My Phone Is Being Sucky. I Searched For A Solution And Found Joopz!
So, as of a couple of days ago, my phone is not receiving text messages. I know, I know, call my service provider and sort it out. Well, it’s really not all that important to me at the moment and I really don’t feel like talking to those guys right now. I did, however, do a Google search for a Web based solution. What I found was Joopz.
Joopz allows you to send and receive text messages right from the Web. You can create a contact list to be stored with all of your friends numbers and create groups for sending out mass text messages. I tried it out on my friend Michelle and it worked like a charm. I just entered in her number, entered my message into the text box, and pressed send. About a minute later I got her usual hello, I responded, and so on – all from my Joopz account. The third message from her ended up being “who is this?” because I didn’t come up as “Molly” on her phone. My phone number was shown as the sender and I don’t think she knows my number. I actually don’t think it’s that uncommon for people to not know their friends actual numbers nowadays, so a nice feature addition could be to allow you to add a name instead of your phone number. Joopz is free to use for 10 outgoing messages a month and unlimited incoming messages. It’s just $2.95 a month or $19.95 a year for unlimited messaging and a complete message history. One big reason I chose to test out Joopz is because even though it’s meant for text messaging, it doesn’t require any sort of text message activation, which I obviously can’t do since that’s the problem I’m having right now. Here’s my screencast tour of Joopz:
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