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Callwave SMS: Google/Vista Gadget for free texts online.

  • 14-04-2007 3:30pm
    #1
    quintron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭


    I posted a while ago about Gizmo SMS, a free way to send texts online. Its still not working but while browsing the gizmo forums I came across this free google gadget for sending international/local SMS texts online.
    It appends your texts with (callwave.com/sms) but I can live with that. Tested it will all Irish networks and it seems to work fine. Haven't had any replies from international texts yet but it seems a lot more robust than gizmo SMS at least for the time being. As its a USA based company, it limits you to five international (read anywhere outside USA) texts per day in current beta, but its handy to have on google homepage for firing off the odd text, and unlimited texts within USA and Canada means its better for us to send texts to USA.

    Get the widget here:
    http://www.callwave.com/sms/sms.asp?src=SY&ver=1.4&os=windows

    faq here:
    http://www.callwave.com/sms/mainfaq.asp#cost


Comments

  • #2
    damo86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭damo86


    Being using it too,in a mac widget too,its on the widgets page on the apple site


  • #3
    culabula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,213 ✭✭✭culabula


    Yes, it's the number one Mac Widget. It was better in the earlier days when the SMS sent did come up as +3538xxx (or whatever you set it as) and was really unlimited, unless you fired several of in a furious burst -as is my wont-and then got blocked. After they updated it to read callwave as the sender, they limited the numer of SMS you could send per diem. However, it's pretty handy when you can't be arsed waiting for O2 Ireland to let you log on....!


  • #4
    quintron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭quintron


    culabula wrote:
    It was better in the earlier days when the SMS sent did come up as +3538xxx (or whatever you set it as) and was really unlimited, unless you fired several of in a furious burst -as is my wont-and then got blocked. After they updated it to read callwave as the sender, they limited the numer of SMS you could send per diem.

    It doesn't read callwave as the sender here.


  • #5
    culabula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,213 ✭✭✭culabula


    Has it changed again? Sent one to my 3 Ireland there and it came up as though from my Vodafone, just like it used to. In the body of the message it reads TEST (Callwave.com/sms) where TEST was my doing.

    Happy days!


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