Text Message Your Friends Via Gmail

Getting SMS text messages from your friends might be irritating, depending on the mood you’re in, and now it looks like Google is going to encourage us to start texting each other more often – via Gmail. Despite having a few problems when it was first rolled out, Google has brought the SMS service back, and it looks like it should work just fine this time around. You’ll be able to text your friends via chat in Gmail. Once you’ve enabled the service via Labs, you’ll be able to text your friends via their mobile numbers that are saved in your contacts list. Nifty, and it’s free for Gmail users, though you’ll have to keep in mind that there might be a cost to your friend, so you might want to make sure that he’s on an unlimited plan before you send him SMS updates Twitter-style.