SMS Widget for OSX Tiger

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SMS Widget for OSX Tiger

by David Chartier (RSS feed) Aug 18th 2005 at 2:37PM

I've seen SMS widgets for Dashboard come and go as they all have some strange catch, like they only work with a specific carrier or you have to pay a service fee through a specific site. However this morning I finally found the one - it works! You don't have to sign up at a site, (Although it looks like this one uses a site by Sanity Software to send them) and it can send messages to Cingular, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, Nextel, Virgin Mobile, Alltel, and Qwest in the USA, and they're testing T-Mobile in Germany. What's even better is the widget integrates with Address Book, and once you chose a contact (or enter a number) and chose their carrier - the widget remembers! As icing on the cake: you can include your mobile # or email so your recipient can easily reply. Very slick and it works wonderfully. There's no registration, though the author asks for donations. Go snag a copy!

Tags: mac, osx, sms, widgets

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Todd Plants said 4:05PM on 8-18-2005

shouldn't there be some way for a widget to know which carrier your friend is on due to the phone number? That would make this kind of thing much easier.

Jona Bechtolt said 6:09PM on 8-18-2005

I agree, it would be cooler if, a) it wasn't ugly, and b) it could just work without knowing the carrier. Still, it's cool that there are options! SMS widgets!

dalton said 9:37PM on 8-18-2005

I'm a fan of the Google SMS Toolbar for Firefox. Don't know if it's available for IE too, but it allows you to clip text from any web page and instantly send it to a cellphone via SMS. I've used it dozens of times to clip directions out of an email so I can find the bar we're supposed to be meeting at that night. Cool little application.

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