so here's a cute little retro app - a google extension for firefox that allows you to send web content as a text message to a mobile phone from your browser. the intended purpose: use your curser to highlight whatever text in your browser window you feel compelled to share and then, by clicking on a little phone icon that appears in the upper right-hand corner of your browser once you've installed the firefox extension, send that text as a short message to a mobile phone number you designate. it's simple, but neat. indeed, you don't even need to copy and paste the text you want to forward - just highlight it with the cursor and when you click the phone icon and the window pops up to input a phone number the text you highlighted is already populated in the message window (which you can further edit). keen.
'course how often would i want to send text off a website to someone's phone? probably pretty rarely. but that's the supposed intended use. i just think it's kinda cool to have this icon in my browser that i can use to quickly send off a text message to someone if i don't feel like keying it into my mobile.
link to download the google send to phone extension for firefox.
if you're not using firefox (and i can't imagine why you wouldn't be - among other things this site renders more nicely than it does using IE), then obviously this tool is of little use to you. if you are using firefox then you are probably already well aware of the various browser extensions (add ons) you can employ to enhance your experience. in the odd event that you've not made use of extensions - go to this link for more info and to get started.
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