Here’s how to setup your mobile phone if you don’t have a iPhone to send an SMS text to your phone from iCal Event Alarms using Rogers wireless Canada.

First you need to activate this subscription service with Rogers, it’s free so no worries. So here we go:

Text "subscribe" to 0000000000 (that's 10 ceros FYI).

You should get a text back saying you’ve successfully subscribed to the service! Now you can send emails to your phone and it will get switched from email to SMS using Rogers service. The address to send the emails to is this:

10digitnumber@pcs.rogers.com aka 2507779999@pcs.rogers.com

Now iCal. First go to your address card and click edit. Enter your email number as above into the emails field as “other” and hit edit to save. Set up a regular event just as normal and use the “Email” option as the alarm. Choose your Rogers number email address and choose the date.

Here’s some more mobile phone carriers email or web to sms addresss.

That’s it that’s all.

This post was inspired by the F&$*! that stole my iPhone while I was traveling in South America.