Yojinbo

sms-fu lets you send messages to cell phones without using a gateway.  It uses the email-to-sms features that all the US cell carriers offer for free as a convenience.

The following carriers are supported:

Alltel, Ameritech, AT&T, BellSouth Mobility, BlueSkyFrog, Boost Mobile, Cellular South, E-Plus, Fido, kajeet, Metro PCS, Powertel, PSC Wireless, Qwest, Southern Link, Sprint, Suncom, T-Mobile (US/UK/Germany), Telefonica, Virgin Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone (UK,Italy,Japan, Spain)

To add the functionality to your Rails app install the plugin from the github repository and then add the following line to your application controller:

include SMSFu

And fire off your SMS messages like this:

deliver_sms("5558675309","AT&T","your message here")

We’ve all seen countless implementations of date pickers with pretty little calendars, but this is the first time picker I’ve ever seen. And it’s pretty damn cool.

Start time (click the clock):

That is friggin sweet! Check it out over at haineault.com

When I have an interesting or delicious looking dish I like to take a picture of it.  Thanks to this new website from Japan your food pics will look even better.  The name of the website is OISHIKUN HENKAN, meaning yummy converter.

Go ahead and upload that lobster tempura JPEG and the yummy converter will spice it right up for you, adjusting the contrast and making it more vivid.  The website asks that you only upload pictures that you’ve taken yourself, and only pictures of food.

via Asianjin