Benny’s Brilliant Web SMS Applet
Posted on February 17, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Cork, Ireland, Technology.
Ben has just launched a very simple looking but really useful utility over at Freewebtexts. It is a front end to Vodafone Ireland’s web-text facility (other vendors coming) . If you have ever used Voda’s site, you’ll know that it was clearly designed by someone who hates people and wouldn’t know a standard if it came up and head-butted them (web mail that doesn’t work behind many corporate firewalls. What century is this?).
Ben’s applet is a paragon of simple effective functionality. Check it out and let him know what you think. He’ll be adding functionality to it on a regular basis. And no, he doesn’t want people telling him to re-write it as an Ajax app using ROR.
[tags]Freewebtexts, Vodafone, applet[/tags]
6 Replies to "Benny’s Brilliant Web SMS Applet"
Kieran McCarthy on November 5, 2007
I tried “Benny’s Brilliant Web SMS Applet” at http://www.freewebtexts.com/ie/vod/ but when asked to allow access to java it crashed my browser (Firefox). I tried the same page with IE7 and it also crashed that.
Anybody else?
conor on November 5, 2007
Hmm, I’ll ping Ben. It was setup over 18 months ago and I don’t know if he is still maintianing. The recent complete revamp of the Voda site might be an issue.
Kieran McCarthy on November 5, 2007
Cheers for the quick reply… yes the recent re-design on Vodafone could be the problem it was my own post regrading it at http://www.kmcgraphics.com/?p=20 that lead me here…
Thanks
Kieran
Benny on November 5, 2007
Hi Kieran,
As usual, Conor’s right : following Vodafone’s revamp, this website is no longer working. The application is highly sensitive to changes made on the Vodafone web site. The bad news is that in the short term my employer will get all of my time, but I intend to fix this, I will post news onto this blog as well. Sorry about the inconvenience !!!
Take care,
Benj
Kieran McCarthy on November 5, 2007
Ok thanks Benny, I will look forward to it…
Arthur on December 19, 2006
Can anyone recommend me?
I need an free sms service for my homepage.
I am seeking one with the option to change the design(for a bit).
Thanks a million!