email to mobile text question

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email to mobile text question

My situation is this. I use apple mail to text cell phones and I was wondering if anyone knows how to show how many characters are in the email. If I text mobile phone to mobile phone the character count shows up on the phone. Most carriers allow 140 characters

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Posted on Dec 4, 2009 11:19 AM

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V.K.

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Dec 4, 2009 11:56 AM in response to bill billybob

try something like this
http://www.kenclarksblog.com/2009/06/applescript-count-characters-in-clipboard-f or-twitter/
that's the best you can do in leopard Mail. there is a somewhat nicer way to do it in Snow leopard if you ever want to upgrade.

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bill billybob Author

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Dec 4, 2009 12:00 PM in response to V.K.

Thanks so much for your response, I appreciate it. I will be going to Snow leopard soon, just haven't got around to doing the installs yet.

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V.K.

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Dec 4, 2009 12:04 PM in response to bill billybob

when you move to snow leopard you can make an automator service that will count characters in selected text. it will be available from the right-click menu and via a keyboard shortcut if you want.

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