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.
We are a little late with this, (over a week actually, we must be under the weather) but fifteen years ago on the the 3rd of this month some telecoms boffins threw their arms into the sky in elation and cried “Finally, a good use for opposable thumbs!“ (probably). And so the SMS was born.
The chap that sent it was Neil Papworth who wrote simply ‘Merry Christmas’ and sent it over the Vodafone network (incidentally, Papworth still works as a telecoms engineer for Airwide). As we reported a while back, 1.2 billion SMS’s are sent every week and their popularity is showing no signs of waning.
Here’s to texting then, let’s just hope they are a bit cheaper (as in free) by the time they hit their 30th anniversary.
(Via Fring)
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.
Cellity, the free SMS provider for online social networking sites, has released a mobile version, letting users send ‘free’ SMS to anyone elsewhere in the world.
We say ‘free’ because instead of paying your normal SMS charge, you pay for the GPRS data downloaded to send the message. So what? I hear you ask.
Well, the beauty of Cellity is that the SMS can be sent to any mobile in the world for a negligible data charge, all by simply downloading the free application.
One standout benefit for iPhone users is that Cellity will let them send texts to several people at once, circumventing Apple’s glaring admission from its device.
You can also keep track of text conversations via discussion threads, much like on Google’s webmail.
You can download the application for your phone from your device at wap.cellity.com, or from the website here.
The cerebal palsy disability charity Scope has launched an SMS service to provide information and support to disabled people and their families.
By texting SCOPE to 80039 you can get advice about cerebral palsy as well as general information about disability related issues. The texts are free and will be answered by members of the Scope Response team to offer support or, if fuller assistance is required, a contact will be sent out. Steve Cairns, head of Scope Response, commented:
Our Scope Response service is a lifeline to people, particularly to parents of children who have been newly diagnosed with CP, and we wanted to be able to support them in any way we could.
Sounds like a good idea; more info about the service can be found on the Scope site.
(Via textually)
Is it 70 million, 150 million, 500 million? No, no and no, the actual figure stands at a staggering 1 billion texts per week, which according to the MDA (Mobile Data Association) is 25 percent higher than a year ago and equal to the entire number of texts sent during 1999.
Speaking to the BBC, head of the MDA Mike Short said that one of the reasons for the dramatic increase is that business are increasingly communicating via the medium of text.
It’s a lot more convenient for a business now to notify lots of their employees about an urgent message using a text message.
Apparently this puts the UK in the top six nations in terms of number of texts sent per year. Now that is some serious thumb power.
(Via BBC)
For some, text messages are a handy means of communicating quick snippets of info to people without having to make a call; stuff like, ‘wrking l8 2night, be back around 9′ or ‘fan c a pint?’. For others they completely supplement the spoken word and text chats that can last upwards of several days dominate their social interactions and their phone bill.
If you exist in the latter category then you ought to at least think about taking a look at the Efficasoft SMS Counter, an application for Windows Mobile smartphones that keeps track of all of your SMS spending. The application counts all of the text messages you send in real-time and automatically recognizes long messages (i.e. those twenty line text opuses you get double billed for) helping you to monitor your spending and keep it within your budget.
Not a bad idea really and for £5.92 you could save yourself the asking price easily in one month.
(Via Clickapps)
Basels Reply v2.0 for Windows Mobile works a bit like Anfy Call Filter for S60.
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