You can ad an AIM account to your iMessages app. Chris, I didn't know about 
that little trick in AIM. I'm going to give it a try.

teresa

On the other hand, there are different fingers.

On Mar 26, 2014, at 6:34 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can you text using the I message App on your Mac? I didn't know that. I 
> thought you could only I message with the Mac application.
> 
> Kawal.
> 
>> On 26 Mar 2014, at 01:28 pm, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> If you are running any variant of AOL's AIM (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Web 
>> etc.) you can SMS with somebody by adding a buddy named with a plus sign 
>> followed by their phone number. So adding
>> 
>> +15555551212
>> 
>> would send and receive SMS messages from that phone number. Not sure how 
>> this works internationally but in the states it has to start with a 1 which 
>> is the US country code.
>> 
>> CB
>> 
>>> On 3/25/14 8:24 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
>>> If you do a google search for email sms or mms, you can find a list of 
>>> providers and their email addresses for sending text messages. It's usually 
>>> phonenumberatprovider.com, but not always. I don't have an accessible cell 
>>> phone, and my husband has a tracfone, and I text him a lot using Mac Mail.
>>> 
>>> HtH,
>>> Teresa
>>> 
>>> On the other hand, there are different fingers.
>>> 
>>> On Mar 25, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Kliphton ------- <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> So are there any desktop texting apps for the mac?  We have iMessage, but 
>>>> not everyone I know has an iPhone.  Any suggestions?
>>>> 
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