My go-to reflex for free texting (to the US and Canada, anyway) would be Google Voice, since it doesn't have any sort of ads or anything. Most of the ones I've seen mentioned on Lifehacker or elsewhere complain about apps or ads.

Astrid users, is your web interface working today? I'm getting a funky error and it's now telling me no tasks are due today. Whoot! Except I know it's not true.

Yup, mine looks just fine.

Hrm. That's really strange. I can see all the numbers of my tasks, but any time I click a list, it says, Error: Not Acceptable, and then zeroes out the list numbers.

I just upgraded Firefox, it must have broken it somehow.

Okay, no, it's not Firefox, explorer does it too. WTF, astrid?

smonster, for a while with Atlanta I was using something called like, "textplusgold"--it functioned just like the regular text app, but you had to give everyone a SEPARATE text message number. And every once in a while it would eat a text. ...these days I'd recommend only texting people who have iPhones, because then it's free. ;)

I got email back from astrid saying their site was down. So it's weird it was working for you, ita. But oh well. It's not like I don't know what I need to get done, and it's on the phone anyway.

Did I ever mention I radiate pure awesome? Possibly enough to fuel a webserver, but it certainly let me go in and mark a task complete just before I replied to you.

Anyone know anything about cable modem phones? My phone (through the cable company) cut out about three days ago. I tried resetting the cable modem repeatedly, etc. I called their help but they weren't very helpful. I managed to figure out if I plug my phone directly into the modem (instead of modem-into-wall), it works. But that's not helpful--I don't want to make all calls via a phone tied into that! Anyone have an easy answer before I sit for half an hour (on my cellphone minutes) with a new helpdesk guy?

Thanks, ita ! and meara.