If you’re one of the lucky growing number of Mac owners out there you can now send free SMS text from your Mac. There has long been a widget allowing Mac users to send sms text cleverly named SMS Mac the problem with this application (as well as Skype and others) is that you must purchase credits that are deducted every time you send a text message. The rates are right around $.10 each which makes it no cheaper (and often more expensive) to send from your Mac than it is to send from your mobile phone. Using these “solutions” you gain nothing, other than the ease of sending with a full keyboard.

I was talking with another geek friend today and we (mostly he) figured out how to send free SMS messages using Adium.

With Adium open go to File -> New Chat in the window that opens, type “+1″ (the country code – if you’re in the US) then the 10 digit phone number so +13334445555 then type your message. Once you’ve successfully sent a message your new “buddy” (phone number) will be displayed on your Adium friend’s screen. From here you can CTRL -> Click and change the number to the person’s name ie “Steve Cell”.

Hope this helps some of you.  Leave me a note if it does.