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Looking for a free SMS (Text Messaging) widget?

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todd2000

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Nov 14, 2005
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Im looking for a free widget to send text messages. I used to use SMS Widget, but they seem to have merged (or something) with Call-wave, and I can't get the new Call-wave widget to work for the life of me, and the old SMS widget doesn't work either. I've found iSend, which looks promising, but the DL link is broken, and I tried googling, but everywhere seems to point to the same DL location. Does anyone have any other options? Thanks
 
You can use iChat.

Create a "New Chat With Person...", then enter the recipients phone number, preceded by a "+1" (i.e. +18881234567).
 
gr8tfly said:
You can use iChat.

Create a "New Chat With Person...", then enter the recipients phone number, preceded by a "+1" (i.e. +18881234567).
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Just tried sending my-self a message with iChat and it didn't work. Even if I can get this to work is there any way for the recipient to reply? With SMS widget it had a spot to enter my email, and if someone replied it would send the message to my email.
 
todd2000 said:
Just tried sending my-self a message with iChat and it didn't work. Even if I can get this to work is there any way for the recipient to reply? With SMS widget it had a spot to enter my email, and if someone replied it would send the message to my email.
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I believe it only works through an AOL IM account, if that helps.

If the chat window is left open, the recipient can reply and it'll show up there.
 
gr8tfly said:
I believe it only works through an AOL IM account, if that helps.

If the chat window is left open, the recipient can reply and it'll show up there.
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I managed to send a text to my friend using AIM, but it made him sign up for "mobile AIM", and is charging him an extra 10c per message. So back to the widget hunt!
 
todd2000 said:
I managed to send a text to my friend using AIM, but it made him sign up for "mobile AIM", and is charging him an extra 10c per message. So back to the widget hunt!
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Doesn't sound right - did you sent it to his AOL screen name or the mobile phone number?

Not sure if this is an issue, but my only real experience is sending to AT&T customers. I've sent SMS using this method and they come through as SMS, not through AIM on the mobile device.
 
gr8tfly said:
Doesn't sound right - did you sent it to his AOL screen name or the mobile phone number?

Not sure if this is an issue, but my only real experience is sending to AT&T customers. I've sent SMS using this method and they come through as SMS, not through AIM on the mobile device.
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Sent it to his AT&T phone number, and it gave him a whole thing, that said welcom to Mobile AIM, etc... and told his it would charge him an extra 10c per text message when using Mobile AIM.
 
todd2000 said:
Sent it to his AT&T phone number, and it gave him a whole thing, that said welcom to Mobile AIM, etc... and told his it would charge him an extra 10c per text message when using Mobile AIM.
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Whew. Interesting. I actually tried it again when I first posted a reply, and it still comes through as SMS on my iPhone (same as I've had on my RAZR, and other RAZR's in the family).

He is able to receive SMS directly from another phone? Maybe it has something to do with his specific plan.

Hopefully, another member has more info on this. I'm kind of at a loss for now.
 
gr8tfly said:
Whew. Interesting. I actually tried it again when I first posted a reply, and it still comes through as SMS on my iPhone (same as I've had on my RAZR, and other RAZR's in the family).

He is able to receive SMS directly from another phone? Maybe it has something to do with his specific plan.

Hopefully, another member has more info on this. I'm kind of at a loss for now.
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Yes he is able to receive SMS messages from other phones, he actually has an iPhone.
 
i too want this very much.

sms mac is too expensive...

isend doesn't talk to my addressbook...


... thought this would be a big market...

r.
 
so picky am i....

txt drop doesn't use the address book, and the other one doesn't work with iphone...

but thanks for the leads

r.
 
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