SMS Question - General and ICal alarms

I'm a newbie to SMS -- yes, believe it!
A couple of questions:
(1) Does it only work phone-to-phone or can you send someone a text message via computer. If so, how do you do that(i.e. my sprint was <[email protected]>. Is there a like address with ATT SMS?
(2) I want to set up my ICal alarms to go to IPhone..how can I do that, or do I just use the calendar function? Do I just put in my phone number or do I need an e-mail SMS address as I mentioned above.
Thanks!
An old lady learning new technology

duplicate post...sorry

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My alarms work fine if I happen to have the computer on when the alarms go off. But, if an alarm is scheduled to go off at 4pm, for example, for an evening event, and I turn the computer on at 4:30, the alarm does not go off. This has caused me a few problems with missed meetings.
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So, it sounds like I may have been experiencing the same problem as everyone else (general iCal alarm issues). The location of the preferences file you provided is exactly what I was looking for! I deleted the file, created a test event with an alarm a few mins in the future, and BAM! It worked! For the first time in over... a couple years now (?) I actually saw an iCal alarm.
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LindsayB63 wrote:
To those of you using Mail and iCal in Leopard...
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Just upgraded to a new version MacBook Pro. Where can I find my address book and Ical on my old computer to bring it over?
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If you want cookies:
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/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
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/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
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/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
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Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
For FireFox:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/FireFox
/Home/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
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