Manage your calender via SMS; Free meeting, birthday and anniversary reminder

This time do not feel embarrassed when you forgot your wife’s or girlfriend’s birthday’s anniversary or listen to boss’  words when forgot to attend the meeting.  I used to forgot all my friends birthday. but not now, but how, Google calender is here to rescue.

Lets start with the Birthday Anniversary  - > open www.google.com/calendar. if you are first time user it will ask for your country. select country and go ahead. now you will see a new window and a link “Create Event” on top of left side bar. click on it. you will see following window

Note: Before setting SMS, Google required you to register your mobile no with them. only after that SMS option will be enabled. To register your mobile,  in left panel below “My calenders” click on the “settings” then  mobile setup. register your mobile according to instructions.

Just enter the content and in options section set the Reminder, SMS or Email. SMS (Free) is better as mobile is always with you.  enter the time when you want to remind you with SMS  i.e. 5 hour before, 10 mins before etc.

Orkut and Google calender. Orkut will automatically shows you a Orkut friends calender on your profile page. It contains the birthday of all of friends who’s birthday are visible(you can also hide your bday on orkut). just click on it it will import the  calender to your Google calender application. But imported are read only, for doing any change you have to copy the required event to your own google calender,.

click on the “Orkut calender” in left panel.
Now click on “Agenda” its near start of right panel
Now all anniversaries will be displayed
Click on particular, it will open a sub section,
Now click select copy to my calender option
It will open a new window. there are two section, in second section (Options) you will see  SMS section. just set at time you want reminder of birthday. like before 1 hour, before 1 day, before 10 mins.

using this you will never forget any birthday or anniversary.

Free SMS jugaad in India from computer.

Free is the keyword that i guess is the most popular on Google. Cellular calls and messages are cheapest in world( like Reliance just launched 50p all)  but the people like me still search for free SMS jugaad on internet,  When you search it in Google it will take to some fraud site that has again have some condition.  I have compiled  a list of services with which you can send free sms’s not sure unlimited but limited per day. i guess more then 100 sms per day collectively. I guess thats enough.

Indiatimes: SMS. Create a email account on indiatimes. It gives 10 free sms per day.

Indiatimes: Chikka: Its messenger like service, you can send sms from this to mobiles. check it on indiatimes.chikka.com

Indiatimes: mocolife It require mobile no to register, it gives 30 SMS for a single account. but it got lot of features like schedule SMS, you can schedule sms for special day. you can see history of sent sms, maintain address book. check it on www.mocolife.com

Rediffbol: Its also a messenger like service its gives you some limited free SMS per day per no

Yahoo Mail: there is special link compose SMS. you can send free sms

Yahoo Messenger: You can use it too.

160by2 : it allows only 80 char in free message rest 80 used for Ad. you need to create a account for it. you can send 50 sms per day, but 10 sms per no.

Way2Sms: Another great service supported by ads. you can send 140 char sms. you can send group message too. limit is not mentioned on the site. but i am sure it will be not unlimited. just check it on the site way2sms.

there are other services like Google Channel etc. i will write that about later.

if you are still not satisfied with these free. comment me, i will add more after searching. keep reading.. keep commenting

Gmail:Import mail & contacts from hotmail,yahoo,rediff or others

Now need not to login to multiple account to see achieved mails or new mails. You can manage all of your webmail account using Gmail.  Gmail is continuously innovating its features and marching ahead from its competitors. One of the new feature of it which will give you more  control over you all accounts. With new feature you can import all of your mails & contacts from other email-accounts into your single gmail account and can save hours of your time.

How can you do that.

login to your account on top-right you will see this. if you unable to see this, means service is not available in your country.click on the “Import mail & contact”, a new window/tab will open

enter your email account from which you want to import, and click on continue, now it will ask for the password , enter the password and click next , you will be on following window.

here you can select you choice,

Import mail: select it if you want to import mail.

leave a copy: select if you dont want to delete the mail on after import
archive: they will not be displayed in main inbox, rather in archive
Add label: must select this, as it will make you easy to find your mail.

click on start import button, gmail will start importing, but it may take some time before mail start appearing in your inbox or achieve box. so RIP , rest of web mail services.

so you import from various popular account, hotmail, yahoo, aol, rediffmail.

Note: this service is not for people who got gmail account from Google Apps customers account. they have different way to do that.