Those are valid issues. Without some kind of advertising deal, it’s unclear to me how it can be free in a foreseeable future. Carriers and gateways do charge good money for SMS…

We offer a solution to this by having our desktop app to send the messages through your cell phone via Bluetooth. No scheduling support yet, though there’re plenty of other interesting features:

http://www.easypctexting.com/
http://www.easypctexting.com/send-sms-from-pc.html

Not very useful, IMO. I don’t want to ues an inherently unreliable messaging service for reminders. And I don’t think it makes much sense (in most cases) to send SMS to friends/family from this service given that they can’t easily reply. Exception might be if I am abroad and don’t have cellphone coverage (but for some miracle reason a working computer connection).

So the widget tells me to register my phone # before using. I don’t see that option on the site. Hmmmm. Either way, I sent myself a test msg and received it just fine. Not ideal for txt’ing friends though, since you need to type “Hey this is ___” in ever msg!

the problem is the list i used to give out is getting shorter & shorter. the favorite by far used to be http://www.anontxt.com but they recently shutdown because a few pranksters are using the service to screw with their friends.

does anybody have a good list of sites to use? preferably US compatible & require no scripting (for people who use FF + Tor + NoScript).