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Sure - your cell provider usually has an email/sms gateway. Set the notifications to goto you providers email address for the phone - usually something like 3085551212@provider.net

"Of course the downside of this is you don't get the notifications in your account email now." If you get a free Gmail account you can send that instant notification to multiple email addresses using filters. And you can keep the original in your Gmail account to boot! Did I mention free. Need an invite? Just ask. I store a copy of the email and have it send a SMS text message to my phone. It's easier for me than push email. Then I can decide if I want to check the email on my Windows Mobile 5 equipped phone. Or if I'm at home/work I just check the computer. Works great. The dog knows the text message alert sound and gets all excited when it goes off! I'm not addicted to FTFs, I can quit any time Deane AKA: DeRock & the Psychic Cacher - Grattan MI Coming soon to a discount bookseller near you- "Tales from the FTF Trail"

Your phone has an email address that shows up as an sms on your phone, if your not sure what it is post who your carrier is and someone will speak up that knows. Just have the notifications sent to your phones email address.

Yeah, if you don't have them sent to an email account or to a MMS address, you are going to get them split into two SMS messages and because it's an email not at text message, a lot of the message will be taken up with the header information. To the OP, do you have an email address associated with your smartphone to which you could have the notifications sent?

Among all the other reasons mentioned, don't forget that PMs can get instant notifications (email or SMS) when a new cache is published nearby.

...if you've got a phone which does that, and you know how to set it up! The beauty of text messaging is that everyone has it and almost everyone knows how to use it. munchime: what's being referred to here is a service which turns an email into a text message. So you set up your geocaching account to send emails in the normal way, and then the service texts them on to your phone. The service itself isn't anything to do geocaching, but evidently someone's written an article which tells you how to use it together with the existing features of gc.com. This is called an "email to SMS gateway" and if you explain it to Vodafone in those terms, they'll know what you're talking about. Unfortunately I can tell you that they don't have one in the UK - they used to but it's closed to new users. There are some commercial services available which do it for a price, however I've never used any so I can't recommend one, and you'd have to be careful to use it sparingly and avoid ending up with a huge bill. If anyone knows of a free one (it would probably be supported by advertising) then please do tell! Bottom line is that unless you're the phone company itself, sending a text message costs real money, so that's going to have to be paid for by someone somehow. Cheers Richard

Fra le tante novità su www.geocaching.it volevo segnalare quella della funzione Cerca-Chiama-Cache! Quante volte, di fronte a una cache apparentemente introvabile, hai sentito la necessità di contattare il proprietario o un amico geocacher che c'è riuscito prima di te? Quante volte hai dovuto rinunciarvi perché non avevi il numero della persona giusta o chi ti avrebbe potuto aiutare non era reperibile? CCC ti consente di chiedere aiuto a un'intera community di geocacher mentre stai cercando una cache particolarmente difficile. È sufficiente disporre di una connessione Internet o, in alternativa, di un semplice elenco contatti salvato sul dispositivo. CCC è anche disponibile come app per telefoni Android! Naturalmente completamente gratuito. Occorre però registrarsi su geocaching.it per poter utilizzare CCC per Android. In soli 2 giorni di iscrizioni a questa funzionalità il numero di cache 'coperte' da CCC è già salito a 846! Quindi per il 13% delle cache italiane potrai metterti in contatto (via cellulare, SMS, Twitter o email) con chi ha già trovato la cache che stai cercando. E questa percentuale naturalmente non farà altro che salire ancora, ad esempio grazie alla tua stessa iscrizione

Okay i kinda understand what i am looking at: Phone carriers and e-mail addresses but don't figure out how to out the info you gave me to make it work you have notifications set up for new caches to go to your email address instead of that email address you put for example "yourcellnumber@txt.bell.ca"...for the part after the @ you need to find your provider on the list and use the corresponding address than when a new cache is published you will get an SMS with the details of that cache alternately if you still can't figure it out, you can always call your provider and ask them to guide you through the process but its pretty simple, i set mine up last week too

Did you set up a paid for notificaiton via TweetSMS? Because I'm on Virgin, I had to set up a TweetSMS account (which costs per sms sent to you). Order of events is as follows:- GC sends email Gmail filters that email and forwards to "TwitterA@twittermail.com" Twittermail posts this message to "TwitterA" on Twitter "TwitterB" (who follows "TwitterA") sees this update TweetSMS is setup linked to TwitterB and to forward tweets by TwitterA to my mobile TweetSMS get paid 5p for the privilege! Complicated I know, but seems to do the job! Matt

Each provider also has a way to MMS a message to your phone. For example, I have Sprint so I have notifications sent to [mynumber]@pm.sprint.com. This works even better than SMS because then you can still click the links in the message to jump to the website for the cache. I prefer this to email because I don't want the geocaching emails cluttering my inbox. BTW, the notifications don't actually put the coordinates in the email but they do have a link to the cache page.

My Android Geocaching app of choice is GeoHunter, which uses Pocket Queries (requires premium membership.) Does everything well, even field notes that can either be saved to a file and uploaded to geocaching.com later or sent on the fly via SMS (text messaging.) I use c:geo to load a few caches on the fly from geocaching.com without having to run a PQ or transfer files, but this requires a data connection with a good signal and drains the battery faster. (You can store the caches for later and/or import PQ/GPX files.) Comes in handy to touch the cache URL in an email and have it load up on the device right away, especially for FTF attempts. However, to mark a cache as found, you must log an entry that is posted real-time on the geocaching.com cache page (again, requires data connection and drains battery.) You could save the log to post later, however, apparently there isn't a field notes feature. Another program that I pretty much keep just for backup is Columbus. It has an attractive interface and nice features, now even shows live online map like c:geo as well as post logs directly to geocaching.com, but it does not show recent logs for imported PQ/GPX files. I don't know why, but you have to press the Logs button from the menu and then it will download the last few logs from geocaching.com. If you want to view the cache hint, you must press the Hint button in the menu. The hint will then be displayed on the screen for three seconds. No field notes and buggy GPX import process (required third-party file manager that converts spaces in the folder/file name to %20 that you must then manually change back to a space.) Two things that I really like about Columbus: 1) all waypoints can be shown on the map along with the geocaches, which is useful for locating parking and other points of reference at a glance without having to go through each cache; 2) in addition to the list of imported/saved caches, Columbus also provides a Travel Bug inventory list from all of the caches.

There's many different ways of getting twitter messages. You can get them as SMS to your phone if you want, or you can run a dedicated application on your PC. You can also just look at the website, get it as RSS, as email, or pretty much any other way that you'd like. Most applications are 3rd party tools thanks to their open API, pretty much anything is possible. Just looking at what Maingray posted earlier in the thread even those other sites are not often updated.

There's many different ways of getting twitter messages. You can get them as SMS to your phone if you want, or you can run a dedicated application on your PC. You can also just look at the website, get it as RSS, as email, or pretty much any other way that you'd like. Most applications are 3rd party tools thanks to their open API, pretty much anything is possible.

Some providers will send you an SMS if it receives an e-mail at a certain account. Have your notifications go to that e-mail address (you know about notifications, right?) I found this using google, not sure how accurate it is. Give it a try and if it doesn't work, check with your carrier. http://www.sms411.net/2006/07/how-to-send-...l-to-phone.html Excellent, I'll save that, as this question comes up a lot, and I'm often one of the answerers. You'll have to send another text out to request the coordinates for the cache though, having the vital information of the waypoint name from the notification. When you think about it, it's not much different than sitting home on the computer when the cache notification email comes in. You don't get the coordinates in that email, you have to go to Geocaching.com to get them. How do you get the coordinates texted back to you? I get the gc # to my phone but I have to call home to my wife to get the coords. I realy hate making that call cause she always sais when are you comming home. LOL From the page linked to by Motorcycle mama: If I'm not mistaken, I tried that with my wife's cell phone once, and it worked. Meaning anyone can do this, and you don't have to have your account all linked up with the texmark feature. It only returns the first 160 characters of a cache page, but in the few tests I've tried, it will always include the coordinates. P.S. There are no brackets, i.e. =====> [ ] around the GC CODE, or also known as the waypoint name. And of course no quotes as the say above.

Some providers will send you an SMS if it receives an e-mail at a certain account. Have your notifications go to that e-mail address (you know about notifications, right?) I found this using google, not sure how accurate it is. Give it a try and if it doesn't work, check with your carrier. http://www.sms411.net/2006/07/how-to-send-...l-to-phone.html Excellent, I'll save that, as this question comes up a lot, and I'm often one of the answerers. You'll have to send another text out to request the coordinates for the cache though, having the vital information of the waypoint name from the notification. When you think about it, it's not much different than sitting home on the computer when the cache notification email comes in. You don't get the coordinates in that email, you have to go to Geocaching.com to get them. How do you get the coordinates texted back to you? I get the gc # to my phone but I have to call home to my wife to get the coords. I realy hate making that call cause she always sais when are you comming home. LOL

Most US carriers have an email address that will send an sms or mms (I prefer mms because the links are clickable) to your phone. I have Sprint and use their mms address for my phone number to get notifications to my phone. Go here to find the one for you carrier.

Some providers will send you an SMS if it receives an e-mail at a certain account. Have your notifications go to that e-mail address (you know about notifications, right?) I found this using google, not sure how accurate it is. Give it a try and if it doesn't work, check with your carrier. http://www.sms411.net/2006/07/how-to-send-...l-to-phone.html Excellent, I'll save that, as this question comes up a lot, and I'm often one of the answerers. You'll have to send another text out to request the coordinates for the cache though, having the vital information of the waypoint name from the notification. When you think about it, it's not much different than sitting home on the computer when the cache notification email comes in. You don't get the coordinates in that email, you have to go to Geocaching.com to get them.

Nálam is visszaáll 80km-re. Gondolom szándékos, hogy ne okozzon túl nagy szerverterhelést. 80-nal tobbre nem lehet allitani. Nekem az is boven eleg, mivel a mail-t direkt olyan email cimre kuldetem, ahol azonnal kapok SMS ertesitest. Azonban van par otlet a feedbackben, melyell az ertesitesek jobbak lennenek, ezekre erdemes szavazni szerintem. Pl. http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/1057923-add-further-cache-details-into-notification-mail?ref=title http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/1175201-more-notification-options?ref=title http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/1187935-notifications-by-state-country?ref=title

While not as helpful for caching on the fly, here is what I do with my Storm and Cacheberry: 1) From my desktop, select a number of caches I want to visit. I download each GPX file into a temp directory. 2) After all GPX files are downloaded, I compress into a single zip file. 3) Email the zip file to my Storm 4) Save the email attachement from my Storm to a directory (on the SD card in my case) 5) Open Cacheberry and import GPX. Browse to the directory where the zip file was saved, select and import. I've just started tinkering with the field notes options in Cacheberry. Really like the TextMarks option. I can type up my field notes, then send it directly to gc.com with the TextMarks/SMS option. When I get home, all my field notes are sitting there waiting to be posted. Back to your original question, I just tested a GPX download via the browser on my Storm, and it worked fine. Using version 4.7 of the Blackberry browser. When I clicked the download link, Cacheberry popped up and asked if I wanted to merge or replace with my existing database.

Virtually every carrier in the world has some kind of email to SMS gateway. One better on that is to get a smartphone (I use a BlackBerry, myself) and make sure that the email address you use on this site is one you retrieve on your phone. You can then use the phone's web browser to get the cache details... and if you have the right software on it (CacheBerry for the BB) and a GPS in the phone* you can then even use the phone to find the cache! * Verizon used to restrict the use of the in-phone GPS. Not sure if they still do. On my Sprint BB I can use CacheBerry to interface with the internal GPS to aid in finding caches.

I was wondering the same to be honest. RSS is a 'pull' technology (the reader program has to request the data and the server then sends it). Low volume notifications (like new cache notifications) are better suited to 'push' technologies like email* (like the current system), SMS, etc... Considering that you may only get a handful of notifications a week (leaving aside people who have their notification area set to 50 miles and covering an entire metro area), it would be far more costly (bandwidth, processing) to do it with RSS... * (In before someone points it out) yes, yes, I know typical email isn't strictly pushed but to all intents and purposes, the way it's used today, it is a lot more push than RSS

Many people use GMail and then use the functions within GMail to automatically forward the notification to other email addresses. Alternately, you could set up and additional notification to a different email address. The SMS Gatway for T-Moble is 10digitnumber@tmomail.net Bear in mind that none of the notifications contain the coordinates. You must access the cache page to obtain the coordinates.

http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-...s/gateway-list/ Also, if you have MMS on your phone, using the MMS gateway address (for example phonenumber@vzwpix.com) will get you more characters than the SMS gateway.

Az ördög ügyvédje még nem szólt... - pocket query: Én szeretek minden egyes ládaoldalt megnézni, mert - ha nem is olvasol végig a leírást - tudom, hogy hová megyek s a láda miért is van ott. A PQ-val nagy a csábítás arra, hogy kimenj, beszedj 30-50-100 ládát s azt sem tudod, miket láttál, jó jó lehet velem vitatkozni, a láda nevére ki-ki talán emlékszik. Típus szerint szűrni pedig úgy is lehet, hogy ránézel a térképre s a mystery s egyéb csalafintább rejtéseket meg meg sem nézed. -könyvjelző: Énnekem eddig bőven elegendő volt a rendes tagsági könyvjelző mennyiség, nem is tudom, mennyi a felső határ. Láttam rengeteg bogarat s érmét PM nélkül is. - statisztika: Készítettem magamnak. Az meg például nem érdekel, hogy mi a legészakabbra fekvő megtalált ládám, ahogy az sem, hogy earthcache micsoda master vagyok, azt nehogy már ők mondják meg. - sms/email új ládáról: Anélkül is van már vagy 10 FTF-em s amúgy is, elég sűrűn nézem a térképet. - com támogatása: 30 USD/év az nem sok, még magyar szemmel nézve sem. Ettől függetlenül én ne fizettem még nekik. Úgy is csak olyan változtatásokat eszközölnek, amelyek nem tetszenek. Milyen jó is volt a régi honlap felépítése... Ah... Majd ha magyarul is elérhető az oldal, talán átgondolom ismét. Csupán szeretek vitatkozni...

Well, what you would get is the first 160 characters of the standard cache notification email converted to a text message. So you tell us your provider, we use the sms list wiki link a couple of posts up, and help you do it. Unless you've already figured it out.