Category Archives: e-mail

Send Text Messages Via Email

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Did you know you can use email to send text messages to patrons’ mobile phones? Use the patron’s ten-digit phone number with the domain name of their service provider’s SMS (Short Message Service) gateway. For example, 4021237890@vtext.com.
 
Alltel @message.alltel.com
AT&T @txt.att.net
Boost Mobile @myboostmobile.com 
Cingular @cingularme.com
Cox @sms.cox.net
Cricket @sms.mycricket.com
Nextel @messaging.nextel.com
Sprint @messaging.sprintpcs.com 
T-mobile @tmomail.net
Tracfone (use fonefinder website)
VoiceStream @voicestream.net
Verizon @vtext.com
Virgin Mobile @vmobl.com
U.S. Cellular @email.uscc.net
 
You can use http://www.fonefinder.net to get the service provider for the patron’s phone number.

Integrate drop.io into Outlook

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mainSeveral times I’ve talked about the need to end sending attachments via e-mail and the various alternatives including Windows Live Sky Drive, Dropbox, and drop.io along with various ways to integrate these services into your workflow. For you Outlook users, the new drop.io Outlook Plugin might be the solution for you. Once installed, instead of clicking on Outlook’s built-in attach item button, you click on the new “Attach Files with drop.io” button. Then just select your file (up to 100MB) and it will automatically be uploaded to drop.io and a link to the file will be inserted into your e-mail. It couldn’t get much simpler than that.

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Notify Mee

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Yep, Twitter’s down again. Oh, and so is Google. Want to know when they’re back up without re-checking yourself every few minutes? Just head on over to Notify Mee, enter the URL of the site and your e-mail address. When the site is back up, you’ll receive an e-mail. Patience, not included. You’re on your own there.

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feed your inbox with feedmyinbox

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imageI must admit that I don’t completely see the point of this service as I see feeds as a replacement for e-mail but.

Let’s say you’ve got that one person that has mastered e-mail but there’s no way you’re ever going to get them to use a feed aggregator. If you can get them set up with feedmyinbox you can have them benefit from feeds but have them delivered to their inbox as e-mail.

Just enter the URL of the feed then your e-mail address and click Submit. Within minutes you’ll receive a confirmation e-mail. Once you’ve confirmed your e-mail address, you’ll receive one e-mail per day containing all of the new posts from that feed.