any previous version of WP7. Seeing the emergence and continuous rise of social networking, an organization as adaptable as Microsoft is bound to go with the flow. That’s why Facebook chat is now integrated with the stock messaging app for Mango. This means that you can now interact with your Facebook friends just like you were texting them. But not all is going according to the plan, and there are a few glitches with these feature. A lot of users have complained that there device's screen just keeps showing them as signing in and no online contacts actually show up in the Facebook tab of the Messaging hub. Many people have also faced problems just trying to link their Facebook account with their Live ID if their Facebook login email address is of some other service. If you are experiencing some of these issues, here are the solutions to all your Facebook-related problems. Read More

GO SMS Widget Displays Your Text Messages On Your Android Home Screen

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If, for some reason, the stylish and feature-packed GO SMS Pro for Android was not enough to fulfill the messaging needs of users, Go Dev Team have decided to show up with a sleek widget to compliment the app. With GO SMS Widget, you do not need to peep into your inbox anymore. Instead, you can always resort to this smart little widget for all your messaging needs. The widget shows all your messages, with added controls that allow you to perform message-related tasks right from your home screen. More after the break. Read More

Kick Out Texting With Kik Messenger for Windows Phone 7

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Although, Windows Phone 7 offers many messenger apps but none of them come even close to perfection. A few are infested with bugs whereas some have made users complain of slow speed and irresponsive interface. All in all, if you are a “chat” person, and like to stay in touch with your friends and loved ones via different messengers, then you must admit that it would be nice to have an app where you can interact with people who are on the same platform as you. A bit of extra speed would be welcome as well. Combining exactly these features, Kik for WP7 is now available on the Zune Marketplace. Read More

SMS Corrector – Automatically Correct Incoming Text Messages [Android]

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Annoyed of receiving ridiculously puzzling and poorly spelled SMS messages? May be you need a doze of SMS Corrector – an Android app developed by an XDA member that corrects poorly articulated incoming text messages and (even) translates them to a language of your choice. The app is unique and amazing in the way it seamlessly converts abbreviated and/or misspelled words in each received message. This helps the recipients to understand the purpose of the message in a much better way as all the ‘junk’ portion of the text message gets replaced by the corrected version. Read More

Access SMS On Windows Phone 7 File System

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Windows Phone 7 is known for its closed and restricted structure, making even the simplest of file access procedure rather difficult. Texting is the way to talk for most of the mobile users today but unfortunately there is a lack of sufficient number of apps relating to SMS on WP7. The primary reason for that can be the unavailability of a convenient way to access the file where the OS saves the text messages and their relevant information. That situation, however, has now been rectified. Using the simple procedure described ahead you can access your SMS on the file system of WP7. Read More

Send SMS Text Messages From Android Tablets With TexTab

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Be it Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Asus’s Eee Pad Transformer or any other Android tablet, the concept behind such devices is to create a hybrid of laptops and mobile phones. That means tablets have the energy consumption and portability of a smartphone coupled with the superior processing power and better display of a laptop. But sadly, this fact also implies that  some of the features might be lost in this hybrid that are taken for granted in the dedicated devices. One such huge utility missing from tablets is the presence of SMS. Don’t you sometimes just get so lost in your tablet that you wish that it could act as your mobile phone too and you won’t have to part with it for even a single moment? If that’s the case then here’s the solution for your worries, in the form of the newly released app TexTab! Read More

GO Launcher EX For Android Gets Its Own SMS Widget

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And they’re back. Its been only a few weeks since the GO dev team began releasing widgets for their acclaimed home replacement app, GO Launcher EX. The developers have just released yet another good-looking GO Widget to the Android Market, bringing the total count up to three, the other two being the previously reviewed Contacts and Task Manager widgets. Message GOWidget for GO Launcher EX is a smart and efficient SMS widget. The widget, like every thing else from the dev team, is absolutely free and can be downloaded directly from the Market or from within the launcher itself. Read More

Texty For Android Lets You Sync, Send & Receive SMS On Your Computer

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While you’re busy working on your computer, attending to a barrage of incoming SMS can prove to be quite a hassle. Texty for Android, in combination with its extension for Google Chrome, turns your computer into an SMS gateway that makes sending and replying to text messages quick and painless. The app syncs your contacts, incoming and outgoing SMS over the web with its Chrome extension, allowing you to send and receive SMS from within Google Chrome. As of this writing, the app is available as a private beta on the Android Market and the extension is available for download on  You can download both the extension and Android app but to have access to them, you’ll have to apply for a beta invite. Read More

Enable CRT Animation, SMS And Get Desktop Versions Of Websites On Motorola Xoom

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Motorola Xoom, Google’s flagship Honeycomb tablet has just received a mod courtesy of XDA-Developers forum member, sangreal06 that has suddenly taken the device to a new level of awesomeness. Your Xoom can now let you view the desktop version of websites, without needing to redo the “about:debug” trick over and over again. That’s not it, we have SMS and the Gingerbread CRT lock animation as well. For more on this mod and how to get it on your Xoom, read on! Read More

SMS Diversion For Android Forwards Incoming SMS To Your Gmail Account

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New to the Android Market, SMS Diversion for Android is a free app that, when allowed, forwards incoming SMS, complete with the name and number of the sender, to a user-specified Gmail account. SMS Diversion finds its application in instances where, say, you forget your phone at home while setting off for work or are too busy going through your daily email to attend to your phone. Moreover, the app works like a charm in conjunction with the Google Talk client, allowing you to preview incoming SMS via Gmail notifications while working on your computer, without having to touch your phone. Read More

teXty For Android Provides A Two-Tap Shortcut To Frequently Sent SMS

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teXty for Android is a free app that saves you the hassle of having to type and send the same SMS to the same contacts over and over again. The freeware includes a home screen widget that, when tapped, displays a list of user-defined SMS shortcuts complete with custom headings, numbers and message bodies. The SMS entries/shortcuts are saved in the app itself and are not deleted on removal of the widget from the home screen. Read More

Easy Filter For Android Makes Blocking Unwanted Calls And SMS Simpler

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Easy Filter is a free app for Android that provides an easy yet efficient way to block incoming phone calls and SMS. The freeware allows you to choose from multiple blocking scenarios, selectively block/filter SMS or calls from numbers added to the blacklist (Block List) and view the history of filtered calls and messages while keeping the said blacklist and filter records secure behind password protection. Read More

Customize Notifications For Calls, SMS, Gmail, Gtalk & More On Android

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WhoIsIt Lite is a free, comprehensive tool for contact and application-specific ringtone and notification management. The freeware allows users to assign separate ringtones and vibration patterns to incoming calls, SMS, MMS, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Voice and K-9 notifications collectively or for each contact. In addition, users can set the application to announce a notification with a default or user-defined (custom) announcement, complete with the name of the sender – a feature that you are bound to have fun with. And that’s not all! The application can backup and restore contact settings to and from your SD card when required. The paid version of the app has been around for a while. It's about time a free version hit the shelves. Read More

Translate And Listen To Incoming Text Message (SMS) On Android

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So you've heard about and come across apps that read out the texts you receive on your phone. We thought that was awesome; well not quite! Enter SMS Speaker Translating, a free app that not only reads your texts for you, but reads them after translating them to a language of your choice. However, in order for the translation to work, Wi-Fi or a data connection is required. The time it takes for the app to translate is just a few seconds and the output is crisp and very clear. Read More