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- I’ve been getting tons of questions about the free texting app textPlus. For those of you who don’t know what textPlus is it’s a FREE app you can put on your iPod Touch, iPhone, Android and it allows you to text just about anyone for free. For more basic information about textPlus and the download link please visit here! If your using this app on an iPod Touch to send and receive SMS you need to have a WiFi connection. Also make sure that Premium Messaging Services is not blocked or disabled through your carrier. Here’s some answers to the most often asked questions about textPlus. If you can’t find the answers to your questions below, here’s a direct link to Gogii, the developer of textPlus: http://support.gogii.com/gogii/topics
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1. What is a textPlus address and why would I want one?
A textPlus address is your unique name, word, or phrase that you can give out to your friends and family, so that they can reach you directly on the textPlus network, even if they don’t have the app.
For example:
- 1. Someone without the app wants to reach Drew. His textPlus address is DREW. They can text the word DREW to 60611 and get a hold of him!
2. Someone has textPlus and so do you. They can start a new conversation and send a message right to your textPlus address, no cell # needed! App to App magic! How do I get my own textPlus address? -
2. How do I get a textPlus address?
- Tap the MORE tab, then tap settings.
- Tap ACCOUNT, then tap “sign up for free” and put in a little bit of information (which is not shared)…along with the textPlus address that you want. It’s as simple as that. Make sure you pick a unique name that people will remember! IT MUST BE A NAME NOT A NUMBER (Ex. Chris29, or TechSavyChic or Tina139)Once you have a textPlus address, other textPlus users can send a message directly to your app…without either of you needing a phone number (or even a cell phone). Friends don’t have textPlus? No problem, they can text your textPlus address to
- 60611 and you’ll get the message!
3. What is 60611?
- 60611 is the number your friends without the app will get your texts from. They’ll also see your real name and your textPlus address (so that they know who they’re getting the texts from and hopefully won’t ignore you!)60611 is a short code, which is kind of like a phone number—but shorterEasy to remember, too. So if your friends want to start a conversation with you and your textPlus address is Drew, you’d say “Text the word Drew to 60611″ — weeeee!
4. Why should I put my cell # into textPlus?
textPlus does not require a phone number. You will be able to start and get replies from as many conversations as you want without one.
However, by verifying your number, messages from your friends who use textPlus get sent straight to the app for free rather than being sent as Regular Texts.NOTE:
Entering in your cell # does NOT mean that people who text you to your # will go right to your textPlus app. They don’t do any forwarding or re-routing.5. How do I get alerts and sounds when I get messages?
- textPlus can alert you (with sound) the instant you get a message using one of two methods even if the app is closed.Push Notifications — Recommended because it’s FREE! Manage this in your iPod touch or iPhone settings menu. NOTE: Push Notification is an iPhone and Touch OS 3.1 feature. (it’s only a $4.95 upgrade for Touch users)Regular Text — This is good for users without OS 3.1 who want alerts, iPod touch users who want to have Regular Texts alerts on their cell phone, or anyone who prefers using Regular Text messaging. Standard text messaging rates apply though.
The app still works even if you don’t have alerts on, you’ll just have to open the app and refresh your messages.
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6. How do I put pictures of myself and my friends into textPlus?
- textPlus pulls user pictures from your device’s “Contacts.” Just assign pictures to your friends in the Contacts app on your device and they’ll show up in textPlus! Remember: To make your own photo show up, you must verify your app with your cell # first and add yourself as a contact.
7. What does this cost my friends to use?
- Since textPlus sends your messages as Regular Texts, your friends won’t be billed any differently than they normally do for the texts that they get.For example:
- If your friends have unlimited texting, then they’re set!
- If they get 200 texts a month, your texts to them count against that total -
8. How do I group chat and what’s a community?
A community is a place where you can invite all of your friends to come and chat. Give it a unique name to give out to your friends with OR without the app — kind of like a textPlus address.
A fun one is called BORED.
There’s two ways to join:
- Tap the Communities tab in the textPlus app and type in the name of the community
- If your friends don’t have the app they can text the word BORED to 60611 and join the community!Download textPlus
- textPlus pulls user pictures from your device’s “Contacts.” Just assign pictures to your friends in the Contacts app on your device and they’ll show up in textPlus! Remember: To make your own photo show up, you must verify your app with your cell # first and add yourself as a contact.
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TextPlus Help and FAQ
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What does my Facebook Profile look like to non friends?
Since Facebook changed it’s Privacy settings in Oct 2009 you’d be surprised how much of your private stuff is viewable to EVERYONE! If you want to know what your Facebook profile page looks like to the public follow these simple steps in Facebook.
1. Logon to your Facebook account
2. Go to Account (upper right cornor)
3. Click on Privacy Settings
Click on Profile Information and change settings to desired level
5. Click on Preview Profile to see what your profile looks like to non friends
6. Don’t forget to click on Edit Settings for your Photo Albums to check the privacy settings on them
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How to speed up a slow and bogged down computer
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If you computer is running slower than normal, is freezing or crashing often it could most definitely be caused by 1000’s of junk files, excess cookies and unnecessary programs automatically starting when Windows starts up. So if I were to optimize your system this is what I would do as your tech, but since I’m feeling rather nice today I will give you my secret tech tips complete with instruction! Fist you will download 2 FREE programs and install them on your computer. Both programs are very light on your system, uninstall easily if ever needed and do NOT include any “crapware”. Both pieces of software will run on XP, Vista or Windows 7. I have had all 3 OS and it runs great on them all.
1. Download Advanced System Care Free~ I’ve been using this program for the last several years and it’s a great and powerful program that can scan and clean your system in minutes not hours. It has a one-click approach to help protect, repair, clean, and optimize your PC. With over 35 MILLION downloads since 2006, this fantastic, award-winning free registry cleaner and system optimizer is a “must-have” tool to speed up your slow computer. 100% safe with no adware, spyware, or viruses; a PC maintenance program that’s incredibly easy to use.
2. Download ATF Cleaner FREE~ This program will clean all users temp folders, clean out the Java cache, which seems to be harbouring more and more malware. It will clean Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers, including the cache, cookies, history, download history, saved passwords and visited links. It takes about 2 minutes to run and clean.
Ok so you have downloaded the 2 pieces of software to your desktop. First close ALL running programs as you should anytime you install software. Click on the Advanced System Care set up icon and follow instructions to install. If you don’t want to install the tool bar for your browser just UNCHECK the box and it won’t be installed. Once it’s installed a page in your web browser will appear as a Welcome and User Guide. You can read the instructions or just close the browser. You will also see that before ASC runs for the 1st time it will ask to create a Restore Point allow it to do so. Although I will say in the years of using this program I have never once on any of the computers I’ve installed it on had to restore from a restore point.
Running Advanced System Care FREE
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ASC will start to run on its own under the “Maintain Windows”. After it’s finished click “Repair”. Allow it to finish repairing then click on “Diagnose System” then click “scan”. Allow the software to run through this segment and again click “Repair”. You will notice under the “Security Analyzer” it will more than likely say “suggestions”and take you automatically online to view this segment. Do not attempt to change or alter any of these files unless your a tech and know what your doing. You will see several entries that have yellow question marks next to them but unless your a tech this will read like Greek to you. Basically I use these types of analysis to see all the different services, processes, etc running on a computer. Again don’t alter them unless you know what processes you need or not, many are Windows system processes and are needed. Just simply close out of the browser and click on “OK” in the other box. Finally you can move onto a click “Utilities” button. Under the “Tune Up” tab select Internet Booster, click on Go!It will then prompt you for your Internet speed if you don’t know your bandwidth transfer rate you can quickly check it online at Bandwidth Place I then take an average of the two speeds and set the meter in that area. (Mine is set to 512 kbps, yea my Internet provider SUCKS!) That will complete then move on to the “Shortcut Fixer” let it finish and then select “Repair”.What you see here are just broken links and shortcuts from your system. It not the actual system files. It’s good to remove what’s in this box. Now go to the “Admin Tools” tab and select “Start Up Manager”Now this is the best part of all! Simply UNCHECK the items that you no longer wish to automatically start and stay running when Windows starts up then click “APPLY” then “OK”. UNCHECKING these DOES NOT delete the program it just stops it from auto starting.You can always click on the icon to start the particular program or if you want it back in the start menu just go back into Advanced System Care and click the box next to what you want to auto start hit “Apply” then “OK”. Obviously you will see there are many other features that you can use to help optimize your system however many of the other options are advanced so unless your comfortable and know what your doing it’s best to leave well enough along or have a tech look at your system to make more advanced changes. Final thing to do is click on the “Options” link on the upper bar to the right and uncheck “Execute at Windows Start Up” then “Apply” and “OK” This will make it so Advanced System Care doesn’t start every time Windows does. You don’t need it to run all the time. I would recommend doing the above ”Cleaning” steps once a week or so.
Running ATF Cleaner
This one is really simple. Click on the ATF Cleaner icon check “Select All” it will take a minute or so to clean a box will pop up and tell you how much was cleaned, click “OK”. If you use Firefox or Opera click on those tabs and do the same for those browsers. If neither of those is installed on your system the boxes will be greyed out. I recommend running ATF Cleaner once a week or more if your on the Internet a lot.
That’s it now re start your computer and you’ll notice a difference in the way your system starts up and runs.
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