JSMS 4.2.0 Released!

Hey folks,

JSMS 4.2.0 is available for download now. If you already have JSMS, then simply enable the “Automatic Update” option in the Preferences and select the “Check for Updates” option from the Help menu.

This release brings lots of cool new features, including the ability to run JSMS in the system tray, cancel a message while it is being sent, enhanced message history and many more changes. Plus any issues people have experienced running through HTTP proxies should also be resolved. Check the “Change Log” from the Help menu for a full list of changes.

Thanks for using JSMS, and please spread the word around to your friends.

Happy texting!

The move away from PowerPC

[Note: This post affects Apple Power Mac users only]

We will probably release a version of JSMS in the future for Apple Power PC (non Intel) users where will will force the automatic update preference to be False, therefore it will not update itself when subsequent (Intel only) releases come out.

JSMS will then continue to work on PowerPC Macs until the operator you use changes their website and breaks JSMS. This could mean it works for you for weeks or years depending on your operator.

This also means that you won’t get any of the new features which we will be including in the Intel builds.

It is unfortunate that we must do this, but the version of Java on older Macs has been holding us back for some time. We didn’t take this decision lightly (I own a Powerbook G4 myself!).

It may be a few months until we drop support for Power Macs. In our poll, 76% of users said they are now moved over to Intel based Macs so I guess this means that we shouldn’t disrupt too many users by doing this.

JSMS 4.1.2 is out now!

Hi Folks!

JSMS 4.1.2 is now out with the following updates:

- Improved accessibility for the visually impaired.

JSMS has been tested using the JAWS screen reader software.

NOTE: The Java Access Bridge must be installed for this to work.

You can now select between 2 different view modes

- Added new ‘View’ menu which lets users view contacts in a sidebar (Full) view or in the classic way (simple). A button has been added for this to the tool bar also.

- Added support for more VoIP websites.

- The O2 address book import has been fixed

- Voip account holders can now specify a phone number at  login to receive replies back to.

- Changed behaviour of the File> Change User item.  It will now totally log the user out.

- Improved import address book code to handle duplicates better.

- Fixed bug where + signs were showing in the user name for O2 users instead of spaces (in JSMS title bar).

- Updated the caret colour to match the foreground text colour.

- Updated the Meteor account info that is shown in the tooltip at the bottom left of the status bar.

- Fixed bug where failed logins were not being reported for Meteor users.

- JSMS can now be assigned to a Mac OS Leopard Space

You will get the new version the next time you launch JSMS as an automatic update or if you’re new to JSMS, download it for free here and get texting!

JSMS Beta Testers needed

Anyone interested in helping us out beta testing new JSMS releases? If so, email us at jsmsirl@gmail.com or leave a comment below. Please include the following info if possible:

- Operating System Details
e.g. Mac OS X 10.5, Windows Vista etc

- Current running version of JSMS (see Help>About menu)
e.g. JSMS 4.1.1

New Stuff

We are currently working on a few new features for JSMS including adding support for more providers and some user interface tweaks.

We also have a few surprises in store so watch this space…

JSMS 4.1.1 has been released

Yesterday we released an update to JSMS to work again for O2 users. Today we have been working a bit more…

As there are a lot of new users coming to JSMS, having our contact import feature working properly is a priority. This is why we have updated JSMS to handle the downloading of all your O2 contacts from the ‘Address Book’ part of their new site. 

We have released another update which will now be able to import all your contacts saving you loads of time typing them in! Just: 

• update JSMS (Help -> Check For Updates…) 
• install the update and restart JSMS
• Go into your phonebook
• Click the ‘Import’ button and follow the import wizard steps

Enjoy!

jsmsirl.sf.net

JSMS is down for O2 users for the next couple of days

Update 11 Nov:

JSMS 4.0.9 has been released and fixes the O2 issues. 

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O2 have said on their website that they will be up grading their webtext facility today and tomorrow. This change will more than likely break JSMS. We will update our code asap and release a fix which all users above version 4.0.7 should get auto-magically if you have auto-update enabled in your JSMS preferences.

If you are running a version older than 4.0.7 you will need to manually download and install JSMS again (don’t worry all your contacts / prefs will be saved) as the automatic update was broken in these earlier versions.

To get JSMS visit:

http://jsmsirl.sf.net/

6,000 Downloads of JSMS and Counting

Since I started hosting JSMS on sourceforge in May 2007, it has gone through some big changes.

Many new features have been added. When I went traveling, Keith took on the task of keeping the project going. However not only was the project kept going, but he actually added great value to JSMS. For example Keith removed our dependancy on any third party servers to do message sending for O2 and Vodafone (Meteor did not depend on any other servers from the beginning).

Lots of other features were added and people took notice – this is when our download rate began to increase.

Probably my favourite feature is JSMS ability to auto update itself. This ensures that when an operator changes the workings of their site, we update JSMS to fix any issues the changes might have caused, and release an update which is automatically installed for each user. This minimizes our support requests and keeps all users happy.

To date, over 6,000 copies of JSMS have been downloaded.

Hello from The JSMS Team!

Welcome to the JSMS blog. This will be the place to come for future news & development updates on the free open source application JSMS.

Our blog at blogspot.com will point to this one in future.

Over & out.
Finbarr

JSMS 4.0.8 released

JSMS version 4.0.8 has been released into the wild. 

Here’s what we’ve added:

- Mac users will now have the toolbar on the top of the
screen giving the app a more native feel (restart JSMS AFTER upgrading to see this).

- Added ‘Clear history…’ function to the History menu.

- In the Phone Book you can now delete multiple contacts
at once.

- In the Phone Book you can now remove multiple contacts
from a group at once.

- When sending to a group, you will now not see the ‘test’
dialog that previously was shown for each recipient.

- Fixed bug where history function was not functioning
correctly when sending to groups.

- Reverse history.

Get the new version now.