Using Google Calendar to send free SMS

I recently wrote a guest post on gHacks and decided to share it with you guys as well. If you set up two Google Calendar accounts, you should be able to send instant messages between any two phones quite easily.

Since the service allows you to register one phone number to send free reminders to, all you need to do is create an account for yourself, register your friend’s/spouse’s/etc’s phone number, and create an account for the other party, registering your own phone number. Remember to set a default reminder for both calendars. It needs to be SMS, and say 10 minutes before.

When you want to write a message, simply create an event, 15 minutes in the future, and type your message in the “What” field. Save the event, and your girlfriend, or whoever you registered should get this message. You can even use it to send timed messages to someone.

The messages will be cut off after 60 characters, but you can create a string of events, 1 minute apart to send long messages. The great thing about this is that your SMS messages are stored automatically, since they are in an event form. You can even create a separate calendar in your account names “SMS”, now you have a record of all messages sent to your wife for example.

Original article at gHacks