post@posterous.com — posting, blogging, twittering
twittermail.com — twitter
iwantsandy.com — calendar
ask@nownow.com — search people-powered
ask@snapask.com — search automatically
weather@getpeek.net — send it a zip code or city name and get back the weather
24@hitmelater.com — change the # in the address and get your original email sent back to you that many hours later
emailfuture.com — similar
www.www4mail.org — surf the web
zaptxt.com — control your home PC
www.runtime.org/remotebymail.htm — similar – remote control
dailylit.com — read books!
What do you guys think? Do you guys have home brews that you like?
Chris Combs | 22-Sep-08 at 4:24 pm | Permalink
text@pagegetter.com
ftpmail@dna.affrc.go.jp
spike | 29-Sep-08 at 8:03 am | Permalink
Well, here’s what I want but haven’t found a solution for yet. I want a person to be able to call MY number (or, say there’s a phone number associated with my Peek – Maybe a T-Mobile number?). I want them to hear a greeting made by me inviting them to leave me a voicemail. Then I want a service to take that voicemail, convert it to text, and email it to me so that I can view it on my Peek.
John | 02-Oct-08 at 11:20 am | Permalink
Spike… if you have Vonage they offer this type of service. Every voicemail can get converted to text and emailed to a designated account.
spike | 03-Oct-08 at 11:32 am | Permalink
Not a big fan of subsequent posts, but here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleflip
TeleFlip / FlipMail is… WAS the solution I am looking for. Unfortunately, they are now defunct. I would LOVE for Peek to:
1. Buy this technology
2. Reduce their monthly charge to $10-$15 w/o TeleFlip / Flipmail
3. Charge $5-$10 for TeleFlip / FlipMail.
Dan | 03-Oct-08 at 1:36 pm | Permalink
Fascinating, we looked at teleflip a while back to enable email to SMS (and visa versa). We will definitely look more into this.
Simon Goetz | 09-Oct-08 at 9:49 pm | Permalink
I agree. If Spike’s wishes could be granted by the kind engineers at Peek (or by the tireless hackers), and I could get all calls directed to voicemail and then converted to text, I would give up my cellphone entirely. If someone finds a solution, email me and I’ll buy you an ice cream sunday. I’ll also jump up and down until the tenant below me bangs on the ceiling with her mop handle.
Derek | 16-Oct-08 at 9:17 am | Permalink
I’ve recently been using MessageDance for twittering via Peek. Pretty convenient central point of integration for posting to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Could use some help on their name though: http://www.messagedance.com
Opie | 17-Oct-08 at 10:39 pm | Permalink
http://Ping.fm/ works completely via an email gateway.
spike | 22-Oct-08 at 8:31 am | Permalink
I use this list to initiate sending email to SMS and them SMS to email back. I say initiate because many times I must first send them an email via SMS in order for the other person to communicate back – via replying to my sent message. Often, people are unable to initiate an SMS to email, but usually have no problem when replying to something I’ve sent them first.
Of course I have to ask them which carrier they use. Kind of invasive and a pain sometimes.
T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
where phonenumber = your 10 digit phone number
And here’s a link with more carriers and more in-depth information:
http://www.sms411.net/2006/07/how-to-send-email-to-phone.html
MarkW | 01-Nov-08 at 5:23 pm | Permalink
@Spike – check out voicemail from http://www.youmail.com; that service can transcribe your voicemail messages and then email them to an address of your choosing.
Is there an email gateway that will create a JPEG image from an HTML/PDF/DOC/PPT/PDF etc attachment? If so, that would be a quick way for Peek uses to view many additional file formats.
Jana | 03-Nov-08 at 11:01 pm | Permalink
Spike-thanks for the text info. Cingular is AT&T again…was/is/whatever….so the last part of that is txt.att.net instead of cingularme.com (or at least that’s what my cell number returns for an addy)