Mobile

Free SMS From CallWave

by J. Angelo Racoma
written by J. Angelo Racoma

There are a handful of free SMS services out there, but CallWave is my favorite. You can either install it as an OS X Dashboard widget, a Yahoo Widget Engine (Konfabulator) widget, or even as a Google Gadget on your Google Homepage (instructions here). If you use Windows Vista, you can install it as a standalone Vista gadget.

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Yes, it works on Philippine networks. You can also send text to most other countries. And unlike most free PC to SMS providers I know, CallWave is pretty quick–messages are received in just a few seconds.

The Google Gadget version is pretty sparse and you have to regsiter your mobile number to use it. The OS X Widget has more features, as it can access numbers from your Mac phonebook for easy reference. I haven’t tried the other versions, though. But I’m pretty sure they’re all straightforward and easy to use.

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J. Angelo Racoma is an economist by profession and IT executive by occupation. He served the Philippine government for three years before moving on to join a leading firm in the local ICT industry. Having a passion for writing since his more youthful days, Angelo has been active in the online community since the time he operated his own Bulletin Board System (the Cyber County BBS) in the mid-1990’s, to actively participating in online tech forums, and now authoring his own blog, the J Spot, which he started late 2003. This personal publisher regularly and frequently posts commentaries on information technology, business, economics, politics and government, public relations, and family matters. A present personal advocacy is to increase local awareness and accessibility to alternative/I.P.-based means of content distribution. Angelo is married to educator Caren Marie Guevara, with whom he has two daughters, Sofia Bernice and Agatha Clarisse.