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Hey Texters!

We are currently offering rewards to all users who create a blog post regarding our application. We encourage you to be honest, give feedback and personalize your posts!

To all Blogs that meet the requirements:

-Bonus 1-year subscription!

To Blogs that exceed our expectations (Creativity/Traffic/App comparisons etc):

-Bonus Lifetime subscription

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Blog Requirements:

-Must be older than 2-weeks

Blog posts must contain a direct URL to:

-http://www.Enflick.com

-http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textnow-unlimited-free-texting/id314716233?mt=8

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To claim your rewards:

E-mail us at Mike(at)Enflick.com with your @textnow.me username. Subscription changes will be adjusted ASAP.

With the upcoming FREE TextNow 4.0 we are excited to see your opinion of our current app!

We have recently made some changes to our server backend to streamline the use of Google Voice with TextNow.

Using these exact steps will let you text your friends using your Google Voice number and account within the Textnow iPhone application.

1. Get Textnow Unlimited in the App Store

If you haven’t already done so, download the TextNow application in the App Store. It is in the Social Networking section. There is also a free version called TextNow Lite if you want to try it for free.

2. Add your @textnow.me address to your Google Account

If you haven’t already picked your own @textnow.me address, do so by opening Textnow, go to Options > Texting Address and select your @textnow.me address.

To add your @textnow.me address to your Google Account, login to Google Voice, go to Settings > Voicemail & SMS, and click on “Add a new email address”.

Put in your username@textnow.me address in the text box and hit save. After doing so, you will receive the verification email from Google in the Textnow application.

To verify your @textnow.me address with your Google Account, you will have to type the verification URL into your browser. (Make sure you do it on the same machine you added your @textnow.me address)

3. Forward SMS messages to your @textnow.me address

Now, you have to forward all your Google Voice SMS messages to your @textnow.me address. To do so, login to your Google Voice account, go to Settings > Voicemail & SMS, and check the checkbox next to “Forward SMS messages to my email:”. Make sure next to it is your @textnow.me address, not your primary Google Account address. To change it, select the @textnow.me address in the drop down next to “Email the message to:” under “Voicemail Notifications”.

4. Initiate first Google Voice texts with your buddies

For Textnow to recognize your contacts as Google Voice contacts, you have to send the first Google Voice text to them from Google Voice’s web interface. Afterwards, their replies will go to Textnow. After that point, all texts you send to that contact with Textnow will go through Google Voice instead of the default Textnow SMS gateway. All future texts you initiate to those numbers will also go through Google Voice instead of the default Textnow SMS gateway.

5. Disable forwarding of SMS to your AT&T number

Go to your Google Voice Settings, then go to “Phones” and edit your AT&T phone number.

After that, disable “Receive SMS” for your AT&T mobile phone number.

If you have any issues setting up Google Voice with your Textnow app, shoot me an email at derek (at) enflick dot com or text me at my Google Voice number (858) 598-4237.

Happy Texting !

Hey Everyone,

We thought we would give you all an update on how things are on our end. In short…busy…very busy. You would not believe the hours that go into updating and improving our apps. We truly love our users and competition only drives us to bring out new updates and features.

PingChat! is moving along extremely quickly! Our Blackberry and Android beta are nearing completion as we finalize and smooth out any last bugs! Exciting eh? We can’t wait to begin reaching out into the android and blackberry market. In regards to TextNow…we have something BIG coming for our users which will not only increase functionality but reliability of the app. To put things into perspective over 80% of our entire team is working on PingChat/TextNow!

We are currently running an iPhone4 giveaway to all users. Click here to go to our promo page. We have also just launched an iPod giveaway – subscribe to our YouTube Channel to win!  Click here

<3 The Enflick Team

Head over to Http://www.PingChat.com/promo and follow the contest details to win! 30 Seconds for a chance to win an iPhone4? DEAL.

<3 The Enflick Team

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We are extremely excited to let everyone know that we are in the final stages of development for TextNow4.0!

Included as a FREE update to all users:

-Picture Messaging!

-New UI!

-Bug Fixes!

-Signatures!

-Faster loads!

It’s our goal to continue providing you with the best and cheapest way to communicate between friends, family and co-workers!

We recently submitted an update of TextNow to the App Store. You will appreciate the minor tweaks we made to the app in this update. We moved the send button to the top – so no more accidental sending (check out screen shot). The new backgrounds that didn’t end up in 3.3.1 will be in 3.3.2 (see post below).

An update has been submitted to Apple with some minor, but important changes:
-Fixed crashing on occasions when messages arrive
-Made the text input box smaller so it doesn’t always take up an extra line (see screenshot)
-Made improvements to the app load time

In the next next update, we will also move the send button up to where it was before. We didn’t want to risk this update being rejected by Apple for it looking too similar to the default texting app since it has very important bug fixes in it.

And one more thing…

We didn’t want to submit an update without anything new and cool – so, we have included another bundle of free backgrounds in this update. Some screenshots of them are below.

TextNow 3.3 is now in the App Store.

What is new in 3.3?
-Parses URLs in speech bubbles so you can just tap the URL to visit
-Ability to add contact information to your Address Book directly from the app
-Ability to copy individual texts from the speech bubble
-Fix the bug where sometimes the sending gets stuck
-Time stamps for the speech bubbles
-Much slicker looking text input UI
-Option to forward a copy of your texts to an email address
-Shortcut to call contact from the app
-Import contact photos from Facebook
-Worked really hard to make receiving messages much faster

Another change in 3.3 is the pricing structure. The app now has an option for year-to-year subscription or lifetime subscription. The app is now $0.99 to download, which includes 3 months of service. A year can be renewed at $3.99 and a lifetime subscription can be purchased at $7.99 (in app). This change will not affect existing users who bought the app already. All existing users will be able to keep their lifetime subscription without paying extra.

MessageNow, our free messaging app for iPhones and iPod Touches just got better. Shortly we will be releasing the Android app for MessageNow, which will finally allow iPhone lovers to communicate with all their Android buddies! And by the way, it’s a free service.

Check out some screenshots below.

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving!

For Black Friday, Textnow and Mail Notifier are on sale.

Mail Notifier is 50% off (from $3.99 to $1.99) and
Textnow is 80% off (from $4.99 to $0.99)

Hurry up before the price returns to normal!

Mail Notifier 2.0 has been approved and is now available in the App Store. This is a free update for existing users. The pricing structure has changed for Mail Notifier 2.0. However, this change will not affect existing users.

New pricing for Mail Notifier 2.0:

$3.99 for the first year
$3.99 for each additional year
$5.99 for each additional 2 years
$9.99 for lifetime subscription

The new pricing will help us continue to maintain the server and provide a reliable service for all users.

We will continue to bring new updates and features to Mail Notifier. Stay tuned.