Yesterday, I made a post regarding a little webapp I developed to send your O2 Ireland webtext messages from your iPhone.
I’ve made some progress since and now have now got it working under all 3 operators (O2, Vodafone and Meteor) to send your webtext messages. And also have a couple of changes since too such as only requiring you to log-in once, validation and I also took out the 3KB images which will eat up your data charges (unless it’s in cache of course).
Anyways.. to summarise (for those who couldn’t be arsed reading my previous post regarding this), I put a very basic page together in which you can send your O2 / Meteor / Vodafone webtexts from your iPhone. I’m a mere designer of the page.. the actual scripting of sending the messages was created by Boards.ie Sam Vimes (and already has a very similar project sitting on another Boards.ie members webpage ’s webspace ).
How to use it:
- Go to iphonetext.basquille.net on your iPhone Mobile Safari browser.
- Login using your mobile number and password (along with selecting your operator) - screenshot.
- Now on the next page, enter the phone number of the person you’re sending to and your message under it (maximum length of 160 characters only supported right now) - screenshot.
- And click the ‘+’ arrow at the bottom of your browser and either add it as a bookmark or better yet, click the ‘Add To Home Screen’ so it’s always accessible from there.
- You shouldn’t need to log-in again but if you ever change your password or phone number, simply go back to and login with your new credentials.
Any suggestions, problems or improvements, please do mention below. It’s probably not gonna be much of an ongoing development as when Apple releases their SDK for the iPhone in the coming weeks, I may develop an app for use on the iPhone which will take into account your contacts etc.
Oh, and cannot finish this post without expressing huge thanks to a couple of the lads over at Boards.ie namely Webmonkey, Sam Vimes and Cabaal for either helping with the development or answering some queries I put forth to them.
If you’re feeling generous and you appreciated the project, please do make a donation to my PayPal by clicking below - a euro or two would even be appreciated. It’ll aid in future development of the project (a few donations will at least show me it’s being used and appreciated) and also, MY CHILDREN NEED WINE!!
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March 25th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
That’s pretty cool. Just to let you know that the link you provided goes to basquille.net/iphonetext.basquille.net which doesn’t work.
Thanks.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Cheers for that imLOST.
Have fixed that now.. that’s what I get for excluding the ‘http://’ out of a hyperlink!
April 12th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
It’s a shame that this needs to be run on your site. I’m not sure how comfortable people would be sending their passwords through someone else.
Also, have you seen Adobe Air? I think you could very easily convert what you have there into an air application. It’d be great to be able to webtext from a desktop app. If you’re interested in that - give me a shout.
Also, in case you haven’t seen this - check it out:
http://www.mackers.com/projects/o2sms/
April 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Agree with you completely Kevin.
Simply put, the username and password is passed as a parameter in the URL after login and allows user to bookmark there so the parameters can always be accessed.
There is no storing of any confidential information. I could prove this by posting up the source but would it really put people’s mind at ease? Probably not!
As for Adobe Air, haven’t heard of it but there’s a couple of desktop apps already available such as JSMS (http://jsmsirl.sourceforge.net/).
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Seriously cool app. One question is it possible to remove entries in your phone book?
Cheers,
cathal
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Hi Cathal,
Cheers for the comment.
It’s not currently possible to edit or remove entries for your phonebook. I’ve been very busy as of late, so the blog and application have been put on the long finger.
But my next update to the application (hopefully over the next week or so) will include the ability to edit and delete entries from your phonebook. There’s also one or two bugs which I should look at - such as the actual sending of the message seems to take a lot longer than it used to.
Thanks again for your.
July 11th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Im trying to use this now but im getting an error Invalid login-Failed to connect
I can do it from the meteor site so the server is not down
Any fix?