Free SMS from your desktop (500+/month)

[Richard]

Hi all,

I've written an application that will allow you to send free text
messages to your friends and family from your computer.

How it works is that it acts as a standard interface to other free SMS
gateway providers out there. You can send messages to multiple people,
split long messages over multiple SMS', manage your contacts and
message quotas and much more.

If you already use eGenie (which I also developed) then I would advise
you to try out this application as it is substantially better.

Best of all the application is totally free and a lot of the providers
supply free text messages. It has been worked out that, at the moment,
if you subscribed to all of the free services, this would give you over
500 free messages a month - which isn't bad really!

Details, screenshots and downloads are at http://www.mercury.uk.net/

I'm interested in hearing feedback from you including bugs and
suggestions for improvement. In addition, any recommendations where I
can get the application reviewed would be appreciated.
Regards,

Richard.

 

[Geoff Winkless]

I'm interested in hearing feedback from you including bugs and
suggestions for improvement. In addition, any recommendations where I
can get the application reviewed would be appreciated.

PocketPC and Symbian versions would be cool

Geoff

 

[Richard]

PocketPC and Symbian versions would be cool

Funnily enough I am looking at a PocketPC and Linux version. Can't
promise anything right now though ...

Richard

 

[Rev John]

Hi all,

Hi Richard, whats is is-qoog7.exe for that wants to run at windows start up?
rj

 

[Heather-Scotgirl]

Hiya Richard

thanks again for the update, been using mercury since day one and its great.

I can certainly recommend this program and long may it continue to run....

do you have any other projects in the running Richard?

 

[Richard]

Hi Richard, whats is is-qoog7.exe for that wants to run at windows

start up?

I have no idea, not something to do with Mercury I'm afraid.
Regards,

Richard.

 

[joesilver]

Hi all,

I've written an application that will allow you to send free text
messages to your friends and family from your computer...

Sounds good! Along the same lines, anyone know of a way to *receive*
SMS messages on one's computer for free? There were some sites that
were providing this service gratis a few years ago, but as far as I
know they all eventually started charging a fee.

 

[Me, Myself]

Hi all,

I've written an application that will allow you to send free text
messages to your friends and family from your computer.

How it works is that it acts as a standard interface to other free SMS
gateway providers out there. You can send messages to multiple people,
split long messages over multiple SMS', manage your contacts and
message quotas and much more.

If you already use eGenie (which I also developed) then I would advise
you to try out this application as it is substantially better.

Best of all the application is totally free and a lot of the providers
supply free text messages. It has been worked out that, at the moment,
if you subscribed to all of the free services, this would give you over
500 free messages a month - which isn't bad really!

Details, screenshots and downloads are at http://www.mercury.uk.net/

I'm interested in hearing feedback from you including bugs and
suggestions for improvement. In addition, any recommendations where I
can get the application reviewed would be appreciated.
Regards,

Richard.

Hi there, have downloaded and installed it, couple of quick queries tho, you
mention 500+ a month free sms, where can I get those, the most I have seen
is 300 through 118, the orange site does not seem to contain any free sms,
although am EXTREMELY greatful, even with just 10 a day, thats 30 quid a
month saving!!

Secondly this qoog7.exe you said in another post you dont know about it,
but you said here you wrote it, confused lol, but I dont know the first
thing about programming, all I am concerned is programs on my pc !

 

[Mike Simpson]

Hi all,

I've written an application that will allow you to send free text
messages to your friends and family from your computer.

How it works is that it acts as a standard interface to other free SMS
gateway providers out there. You can send messages to multiple people,
split long messages over multiple SMS', manage your contacts and
message quotas and much more.

If you already use eGenie (which I also developed) then I would advise
you to try out this application as it is substantially better.

Best of all the application is totally free and a lot of the providers
supply free text messages. It has been worked out that, at the moment,
if you subscribed to all of the free services, this would give you over
500 free messages a month - which isn't bad really!

Details, screenshots and downloads are at http://www.mercury.uk.net/

I'm interested in hearing feedback from you including bugs and
suggestions for improvement. In addition, any recommendations where I
can get the application reviewed would be appreciated.
Regards,

Richard.

Look also at Genietexter

http://www.genietexter.co.uk/

 

[Antoine]

Funnily enough I am looking at a PocketPC and Linux version. Can't
promise anything right now though ...

Could a PalmOS(r) support wish be expressed too ?

 

[Richard]

Hi there, have downloaded and installed it, couple of quick queries tho, you
mention 500+ a month free sms, where can I get those, the most I have seen
is 300 through 118, the orange site does not seem to contain any free sms,
although am EXTREMELY greatful, even with just 10 a day, thats 30 quid a
month saving!!

I took a little bit of a liberty and added up each of the ones that
gave you free SMS so:

o2 = 10/month
sms.ac = 8/day = 240/month
118888 = 10/day = 300/month
orange = 30/month

total = 10+240+300+30 = 580/month
(assuming average of 30 days per month and rounded down for good
measure)

I also plan to add fonetastic and a couple of others in the coming
weeks which will increase this number even more.

Secondly this qoog7.exe you said in another post you dont know about it,
but you said here you wrote it, confused lol, but I dont know the first
thing about programming, all I am concerned is programs on my pc !

I wrote Mercury but not qoog7.exe. I have no idea what the qoog7.exe
application is all about I'm afriad. The installer I provide on my site
doesn't contain that file at all.
Hope that clarifies things,

Regards,

Richard.

 

[Me, Myself]

o2 = 10/month
sms.ac = 8/day = 240/month
118888 = 10/day = 300/month
orange = 30/month

total = 10+240+300+30 = 580/month
(assuming average of 30 days per month and rounded down for good
measure)

I also plan to add fonetastic and a couple of others in the coming
weeks which will increase this number even more.


I wrote Mercury but not qoog7.exe. I have no idea what the qoog7.exe
application is all about I'm afriad. The installer I provide on my site
doesn't contain that file at all.
Hope that clarifies things,

Regards,

Richard.

Completley mate, and thanks for the reply, works fast too, using the 118 I
texted myself to test it... arrived a few seconds later!!

 

[T.]

Could a PalmOS(r) support wish be expressed too ?

And Windows Mobile Smartphone

 

[Tony Sutton]

Best of all the application is totally free and a lot of the providers
supply free text messages. It has been worked out that, at the moment,
if you subscribed to all of the free services, this would give you over
500 free messages a month - which isn't bad really!

Can the 'From' line be edited to include my number so they can reply to my
phone?

 

[Richard]

Can the 'From' line be edited to include my number so they can reply to my
phone?

It depends on the SMS gateway you are using.

Generally though, free gateways don't give you this ability. This is
not a Mercury limitation, if I could make them replyable, then I would.

Regards,
Richard.

ps. VGSMail and Kapow! are replyable - but they cost.

 

[Richard]

reply
to my

It depends on the SMS gateway you are using.

Generally though, free gateways don't give you this ability. This is
not a Mercury limitation, if I could make them replyable, then I

would.

I spoke too soon, sms.ac's messages are apparantly replyable (8 free
per day).

I haven't used them in a long while though so it may have changed.

Regards,

Richard.

ps. If you have any suggestions for free (or paid-for) gateways to add,
then please submit them to the forum on the website!

 

[thepearce]

Hi all,

I've written an application that will allow you to send free text
messages to your friends and family from your computer.

How it works is that it acts as a standard interface to other free SMS
gateway providers out there. You can send messages to multiple people,
split long messages over multiple SMS', manage your contacts and
message quotas and much more.

If you already use eGenie (which I also developed) then I would advise
you to try out this application as it is substantially better.

Best of all the application is totally free and a lot of the providers
supply free text messages. It has been worked out that, at the moment,
if you subscribed to all of the free services, this would give you over
500 free messages a month - which isn't bad really!

Details, screenshots and downloads are at http://www.mercury.uk.net/

I'm interested in hearing feedback from you including bugs and
suggestions for improvement. In addition, any recommendations where I
can get the application reviewed would be appreciated.
Regards,

Richard.

Great stuff Richard - I've been using genietexter but I'm converted Much
more useful features (I'm using vgsmail). Check it out peeps.

Thanks!

 

[Susan Bugher]

I've written an application that will allow you to send free text
messages to your friends and family from your computer.

Details, screenshots and downloads are at http://www.mercury.uk.net/

Looks like confusion ahead re the Mercury name. . .

David Harris - author of Pegasus Mail - has a companion server app named
Mercury.

http://www.pmail.com/

Susan

 

[six-toes]

Hi all,

I've written an application that will allow you to send free text
messages to your friends and family from your computer.

what countries can you send to ?
or only UK ..

 

[bigjon]

Richard decided to add:

Hi all,

I've written an application that will allow you to send free text
messages to your friends and family from your computer. (SNIP)
In addition, any recommendations where I
can get the application reviewed would be appreciated.
Regards,

Richard.

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