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Text from your computer with Mighty Text

Fumbling with the small keyboard on your phone or searching for your phone when you need to text became a thing of the past with this app. Mighty Text allows you to send messages right from your computer without downloading any desktop clients. You don't have to memorize any of your friends' phone numbers, either. It's almost like having a SIM card in your PC or laptop.

The app works using your existing Google account and requires you to authorize the app on the Web. Once you do, all of your contact information, texts and calls are forwarded … Read more

Send texts from your computer with MightyText

MightyText is similar to iMessage, except for Android. You can send SMS from your computer or tablet (all you need is a Web browser), and still use your own phone number. You'll also be able to screen incoming calls by seeing the caller information on the computer. This is also a great way to stay in touch with friends and family if you forget your phone at home or work and can't run off to get it right away.

Note: You will need a Google account to use this app. The account is used for syncing access from … Read more

The 404 965: Where we tell everyone about it (podcast)

Joseph Kaminski fills in for Wilson again on today's 404 podcast to mediate a most divisive argument: "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" vs. "Dumb and Dumber": who did it better?

We'll also wag a finger at Sony for pushing the U.S. release date back to February 2012, show off a YouTube educational feature guaranteed to upset a ton of schoolkids, and discuss a couple scientists claiming they're getting very close to Matrix-style instant learning.… Read more

MightyText sends phone calls, texts to your browser

If you left your Android phone at home in San Francisco, then hopped on a plane to New York, you could still receive texts and phone calls in the concrete jungle if you happen to have an app called MightyText downloaded on your phone and access to Google Chrome on your computer.

Maneesh Arora, a co-founder of MightyText, thinks it's silly that we can't get texts on our computer, so he created a company to solve that problem. MightyText pushes text messages and calls from Android phones to the computer screen. So far, Arora says, "we have … Read more