Free Text messaging from your computer

I'm not sure what is more overpriced, HDMI cables or text messaging rates.  Nevertheless, here is a way to eliminate one of the problems.  Pinger Textfree Web brings free and simple text messaging to your Internet Browser.  You can send a text to any mobile number and view replies.  You also get a free textfree.us email address too.  This is needed if somebody sends an image via text, it gets sent to the email account.  The only apparent downside is that you cannot import contacts, but it does keep a 72 hour log, so you can resume any conversation within that time period by hitting reply.