Simple Pager can dial a telephone number through your modem and send a simple numeric page. Pager documents can be saved and double-clicked or otherwise launched to send the page. Simple pager is also scriptable and pages can be sent from Apple Script.
Simple Pager is not free. If you find this program to be usefull and continue to use it you must pay the $7 USD shareware fee. You can do so with the included register application or online at: http://order.kagi.com/?UN2
When you first run Simple Pager the preferences dialog will be displayed. You can also bring it up at any time by selecting "Preferences..." from the Edit menu. You must select the serial port that your modem is connected to. Simple Pager is fully compatible with both older macs with built in serial ports as well as newer macs using a USB-Serial adaptor to connect to the modem. Built in modems in Powerbooks and G3/G4 machines are also supported.
You should not need to change any of the other settings unless your modem requires special setup instructions. Most modems should just work.
When the program is run the Manual Page dialog is displayed. You can also show it by selecting "Send Page" from the File menu. Enter the number to be dialed and the message you wish to send. After clicking the Send button the modem will dial the number, wait the default period that you set in the preferences window and then send the message field and hang up. You may send "*" and "#" characters as well as numbers.
After entering a page on the Manual Page dialog you can save it as a Simple Pager document. In order to send this page again you can simply double click the document.
Simple Pager is scriptable. It supports a single Apple Script command. To send a page via apple script use the Script editor to create a script something like this:
tell application "Simple Pager"
page "123-1234" message "123*"
end tell
If Simple Pager is idle with no windows open for 90 seconds it will quit freeing up resources for the server or other programs running on the box.
Please check out other programs by James Sentman at:
http://www.sentman.com/
Bug Reports and Feature Requests are welcome to the above email address. It is unlikely that Simple Pager will ever be updated to compete with more full featured text messaging programs. It is designed to fill a gap in the low end of software paging services on the Mac. It is also integrated into my server monitoring application Whistle Blower at: http://whistleblower.sentman.com/
If you are looking for a more full featured paging solution or the ability to send text or SMS messages I fully recommend "PageNOW!" from Mark/Space at <http://www.markspace.com/>
