PiggySMS1.2.1

Name: PiggySMS
Rating: 3 (5 reviews)

02 February 2009

Send SMS from your carrier website (was WebSMSLib).

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Overview

PiggySMS (formerly WebSMSLib) 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, remember recents destination and link destination numbers with used accounts. PiggySMS also support multiple accounts for each operator and you it supports CAPTCHA\'s.

PiggySMS is a cocoa-objectivec port of famous JackSMS service for Windows/Java phones. It will also be available soon for iPhone.

It can be extended to support new carriers writing a plugin. A thoroughly commented template lets you create your own plugin in a minute.

It supports over 40+ service providers!

What's new in PiggySMS

Version 1.2.1:

Fixed:

Account names are not stored correctly
Archived messages are not visible in archive browser table
Fixed some memory leaks
Spinning bar remain visible when service update was completed
New added accounts are not visible in composer accounts popup list
If you select a title from destination account (and it\'s not a name) piggysms add (null) to the popup list
PiggySMS still show the donation nag even if you have licensed it
Autoupdate with Sparkle does not works

8 Reviews of PiggySMS

This definitely looks like unfinished, unpolished software. Address book parsing is ugly and shows a lot of null null data and is hard to navigate. selecting smsdiscount no account would not allow me to click ok until i fill in an account also this would be good as a dashboard widget.

(1)

First experience, has crashed on loading services the automatic way. Crashed doing it manually, but now I have "51". Crashes when I try to add a service. Absolutely unusable. But a great idea!!! 2 stars for effort and 1 for it looking like it would work nice... I am using Mac OS X 10.5.6 on a PowerBook G4 1.5 Ghz.

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Seems to have some memory leaks (10MB on launch, but climbs quickly thereafter); tons of interface bugs (changed account names don't stick, services are listed as "never updated" directly after an update, many essential fields and drop-downs are still in Italian); a lot of popular services are missing (where are sipGate and the US carriers?); and the one working service I could find, Vyke, repeatedly froze and called up the spinning beach ball after 40% of the SMS was sent. Oh, and quirky Address Book formattings, like, say, +44 for the country code and area codes in parentheses, appear to cause PiggySMS to short-circuit. The idea sounds promising, but a 1.0 release this is most certainly not. More like a 0.1.

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Supports for companies like T-Mobile, Cingular and Verizon in USA would be highly appreciated.

im just rating it for what i use(which is my gmx premium account) it's fast. it's tiny. and it's easy to use. + i dont have to keep dashboard running. but please do me a favor.... use your app icon for the menu bar :P

This won't work for me with my AT&T USA account. "Sending failed! Unexpected response from server. Try again or update later."

Very useful app... when it will match! I've tried to use three Italian accounts (Alice, TIM and Vodafone); this is the report: Alice (10 steps) => error occurred before asking for captcha ("service not available", but with WebSMS Widget it matches - login elements verified) TIM =>ok until it asks for captcha (however the captcha window is too small, it's very hard to read); after that "connection established, downloading..."; after several seconds/minutes, if i push on "continue" button, it aborts VODAFONE => error occurred before asking for captcha ("site on maintenance"; however, also WebSMS Widget does'nt actually match (but not before asking for captcha; only after, in the window asking for captcha, it appears an "?" instead of carachters, also with "Vodafone Italia NEW plugin" installed). So, I'll be glad to use this app instead of WebSMS Widget, but... I'll wait for the next updates...

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