SMS from iCal!

A great tip submitted by Grant Reeder: SMS from iCal! iCal is great if you have an iPhone or another phone that syncs with iCal, but many phones are not easy to sync on the Mac. iCal alarms have many options including the ability of sending out emails, but what if you don't have a Blackberry or another great email device. It doesn't look like there is any text message option in iCal, but it is easily done. Most cell phone carriers nowadays provide you with an email address that when you send something less than 160 characters to this email address, you receive it as an SMS. What you have to figure out is what it is for your carrier. So you can use the built-in email function to send the reminder to your phone as an SMS. The only requirements are that you use Mail as your email client and that your computer is not asleep when it has to send the email. Here is a list of US and Canadian carrier SMS emails (you can find this info for most carriers by searching on Google) (please check with your carrier for additional fees):

AT&T: (yourPhoneNumber)@mms.att.net
Sprint: (yourPhoneNumber)@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: (yourPhoneNumber)@tmomail.com
Verizon: (yourPhoneNumber)@vtext.com

Bell: (yourPhoneNumber)@txt.bell.ca
Fido: (yourPhoneNumber)@fido.ca
Rogers: (yourPhoneNumber)@pcs.rogers.com
Telus: (yourPhoneNumber)@msg.telus.com

Thanks for the tip Grant!