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DESCRIPTION
WebSMS is a nice alternative to send SMS from your carrier's web site. It automates all the boring stuff. It's easy as the cell phone: compose, click, sent!
It gives you one-click access to your mobile contacts from the Address Book. Use a different phone color for each one of your frequent contacts. It even supports CAPTCHA's.
Released under an open source license, it can be extended to support new carriers writing a plugin. A thoroughly commented template lets you create your own plugin in a minute.
WebSMS project is kindly hosted by Origo ETH Zurich. Join the mailing list to follow development, submit bug reports and suggest new features.
Currently supported services:
- Italy
- TIM, Alice, Vodafone, Enel, Virgilio/Tin, Tele2
- Germany
- GMX
- Ireland
- O2, Vodafone
- Switzerland
- Orange, Sunrise, Schoolnet, ETHZ
- International
- Callwave, VoipBuster, VoipCheap, VoipDiscount, SMSdiscount, VoipStunt.
WebSMS is neither affiliated to nor supported by the above companies.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.9.10: - Added plugin for AT&T Wireless USA by Michael Pederson.
- Added plugin for M-Budget by Michele Mazzucchi.
- Ships with latest versions of Alice, TIM and ETHZ plugins.
- Improved indication of the number of SMS left after a successful sending.
- Improved version checking.
- Bugfixes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Internet connection.
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| WebSMS User Reviews (6 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 2 2008 |
DORKYPANTS Addendum: I just tried the VSMS widget, which only works with Vodafone Italia numbers, and it successfully displays its CAPTCHA challenge and then transmits the SMS to the destination phone.
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 | Oct 2 2008 |
DORKYPANTS No longer works with Vodafone Italia: the CAPTCHA image displays as a question-mark icon only, making it impossible to authenticate one's attempt to send. I reverted to ver. 2.9.9, which used to work and it also now is afflicted with the same problem. I used the developer's contact email web form on the emeraldion website to report the problem and have not received any response (not even an acknowledgement).
(Version 2.9.10) | |
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 | Mar 17 2008 |
JHAY0606 is this app similar to CHIKKA? http://www.chikka.com/
(Version 2.9.4) | |
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| Oct 2 2008 |
DORKYPANTS Chikka requires you to register on their website. WebSMS doesn't require any kind of registration of its own (though you still to have an account with a cellphone service provider with a web login and password).
(Version 2.9.10) | |
| Feb 10 2008 |
DORKYPANTS Version 2.9 seems to have lost the ability to pick up mobile phone numbers from AddressBook to send messages to!
(Version 2.9) | |
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 | Feb 16 2008 |
EMERALDION Reportedly, the updated AddressBook plugin doesn't work under Leopard. I'll investigate this issue when able to.
(Version 2.9) | |
| Feb 21 2008 |
DORKYPANTS I'm on Tiger, not Leopard. Importing from AddressBook worked up through ver. 2.8.1(? which preceded 2.9). BTW www.emeraldion.it has been down for several days, showing only a page that says Spiacente, questo sito é temporaneamente disabilitato!
(Version 2.9) | |
| Feb 21 2008 |
EMERALDION The emeraldion.it website will be down until March 1st, sorry for the inconvenience. Please refer to http://websms.origo.ethz.ch for WebSMS downloads and to http://groups.google.com/group/websms for general discussions.
(Version 2.9) | |
| Nov 21 2007 |
CLAUCLAU Nice application, I wish it could remember the provider settings by default when I recall the widget back from its "dormient" dashboard dock without re selecting all the time. The developer is very careful to details and make this widget as compat as possible, if we see the many features it includes (proxy, language choice, colours and modules update), really clever. It gets truly frustrating on Alice on alice account: no service wrong key code when it's not, sometime i have to retype the password in the account to make it work again, but by looking at the many updates the developer released, tracking up the constant changes of the main providers, i assume it's Alice itself causing this annoyance giving a hard time to the developer.
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| Mar 17 2006 |
Make very easy for people with free sms service from: Alice, TIM, Vodafone and Tin to send message. A way to know that your massage was sent. | |
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