Archive

If you like to keep tabs on your TXTed conversations - either to preserve your badly-spelled musings for posterity or to hide the evidence of an illicit tryst from your better half - this could be for you.

Message Mirror will run quietly in the background on your Symbian S60 3rd Edition phone and make a backup copy of your text messages in it’s own database.

Messages can be searched and exported via Bluetooth, MMS or Infrared.

The messsage archive can be password protected, so you could use it as a way of keeping a secure ‘for your eyes only’ SMS stash if that floats your boat - just delete the originals from your in/outbox and only refer to the copy backed up by Message Mirror.

The freeware version only backs up incoming messages and export to text files. The full version (a mere 8.50 Euros) will archive outgoing messages too as well and allows export as CSV, XML or HTML.

Sprite Software are seeking beta testers for their new SMS archiving software, Sprite Archie.

Archie runs in the background on your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device and periodically trawls through incoming and outgoing SMS messages and sends an archive to a specified email address.

Archie will also optionally archive your call history, logging the numbers and times of incoming and outgoing calls.

At this point you might be thinking, “Hang on, the CIA and the Freemasons monitor all my calls anyway, why would I want to help them out?” but if you have ever lost a texted address or meeting invite, or think it might be useful to receive an email reminder to follow up a missed call ,then you might want to give it a try.

The beta can be downloaded here, and Sprite are offering free authentication codes to any tester who supplies feedback.