Shift Content Between your Computer and your Phone!

You can transfer notes and links easily between your computer and your phone with Shifd, a new service (currently in Beta stage) developed by Michael Young and Nick Bilton, two members of The New York Times Company’s Research and Development Lab.

The 'computer' component works either with the website or with a downloadable desktop application.

The 'phone' component works either by sending yourself SMS or by accessing their mobile site in your phone's browser.

Needless to say that everything done via either the desktop or the mobile site or the desktop application stays in perfect sync.

I am aware that competing services might exist, but here everything is kept very simple and the service looks very easy to use. This is a very interesting idea in my opinion, since almost anyone who uses their phone extensively has at least once come across the 'how-do-I-get-this-link-from-my-desktop-browser-to-my-phone" (or vice-versa) issue. I for one am very happy each time I don't have to manually input URLs into my phone's browser (the numeric keypad...well it's called numeric for a reason).

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[Source: SMS Text News]