You may recall that a week or two ago I had some trouble finding my way from the Monterey airport to the San Francisco airport. The woman at the car rental counter didn’t have any maps outside of Monterey, and couldn’t give me directions up to SFO. I don’t have a fancy phone, but the one I have does support text messaging. Did you know you can text messages to Google and they’ll fire answers back almost immediately? Really, to Google, that’s 466453, no area code or anything else needed. Had I remembered that, I might’ve thought to use that option to get driving directions – you can bet I’ll remember next time! Here’s how it works:
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Services like Google SMS, 4INFO, etc are wonderful for quick look ups and other automated info. There’s another free mobile answers/info service called Mosio http://www.mosio.com that fills in when these sites aren’t quite enough. It lets you text anyy question from your phone and real people online answer for you. As part of the service, if you feel like it you can answer other peoples questions.