Forget SMS Mac 1.0: Use iChat instead

By C.K. Sample, III

MacCentral has news of a new program for Mac, SMS Mac 1.0, which runs $10 per year as shareware with an additional $0.10 per message sent.

I
can understand the convenience of spending $10 to send SMS messages directly from Address Book (although if you have a Bluetooth capable phone you can already do this),
I guess, but $0.10 a message sounds like a complete and total rip-off,
as you can do the same exact thing for free via iChat.  Here's the
MacOSXHints post
that talks about this.  Simply launch iChat, choose File–>New Chat with Person... and type in +1 followed by an SMS capable cellphone number instead of a AIM/.Mac user name.  Type away and click send. This has been a free feature of AIM since July 2nd, 2003.

UPDATE: Forgot to mention: this only works in the U.S. and Canada (according to the comments) and it will work via any chat system (Mac / PC / or other) that works over AIM.
 

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