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We all have those friends we love very much, but sometimes just hate to text. Bad texting habits can happen to good people, and even those of us who fancy ourselves masters of text message etiquette invariably catch ourselves indulging in poor texting behavior from time to time. We've created a guide to help you avoid falling victim to these common texting misfires--or to gently suggest to someone you love it's time to put down the emojis. These are ten texting habits you should do your best to minimize.

1. OMG abbreviations
One of the most common missteps we see in texting is that of those texters who can't seem to get through a sentence without extraneous abbreviations. Be they abbreviations of full words or acronyms, these flubs are dated and dating.

10 Texting Habits You Need to Drop

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the most commonly used internet based protocol for third party SMS delivery. Almost every major carrier in the US and Canada supports this protocol and, as a result, this is the most heavily used protocol. The down side to this protocol is that it is effectively Email, which means that there are a lot of issues that can arise from using it.

Why SMTP Messages Fail

Messages can be sent to pagers, cell phones or other devices any number of ways.

How Text Messaging Works & How SMS Works

Text messaging, when applied right, has been known to be a powerful tool for physical health; SMS has been used in a myriad of creative tactics to tackle medical issues and improve public health. Is it possible, though, that our extensive texting habits could be damaging our own physical health? Believe it or not, several physical ailments have been associated with excessive text messaging

Could Texting Kill You? SMS-Related Injuries and Ailments, and How to Avoid Them

Cellular telephones, or cellphones, are an important part of modern society. When Miss Manners wrote about good manners and etiquette, mobile phones did not exist nearly to the extent they do in our society today. In an effort to assist cellphone users, we have written up some guidelines to help people use their mobile phones appropriately while navigating in polite society.

Cell Phone Etiquette

The idea that new technology is incongruous with the earnest, historic pursuit of art is a common one. Many artists and advocates of technology alike, however, disagree. One such person is Paul Notzold, who in 2006 began a project called TXTual healing that explores the union of text messaging and art and its implications.

Texting Art: How Technology and Tradition Might Be Reconciled

While there are no specific, explicitly stated rules for how, when, and what one should text, there is undoubtedly an unspoken standard of what is appropriate and inappropriate to text. With texting's being an immensely popular and increasingly widespread means of communication, the value of understanding text messaging etiquette is growing increasingly important. In order to be a conscientious text messager, there are several factors one should consider:

Tips for Using Cell Phones

PageGate can be easily integrated with Ipswitchs Whats Up Gold by using the GetAscii module. When you configure an alert in Whats Up Gold, you can configure an execute remote program trigger action to pass alerts to PageGate for delivery.

Send Text and SMS Messages from Whats Up Gold

Cellular hardware comes in three varieties: cellular modem, router and gateway.

Cellular modems are physical devices that typically connect to a system through USB or RS-232. These devices aren't virtualized by default but can be virtualized with the aid of a COM port virtualizer. Cellular routers and gateways can natively be accessed by IP.

So, in theory, you can use any piece of cellular hardware in a virtual environment but what are the benefits and drawbacks?

Physical vs Virtual Cellular Infrastructure: The Pros and Cons

PageGate can be easily integrated with Veeam ONE Monitor by using the GetAscii interface. When configuring your alarm response actions, you can have Veeam run a custom script, which allows you to pass notifications to GetAscii's command line interface in response to an alarm.

Send Text Alerts from Veeam ONE Monitor

Most of us know when to discard, recycle, or compost the items we're parting with, but it seems that many of us are at a loss as to how to dispose properly of our cell phones when we no longer need them. If you are unsure of how to get rid of an old phone, this article will guide you through the process.

Before actually disposing of your phone, it is important to remove your information from it, as phones tend to allow access to sensitive, personal information. The easiest way to rid your phone of this information is to perform a factory reset. If you wish to transfer information from the old device to your new phone, simply do so before clearing the old one.

How To Dispose of a Cell Phone

The introduction of online banking marked an important step for banks into the 21st century; being able to access account information rapidly and remotely is a boon to the modern person. But more and more, online access is not cutting it; web pages are often less accessible on the go, or less user-friendly on smart phones. Many banks have made these services more accessible by developing banking apps, but what about when Internet or data access falter? Text banking offers a quick, easy, and readily available solution.

How Your Bank is Using Text Messaging

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Steps to Write Directly to the PageGate Database