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I had a really busy day yesterday, which was nice, quite a few calls that I always endeavour to pickup rather than send to my Voicemail.
What I normally do is ask a customer for their mobile number, then I text them my details and they can then arrange a day/time to pop round to the Workshop.

Does anyone have a facility to text via your PC so that it appears to be coming from your mobile phone ? I waste alot of time tapping on my Blackberry keyboard :head: I know there are applications that do his but was hoping to hear fro someone that is actually doing this at the moment?
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Skype and Smartvoip will let you send sms messages from your computer and have the sender appear to be your mobile phone number. I'm sure there are others.
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If you google free sms from internet there are loads of them, however these sites must be getting something out of it so perhaps read the small print or find a review. :D
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Of course there are paid services this one http://www.textlocal.com/ seems to get good reviews and cost about 5p a message. :D
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Can't comment on the rest but I use Skype - It's a handy little address/contact list too. And I like it because it gives me a log of all the contact I've made with people.
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Just tried that with Skype, and got the message 'not enough Skype credit' so Skype's obviously not free......
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"Start using Skype" has been on my TO DO list for a year or so now, will definitely look into this.
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On my HTC Mobil, I have a number of templates set up, just need to fill in the details and send
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Sorry, yes - Skype isn't free when using the SMS service, think it's around 5p per standard txt.
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I found a bit of software to allow you to see / use your Blackberry on your PC, I have it on trial, price $40, I think I might get it, it save my thumbs and eyes squinting at my Blackberry, Google Impatica viaDock software .
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Love the screen only a picture framer could have a screen like that :giggle: :giggle:
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