on-line sms

Táck

anyone know any sites that I can avail of this for free? I use to use O2 but since the upgrade I cant log on anymore. i'm guessing its probably becuase i changed to three last year!!!

i have tried iol.ie but i cant access that in work. is there anymore?

byrnefm

If you're on VHI (!), you can use: http://www.vhi.ie/sms/freetext.jsp

http://www.11850.ie/sms.jsp

free if sending to the UK: http://www.cbfsms.com/

Cabaal

T&#225 wrote: »

anyone know any sites that I can avail of this for free? I use to use O2 but since the upgrade I cant log on anymore. i'm guessing its probably becuase i changed to three last year!!!

Buy yourself a nice new O2 SIM card for 10e and you'll be sorted...or meteor etc

Táck

yeah but instead of people thinking i have a new number, i'd rather just have an internet site i can use.

11850.ie is limited to 10 per day. thats not enough. i need more. ya gotta help me

the Guru

you can use this one http://www.textmessage.cc/

byrnefm

the Guru wrote:

you can use this one http://www.textmessage.cc/

It only seems to cover New Zealand (!), the US and UK...

Táck

VHI is only abailable for policy holders.

i've searched google, yahoo, webcrawler and nothing. i have noticed that there is planty if indian sites willing to help...but only for indian residents.

RobertFoster

Not used it before - http://www.free-sms.co.nr/

Cabaal

11850.ie doesn't appear to work at all I have to say,

Táck

yes 11850 doesnt work. tried it yesterday. still not received the text.

that free-sms.nr one doesnt work either.

there is a niche in the Irish market there to any budding IT entrpreneurs* reading this!!! even though only Three.ie customers will really be interested. and 085/086/087 who exceed their monthly limit.

*who have too much time on their hands. a common occurence in the IT industry imo!!!

Táck

all week ive searched google, webcrawler, yahoo and finally lycos search results. tried every different variation of search and nothing.

i think thats mad!

fbradyirl

For all you Meteor Ireland customers out there, I have created a small
program you can use to send free texts via Meteor website without
having to log in each time. You dont even need to open a web browser.

Note: You must have a valid Meteor Ireland phone number and meteor.ie password to use this tool.

Features:

* Phonebook function.
* No limit on the characters you may send (it breaks them up into separate messages).
* Shows remaining messages (currently 300 per month on Meteor)
* Enter your login details only once.
* Very simple interface. Press 'Enter' to send the SMS.
* Works behind proxies (not fully tested with all types).
* Works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux & Solaris.



Check my webpage to download for free:

http://finbarr.brady.googlepages.com/home

Táck

fbradyirl wrote:

For all you Meteor Ireland customers out there

and for all of us that arn't? for all us Three customers? what about us?

Mr-X

You should have thought of that before you signed up for 3 then shouldnt you!!!

Táck

twas the lure of premiership goals and 3G calls got the better of me. i should have got my priorities right!

jArgHA

I used www.iol.ie while O2 was being upgraded but you are limited to a mere 3 texts per day Afraid I don't know of any other sites..

fbradyirl - don't suppose you know if anyone has created similar software to your app for O2 customers?

jAH

Táck

yeah i cant acess iol in work here

fbradyirl

jArgHA wrote:

I used www.iol.ie while O2 was being upgraded but you are limited to a mere 3 texts per day Afraid I don't know of any other sites..

fbradyirl - don't suppose you know if anyone has created similar software to your app for O2 customers?

jAH

This guy here has created a command line app for O2

http://www.mackers.com/projects/o2sms/
Its using perl so Im not sure how easy it is to get working on Windows.

If anyone wants to modify my app to work for O2 then feel free. I made it using Java. I have put the source code here:

http://finbarr.brady.googlepages.com/src.zip

Toy

fbradyirl that's mighty impressive, I'd be tempted to get a meteor sim just for this! When you say there's no limit on the characters you may send (it breaks them up into separate messages), would the recipiant recieve several single messages or one long one?

Anything similar out there for vodafone?

Toy

Actually just had a look at o2sms and the current version works with vodafone! It doesn't seem to split long messages yet though.

fbradyirl

Toy wrote:

fbradyirl that's mighty impressive, I'd be tempted to get a meteor sim just for this! When you say there's no limit on the characters you may send (it breaks them up into separate messages), would the recipiant recieve several single messages or one long one?

Anything similar out there for vodafone?

hi toy, what happens is the recipient will get a bunch of text messages with a number on each. e.g. (1) ... (2) ... etc. All my app is doing is pretending to be a web browser so I am limited to whatever Meteors website gives me. Works ok for me though.

I dont think theres anything out there for Vodafone, but someone who can program & has a Vodafone login should be able to modify my code to get it to work with their service.

Cheers.

Fabio

T&#225 wrote: »

twas the lure of premiership goals and 3G calls got the better of me. i should have got my priorities right!

English Premiership goals? Damn right about getting your priorities right...if your from Ireland, support an Irish team! Thats what everyone is other countries do and its the only way it should be!

As for texts - normally I wouldnt go over the 300 Vodafone used to give me and now I'm on Meteor (well,nearly on it...see another thread on how to help me there!!!) I get 300 too. How could you go through that many?