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SMS messaging made easy with the help of Teleflip extension


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DubZ
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I use the Firefox extension Teleflip to send my girl text messages all the time. When you are done typing press "End" and it will tell you how many characters you have left. I'm thinking of improving by typing in notepad then the hotkey will break the message up into multiple parts. Here it is...

;Control + h starts the script
#h::
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
IfWinNotExist Mozilla Firefox
{
Run firefox.exe
WinWait Mozilla Firefox
Sleep 500
}
else
{
WinActivate Mozilla Firefox
}
Send !tf{enter}
WinWait Teleflip
Sleep 500
; type your phone number instead of 1234567890
Send 1234567890{tab}Hey{tab}

charcheck = 0
Loop 
{
if charcheck = 1
break
ifWinExist Teleflip
{
GetKeyState, go, end
if go = d
{
Send ^a
Sleep 100
Send ^c
sleep 100
Send {right}
smsstring = %clipboard% 
StringReplace, smsstring, smsstring, |, 11, 1
StringLen, smslength, smsstring
charleft := 140 - smslength
if charleft < 0
MsgBox You have entered over 140 characters (%smslength% to be exact)!  Please shorten the message before sending
Else
MsgBox There are %charleft% free characters in your SMS message.
}

}
else 
charcheck = 1
}

Return

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DubZ

toralf
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Nice idea, Thanks for sharing.
I just had a look at the TeleFlip homepage. They say you can send an email to that person. So I wonder why you need to know the number of chars left? Is the FireFox extension differently? Does it send SMS? Does it work with non north american numbers?
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savage
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SMS messages are limited in length. Hence the name - Short Message... um.. Something.

DubZ
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The firefox extension is quicker to send an sms (which ends up really being an email). I don't think it works ouside of NA (been a while since I checked). If you send a message with too many chars it may never get to the destination.
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160 characters is the max for SMS messages. A key is to remember that the header info (to:, from:) does count against the total character count for the message.

Most carriers have email addresses that you can send to to then transfer the message into SMS format. Alltel users have the email...
[email protected]
(where the X's are replaced by the phone number, with area code)
Anything that gets sent to that email address gets converted by alltel into an SMS message. Sometimes it splits long messages up into multiple SMS messages.

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teleflip no longer exists, is there any way to do this now?