How to send a FREE sms to any national/international number without the help of third party websites

source: asginformationtechnologies.com

source : theweek.com

How cool will it be, if you could send an email to a phone number?
Just imagine, you want to send an important information to your parents / friends. What you do ? Whatsapp? FB ? SMS ? Call ?
If the recipient doesn't have immediate access to internet, the only option is to SMS or call. And if they are not picking the call, then the only option left is to send an SMS; which will cost you. But, there is another better way, you can email this info to their mobile number.

We can send a mail to any phone and its FREE for many phone numbers (based on your service provider). When so many Indians are famous for the "missed calls", this option certainly beats that.

In the current market, many telecoms operators have 'free email to SMS gateways' which we can use to forward simple text emails to a mobile phone. In simple terms, you can drop an email to any phone number using the recipient's service provider's SMS Gateway.

How? Its simple. Just drop an email to <10 digit="" number="" phone="">@ServiceProvidersGateway

You just need to know your friend's phone number and the carrier (Eg. Airtel, Sprint) to start emailing to their mobile phone.
The table below lists a few free 'email to SMS gateways' for different carriers. You can use this as a quick reference for India, USA and International mobile numbers.

Eg:  
Airtel (Karnataka, India) number@airtelkk.com
919845n@airtelkk.com Karnataka Airtel
919895n@airtelkerala.com Kerala Airtel
9842n@airsms.com Tamil Nadu Aircel

T-Mobile [10-digit phone number]@tmomail.net
Example: 1234567890@tmomail.net

Verizon [10-digit phone number]@vtext.com
Example: 1234567890@vtext.com

Sprint PCS  [10-digit phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Example: 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com

AT&T    [10-digit phone number]@txt.att.net
Example: 1234567890@txt.att.net

I have tested this for Sprint (US number) and for Airtel Karnataka (Indian number).

I sometimes use this method to inform myself about any new mails coming to my Gmail. I set my Google settings to forward any incoming mail to another email id. Of course, the other email id is my phone number@airtelkk.com. So, whenever I am travelling and I can't check my mails, I get an SMS with the subject and a brief message content to my phone !! Even you can be contacted any time, provided your phone has a signal.

Beware, your wife might misuse this for sending shopping lists, but on the plus side this costs nothing if she has internet access!!!

Ref Sites: 
        http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/
        http://martinfitzpatrick.name/article/using-email-to-sms-gateways-to-send-free-sms

Android Rooting- Many problems, one solution!

Author: Vasistha ( As told to Aarabhi)

Photographer: Google

Many problems, One solution- Rooting!

My niece Sameeksha ambled into our room and complained to me: "Vashu mama! This game is stuck; I can't go to the next level!" She then handed over my mobile to me and walked away in a huff.

Warning messages for "Low Memory" were blinking on the screen.  The internal memory was running lower than 20MB leaving me cursing my supposedly high-end LG android phone.

This memory problem kept bugging me and eating away at my thoughts. The only way I had of increasing the internal memory was to uninstall my favorite games and apps or clear the caches of most of the apps; hence losing all settings and stored passwords.

 "What's the point in having an android if it can't autopilot itself?" asked my friend. To answer his question I started digging. Apart from the temporary files mentioned above, what else was eating up my memory? How could I analyze the memory usage of the different sections of my phone? LG had also installed some apps like Bollywood and Newspaper which were utterly unnecessary. I couldn’t uninstall them nor move them to the SD card! How to get out of this vicious circle became the question of the day.

This was where the Android OS's specialty came into light. This OS is designed in such a way that we can do a lot of things and customize the phone according to our interests or lifestyle. To do most things on the android phone and to overcome problems of the memory sort, the only criteria required is to ROOT the phone. Of course, once the phone is rooted its warranty expires; but rooting will not harm the phone in any way unless you screw it up due to lack of knowledge.

 Just googling "how to root my phone" will get you about 43,500,000 results (0.17 seconds), many of which are good blogs detailing the process. Once the phone is rooted, what all can we do? The following are a few things that are possible:

1. Uninstall unwanted inbuilt APPs in the phone memory.

2. If you don't want to remove the app but move it to SD card instead, then, just uninstall the APP and download the APP from market. This time either it will directly be installed on SD card memory or you can move it to SD memory once installed using another APP called APP2SD (available in market)

3. You can take a backup of your preinstalled APPs or any APP installed on your phone. This is very useful when your phone crashes, or when you format the memory. You can even reinstall the APPs without downloading from the market again and again. This can be done by copying these APPs to your PC. This will also allow you to share the APPs across devices (to your Tablet or another smart device).

To take backup of system APPs (like bluetoothclient.apk, webbowser.apk, keyboard.apk etc), you'll have to use APPs like Titanium backup, Appsbackup etc. You have to give root permission for these APPs before you take backup.

Changing LCD density using rooting

4. If you want to see which portion of your phone is taking up how much memory, use APPs like "Storage Analyser" , it requires root permision to see entire phone and SD card memory usage in depth. If you are an APP developer or Inventor, you would be building APPS of your own. When you move them to your phone, a copy of the .apk file is moved to /data/local/tmp. To view this path you need root permisiion. Normal file browser will not show this path and files inside this folder. But Storage Analyser shows the exact path enabling you to delete or add files according to your preference.