If you are looking for ways to schedule text messages, there are a few dedicated web services out there like TextMeLater, OhDon’tForget and TextMemos. They will require you to register and set up an account with them, but are otherwise fine ways to schedule a text message. But if you are like me, a Boomerang user (well, you should be if you already aren’t), who loves to schedule everything inside Gmail and prefer to have...
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Update: We are back up! (4/22 10:58 AM PST) We will update more info on what impact this outage has on scheduled messages very soon. Our service is was unavailable starting 4/22 morning because our hosting provider, Amazon AWS, is having widespread outage that affected many web services. The AWS outage started yesterday and they still haven’t restored their service. We weren’t impacted yesterday and thought we were safe...
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A few hours ago, we started getting emails and tweets from users about Boomerang disappearing. As it turns out, Google started rolling out their new menu bar to a subset of users and by now, it may have rolled out to everyone. If you haven’t got one, it looks like this. It’s pretty, isn’t it? We set to work making Boomerang work perfectly with Google’s new & shiny menu bar. And we have pushed out the latest...
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Etacts recently announced some great news – they’ve been acquired by Salesforce. Unfortunately, that means that both Etacts and EmailOracle will shut down service today, January 31st. If you depended on their integrated, social CRM service for Gmail, you’re probably finding a replacement service to migrate to and here’s our guide to help you with making your selection. Etacts has three primary functionalities as...
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