henli201@student.liu.se
- whatever you have on your mind.
http://zap.to/PowerSMS
- check this for updates. Also sign up for the PowerSMS mailing list to get
notified when new versions are released.
If you're using PowerSMS Carbon in MacOS
8 or 9, you need to install Carbonlib which can be downloaded here from Apple,
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120047
What's this?
PowerSMS is a program to send SMS (text)
messages to mobile phones. In addition to just sending messages, it has a bunch
of useful functions:
* Phone book. You can easily keep track of
your friends/customers and organize them in groups. The auto-fill feature
prevents you from having to enter the numbers with country codes every time you
add a new number.
* Outbox. This is where sent messages are
saved for future reference.
* Support for multiple SMS gateway
accounts. This means you can easily send messages through your favorite
gateways directly with PowerSMS, without having to log in manually each time.
* E-mail to SMS. PowerSMS can check out
e-mail and forward the messages you desire to your mobile phone.
* Filter function. Allows you to not have
spam and/or mails from e-mail lists forwarded.
* AppleScript support enables almost all
other applications that also support AppleScript to be integrated with
PowerSMS.
Quick Start
1.
Register with www.sms.ac.
2. Enter your sms.ac details (login and
password) in the preferences in the Gateway accounts tab.
3. Add friend(s) to your phonebook.
4. Select
"New Message".
5. Type your message in the window that
appears and select recipients.
6. Click "Send".
7. After the SMS has been sent, a window
telling you the status of the messages will appear.
E-mail to SMS Quick Start
1. Enter you e-mail preferences; server,
user name and password. If your server requires you to connect on a certain
port (as opposed to the standard port, 110), you can specify this by adding
":portnumber" after the server address, i.e. pop3server.com:109.
2. Check the box labelled "Check for
mail every n minutes" and enter a number of minutes.
3. If you have joined e-mail lists or
something similar, you can tell PowerSMS not to forward certain mail. To do
this, check the box labelled "Do not forward all incoming mail" and
then click the "Edit criteria" button next to it. Entering the
criteria shouldn't be a problem.
Hints
* Double-click a user in the Quick SMS
list in the main window to quickly open a new message window addressed to that
user.
* Enter the phone numbers with a country
code, such as +46703514573. To make this easier, use the auto-fill option.
* Double click an entry in the phonebook
to edit it.
* You can resize the fields in the Outbox
by grabbing the bar between them (although the cursor doesn't change).
* Send messages with Enter (not return).
In future versions you'll be able to choose which key(s) to use.
* To avoid ads appended to your messages
by certain gateways, check the “Fill with spaces” button in the
preferences. For sms.ac, this will fill the remainder of the message with dots
instead of spaces.
* You can add new users to your phone book directly from the New message window
by clicking the “Add” button.
What to be included in future versions
- Support for additional SMS gateways.
- A scheduler for sending messages at a
later time.
- Mail me any suggestions you might have!
Known bugs/limitations
- You can only send SMS's to networks
supported by those gateways that PowerSMS supports. See their homepages to see
which ones they support.
- The groups aren't sorted alphabetically,
they are listed in the order you added them.
- Occasionally, international characters
appear as triangles in the mobile phone. If this happens a lot, check the
“Replace international characters” box in the preferences.
- International characters in mails sent
by, for example, Outlook Express are not decoded correctly. Note that Eudora
mails are decoded correctly though.
Registering
This program is Shareware, which means that
if you use it, you must pay for it. AppleScripting (MacOS only) and E-mail-to-SMS is not available until
you register, and PowerSMS will only let you send 20 messages.
A PowerSMS licence costs USD 15.
To register, just visit http://order.kagi.com/?XQ3
You can also use the Register application
bundled with PowerSMS. Enter your name and e-mail address, select how many
copies you'd like to purchase and select a payment method.
Payments are made to Kagi Shareware, who
will e-mail you the registration code(s) as soon as your payment is recieved.
When you've recieved your registration
code, within PowerSMS, select "Register" from the Apple menu and
enter your name and code. Thanks for registering!
Disclaimer
I take to responsibily for what you do
with this product, or what it does to you and your computer (although nothing
bad is likely to happen).
Please send any comments and/or suggestions
to henli201@student.liu.se