Anything 100% free & good for SMS via apps for Desktop PC & Android too ??
vtsnaab:
Thanks !!:
Quote from: corporate_gadfly on February 17, 2015, 07:32:43 am
Are you perhaps okay with trying out a firefox plugin instead? Maybe it will have better memory usage. I just tried it out and it does indeed send SMS for free using GV.
I did not know there was even such an extension.
It says this...:
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Version 0.1.3 Released October 31, 2014 39.0 kB Works with Firefox 25.0 and later
So...I'll have to update my Palemoon variant of Firefox and give that a try.
vtsnaab:
Thanks for understanding my oddities about this:
Quote from: corporate_gadfly on February 17, 2015, 08:04:31 am
Never mind. From other posts, it is abundantly clear that you are averse to Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5SP1 as well.
That app is known to me - and I did try it once on a test PC before wiping it completely.
I keep my PC running lean & mean for years at a time minus any excesses by using mostly portable apps from the HDD and avoiding bloat as much as possible - and for a total non-coder like myself anything beyond .net 2.x is just needless bloat & best avoided.
ddalley:
In your top post, vtsnaab, you mention that text+ is not reliable, for you. I just want to say that, for anyone else looking into this thread and are wondering what to use for free text messaging to real phones, text+ works great, for me. I was quite amazed to learn that it will even transfer image files in messages!
I've never had a problem sending or receiving text messages regarding real phones, so maybe something is going on at your end. There are other such programs in the Android store, too, but I never needed them, so I never used them. text+ is the bee's knees, as far as I am concerned. Free SMS to real phones? What's not to like?
However, it is for tablets and smart phones only, not PCs, so it won't help you there.
vtsnaab:
Indeed - sometimes sent messages just vanished altogether...:
Quote from: ddalley on February 17, 2015, 10:51:36 pm
In your top post, vtsnaab, you mention that text+ is not reliable, for you. I just want to say that, for anyone else looking into this thread and are wondering what to use for free text messaging to real phones, text+ works great, for me. I was quite amazed to learn that it will even transfer image files in messages!
I've never had a problem sending or receiving text messages regarding real phones, so maybe something is going on at your end. There are other such programs in the Android store, too, but I never needed them, so I never used them. text+ is the bee's knees, as far as I am concerned. Free SMS to real phones? What's not to like?
However, it is for tablets and smart phones only, not PCs, so it won't help you there.
If they made a PC/desktop app for it that would be delightful indeed.
Of course, if I had a super-duper high powered new PC then I could use Android emulation with Text+; but since I have an older PC that is not for me and as you said - they offer no desktop app.
Seems to me that some clever folks would want to make a nice, simple way to combine GV SMS with a nice, simple interface for PC users - but since there is only the one for PCs with .net, I must be mistaken.
Thanks.
vtsnaab:
Here are some further ideas found just tonight, as yet unexplored:
https://www.mysms.com/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reach/
Another angle is ways to use the Android apps from the desktop...
MightyText
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.texty.sms
Mobizen
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rsupport.mvagent
Airdroid is another option - but for all its claims it is actually quite limited.
I also made a combo using ShareKM & VNC Viewer before which allows full usage of the KB/mouse of the PC along with the Android screen on the bigger screen - but it is a bit slow & clunky that way.
That is all for tonight - I'll post more & be happy to see more cool suggestions from other folks here too !!
Thanks.
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