How can iPhone users in US and Canada now send free text messages… find it out…

Posted on July 3, 2008
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Trying to save some money is always something positive, especially if you are young and short of money. There is now a simple, but effective way for North Americans to send text messages without spending a single penny.

As you probably know iPhone 3G data plans by AT&T makes users pay an extra $5 every month to get 200 text messages which usually came free with previous iPhone data plans. So below you can read a way to send unlimited text messages from iPhone for free.

Here you will utilize a famous email-to-text service called Teleflip.com

1. Create a new email message on your iPhone.
2. In the To: box type, 1234567890@teleflip.com (where the numbers are placeholders for any 10-digit phone number), type a message and send.
3. Enjoy free text messaging!
The message will be sent to the number in the email and all received text messages will be sent to you as an email.

If you want to use a web app to send text messages, use TxtDrop or Durgle as they work best on iPhone Safari.

It’s simple, but really effective. Hope it helps you save money.

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Mixx.com’s biggest competitor… Web 2.0 is evolving…

Posted on June 24, 2008
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Eric Karjaluoto, Eric Shelkie from Vancouver Canada have recently launched a startup that reminds me a bit Mixx.com. It’s called Makefive and it’s a project that hasn’t received much media coveraged and I don’t know really why. Fortunately guys, businesshackers dot com is always willing to help startups succeed and we have an almost 2,5 years old track. Ok, let’s got straight to the point.

MakeFive is a website that allows people to connect through top-five lists. In it users can start topics of any nature and then share their opinions. This can be useful for finding new restaurants, noting favorite movies, debating topical issues, and a raft of other possibilities. Active members earn points for their activity, which increases their authority in the community.

The founders are planning to integrate a voting/rating system which can be inspired by the one applied Digg.com. The site is expected to remain free to use and the authors do not seem to be particularly interested in finding investors. What seems vital is to exceed what businesshackers.com calls critical mass, which is the minimum number of users that make a startup succeed.

That’s how Eric explains how it all started. “In the spring of 2007, we started to fiddle with social networking. We connected with some old friends got “poked a couple times, but after a little while, we wondered “What’s the point?”. We talk to our friends all the time, and if we lost touch with someone, it was for a reason. We had to ask why this “networking” thing had so little to do with meeting new people.
We reminded ourselves that although some friendships are due to circumstance, most good ones allow us to share ideas with like-minds. We started to noodle with the idea of exchanging ideas and forming connections with people who had similar interests. Soon enough, we were up to our eyeballs in ideas and prototypes for an online environment entirely built around conversation and debate“.

Guys, good luck with this project and do not hesitate to contact us in case of updates/improvements.

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An Italian startup that you probably do not know about…

Posted on June 23, 2008
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Sergio Panseri has recently told us about an interesting startup called: Gizj. The startup is based in Italy and the founders are IT and web marketing managers.

Gizj.com is a personal aggregator site where you can customize all of the content and feeds. Users can choose to have their page private or public. To begin using Gizj.com you must create your page by choosing modules. You can choose the language you want when you are search for modules and then you can perform a keyword search of the modules. Once you find a module that interests you you can add it to your page by simply clicking on it and it will appear on the left side of the page.

It’s a pure free Web 2.0 website with some esclusive: services: thousends of modules and rss resources in 4 languages, a personal daily newsletter, an archive of your favourite news, modules geolocalization, etc.

The main objective of Sergio and his colleagues is to become the leader in content aggregators, with a large users community. They don’t want to rely on external financing so no investors are needed for them to launch this ambitious project.

We have identified severeal areas that are worth underlying. Basically, the main advantages are:

* gain time in order to approach news and services that you only have chosen for you;
* the service is always available from every connected computer to Internet: airports, Internet cafè, hot spot private and publics, hotel, offices, etc.
* the service is free;
* the service is in constant development, thanks to a team of technicians that works full time on the projects and thanks to the contribution of community developers, that publishes their modules;
* the service is offered in many languages for an international project;
* it offers a sophisticated news aggregator and reader, accessible selecting the appropriate option of the section “Options”.

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TorrentRelay - yes you can download torrents with your browser

Posted on June 13, 2008
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One of the main problems most of us have is that we need thousands of programs to perform different tasks. I personally love Opera, and it’s 9.5 release is absolutely great. In case you are still “Explorer addicted” or “Firefox addicted” there is something very useful to deal with torrents.

TorrentRelay is a good way to do without Azureus or similar programs (Bittorent, XlLSM, etc.). It’s a free site that uses uses a mixture of Perl, Python, Ajax and plain HTML to get things done. It’s very easy to use and it takes about 5 min to start downloading a big file. Torrent Relay can only work with browser that support a ‘Save As’ style dialog. You can copy the download link when provided, for a one time use with other applications such as VLC.

We used to have a “buffer not found” problem. This was a major problem with the initial release of Torrent Relay. The problem occurs when the site can’t allocate enough resources to complete the download safely. This buffer bug seems to have been fixed as of June 12th, 2008.

In case you know anything similar please let us know. It’s a what we call a “simple, but effective startup“.