Month: August 2005

  • SMS widget 1.4 Released!

    Download it! What’s new in version 1.4: Added support for SunCom in the USA. Added support for Bell Mobility in Canada. Removes "Message Sent!" message after user types first character of next message. The SMS widget allows you to send text messages to mobile phones for free. You don’t even need to have a phone…

  • SMS widget 1.3 Released!

    Download it! What’s new in version 1.3: Added beta support for Rogers, Fido, TELUS, and "Beat’s me!" in Canada. You can now send messages to T-Mobile users in Germany with 11-digit numbers (don’t enter the country code or leading 0). Split "Cingular / AT&T" into two different carrier options. Make sure you select the correct…

  • SMS widget in top 11 on Apple.com

    From August 19 to August 22, 2005, the SMS widget was number 11 in Apple’s list of "Top 50" widget downloads. We’ve been in the top 20 from August 17, 2005 to the present!

  • Canada added to SMS website

    The SMS web interface now supports several Canadian mobile carriers: Fido Rogers TELUS You can also select “Beats me!” if you don’t know your friend’s Canadian mobile provider. If you know people with Canadian cell phone numbers, please give the SMS web interface a try and let me know whether or not it works for…

  • New news is good news!

    I’ve created a new page for Sanity Software news (this is it). It will be much easier for me to keep the page updated now that I’m using WordPress to manage my news items. Before WordPress, the process for posting a news item and updating my RSS feed was far more cumbersome. Since this new…

  • SMS widget 1.2 Released!

    Download it! The SMS widget allows you to send text messages to mobile phones for free. You don’t even need to have a phone at all! The widget works with Cingular, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, Nextel, Virgin Mobile, Alltel, and Qwest in the USA. We are also beta testing T-Mobile in Germany. The SMS widget integrates…

  • Free Web SMS Service Updated

    Our free web interface for sending SMS messages has been updated and improved! Some of the new enhancements include: Added option to send your mobile number or email as the reply address of your messages. This lets recipients reply to your SMS messages. Added a "Beats me" option for friend’s carrier. Allows you to send…

  • SMS widget 1.1 Released!

    Download it! The SMS widget allows you to send text messages to mobile phones for free. Your friends need to have Cingular, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, or Verizon in the U.S., but you don’t even need to have a phone at all. The SMS widget integrates with the Mac OS X Address Book, so you can…

  • Free Web SMS

    I’ve created a simple web application for sending SMS messages to T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint customers. Sending messages is free! Now you can type messages on your nice big keyboard instead of fumbling with those tiny cell phone keys. Web SMS is still in beta, so give it a try and let me know what…

  • MeMails — The best nonsense on the web!

    What the heck are MeMails? Well, I hate blogs. I hate reading them, I hate hearing about them, and I hate dreaming about them (which has happened a few times). However, I have to spread my brilliant gibberish among the masses somehow. I accomplish this daunting feat of goodwill by sending out Mass eMails (MeMails)…