Just a quick reminder to myself (and other interested), if you need to sign up for something (eg. you have to provide a valid email to recieve a download link, etc etc), then I have been using;
Provide your current email, and select how long your temporary email should be valid for hours to 3 months. I would suggest at least a week or so (you can cancle it immideately at any time).
Accept the activation mail you get from them (in this mail you will also find your temporary email)
You are done, now simply use the mail you got in the activation mail to get those download links etc. Its simple, safe and free 😀
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Bit of an oldie here, and still untested with newer GSM Phones, however should you want to have SMS capability in your organization this may be a cheap way to go.
It requires a compatible phone (and cable) and then you can fire off scripts (or commandlines) to send sms messages. Seem easy enough, but sadly I don’t have a data cable to the old Nokia phone in our storage room 🙁
Update:
I finnally had the chance to test this (I had no data cable for my cell phone), anyway it is all very straight forward until you try to send an sms from command line, this will fail with a message like this “there is no device previously used by SMS sender…….”.
Unfortunately the SMS sender software has a bug that causes it NOT to write your choice from the GUI to registry :-(, so you need to enter the device name manually to registry.
The keyname is;
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SMSSender The key is a sting;
DeviceName And the value is the name of your device/cell phone (as displayed in the GUI)
eg. “Nokia 6230i USB Modem” (without quotes)
once this is done you can send command line sms’s (as shown below P=phone number M=message L=Log message);
One problem with the SMS sender software if you use it in scripting, it will once the SMS is send bring up a message window telling you that the sms was send succesfully, now this is not that practical it this actually ‘halts’ thr process until the message window is closed (the above C++ code will as I can see solve this by killing the window afterwards). Another issue, ONLY ONE sms can be send at the time, if you try to send several SMS’s in a row the software will fail – guess that is logical enough but not that practical if the script that sends the sms can somehow be called several times at nearly the same time..
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Security, WebTemporary mail alias – reminder
Security, Webwww.mailexpire.com
and this service seem to do a fairly good job.
It work like this;
You are done, now simply use the mail you got in the activation mail to get those download links etc. Its simple, safe and free 😀
Microsoft SMS Sender
Scripting, Scripts, UtilityIt requires a compatible phone (and cable) and then you can fire off scripts (or commandlines) to send sms messages. Seem easy enough, but sadly I don’t have a data cable to the old Nokia phone in our storage room 🙁
Do let me know if you try it and it works 🙂
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/outreach/dnloads/smssender.mspx
SMSSender.msi
Update:
I finnally had the chance to test this (I had no data cable for my cell phone), anyway it is all very straight forward until you try to send an sms from command line, this will fail with a message like this “there is no device previously used by SMS sender…….”.
Unfortunately the SMS sender software has a bug that causes it NOT to write your choice from the GUI to registry :-(, so you need to enter the device name manually to registry.
The keyname is;
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SMSSender
The key is a sting;
DeviceName
And the value is the name of your device/cell phone (as displayed in the GUI)
eg. “Nokia 6230i USB Modem” (without quotes)
once this is done you can send command line sms’s (as shown below P=phone number M=message L=Log message);
There are more details plus some C++ code for semi implementation into your own software here (it’s a rather basic launch routine for the exe file);
http://veskokolev.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-send-sms-under-windows-using.html
One problem with the SMS sender software if you use it in scripting, it will once the SMS is send bring up a message window telling you that the sms was send succesfully, now this is not that practical it this actually ‘halts’ thr process until the message window is closed (the above C++ code will as I can see solve this by killing the window afterwards). Another issue, ONLY ONE sms can be send at the time, if you try to send several SMS’s in a row the software will fail – guess that is logical enough but not that practical if the script that sends the sms can somehow be called several times at nearly the same time..
Aparantly there also exists an Outlook 2003/2007 extention (MOSA) that will do something similar vai Outlook, I have not had time to test this but as it’s also from Microsoft it should work just as well or maybe even better(however this requires Outlook);
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?familyId=240080b4-986e-4afb-ab21-3af2be63508b&displayLang=en