How to send free SMS from Gmail

Google offers the facility to send free SMS through its Gmail chat application. The countries which Gmail supports for sending free SMS include United States, Ghana, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Palestinian Territories.

Gmail users in United States can directly find the Send SMS option in the chat window. Non-US Gmail users have to manually enable the settings from Google Labs to have Send SMS feature in the Chat window. Below, we show you the step by step procedure to do so.

Login to your Gmail account. Go to Settings on the top right corner. In the Settings, select Labs tab. (You can as well click on the labs image directly). In the list of Google Labs products available for Gmail, select the SMS in Chat gadget and click Enable. Likewise also find Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat and select Enable. Click Save Changes at the bottom of your page. Now the options you selected will be available in the left side of the window.

Sending SMS to your contacts through Chat window.

To send SMS to any of your contacts, enter the contact name in the ‘Search or invite friends’ box in Chat. From the box that appears to the right of the name, select Send SMS.

Enter the mobile number of your contact and click Save. In the chat window that appears, type your message and click Enter. Your message will be sent.

If the recipient replies to your message, it will appear as reply in Gmail chat window and will be stored in your chat history.

All mobile operators in US currently support SMS from Gmail. Supported mobile networks for other countries are as follows: Ghana (Zain, Tigo), Israel (Pelephone, Orange), Kenya (Safaricom), Nigeria (Glo & Starcomms), Palestinian Territories (Jawwal, Wataniya Mobile), Senegal (Orange, Tigo) and Zambia (MTN, Zain).

Remember to start with 234 then 805--------- etc for Nigerian numbers. Enjoy the free services of google today. Remember to say thanks below.

How to create a forum

Are you interested in owning your own forum but not sure how to create one? Well, you can own a forum easily without having any technical or programming skills. There are many web host out there that provide you with the forum installation feature. The common forum installation they provided are the forum template from vBulletin, phpBB, Smf etc.

For me, i use Syskay Web Hosting to create my own forum. I've my forum installed with just a single click and it takes only less than 10 seconds. After you have created your own forum, you can add more categories and manage your forum easily by login as administrator. You should have no worry managing the forums as it is very easy and pretty much like using a pre-set application.

After purchasing a webhosting account with a host that provides cpanel, login to your cpanel account, then scroll down to fantastico, there are so many installers listed on the fantastico.

Chose from the forum category where you will see smf, vbulletin, phbb etc, fill the little form with your desired information and in less than 2 mins your forum is ready.

For example lets use the SMF forum to illustrate this.
1 - open your Cpanel control panel
2 - click on Fantastico
3 - select SMF from the list
4 - click on "New Installation"
5 - choose the domain name from the drop down menu (note - only if you have subdomains or addon domains)
6 - choose the directory you want SMF to reside under (note - only if you want to install it in a directory type the directory name, otherwise leave it blank for the root folder)
7 - fill in the admin username (most people use "admin" but feel free to choose any username) and the password
8 - choose the nickname under which you'll be posting and fill in your email address
9 - fill in all other necessary fields
10 - click install - on the next screen click finish installation (if there are no errors) and you're done.

Possible errors - warning directory exists "images" - solution - login via FTP or Cpanel->File Manager naviagate to public_html and delete the directory - then start over
- warning file exists ".htaccess" - solution - login via FTP or Cpanel->File Manager naviagate to public_html and delete the file - then start over
- can not install under "domain or subdomain" there is already an installation that is there - contact me and i'll help fix it.