Message Routing

When you send an SMS text message from either the SMS Mac widget or SMS Vista gadget, the message first goes through our server. Our server then submits the message to an SMS gateway. An SMS gateway has connections to the different networks in most countries. SMS Mac uses several different SMS gateways.

SMS Mac chooses the right gateway from the recipient's mobile phone number. The gateway depends on the country and sometimes even the mobile network.

We constantly monitor the sent messages. When a gateway has many failed SMS to a destination we change its routing to another SMS gateway. This allows us to quickly respond to problems and maintain a high quality of message delivery.

For almost all numbers our general routing works without problems. Once in a while a number is difficult to reach. Maybe it was ported to a different mobile network. We can then set up special routing for this number.

Send SMS Dashboard Widget

I'd like to say thanks to Don McAllister who added the voice to a short QuickTime movie we just recently made about our award-winning Send SMS Dashboard Widget. It shows you in just a few steps how easy it is to configure the widget and then send a SMS text message to any mobile in the world.

The Send SMS Dashboard Widget won the second Apple Dashboard Widget Contest.

SMS Log

Some SMS Mac users have asked for a history of the SMS they have sent with SMS Mac. At some point, we will add this feature to the SMS Mac software. At the moment, however, we don't have this feature in the SMS Mac software itself.

However, there is a kind of workaround that is similar to having an SMS log. Just enable the preference "Email a Copy of the SMS". You can find this preference in the Handle Reports preference pane.

In this way, you will build up a log of all the SMS you sent in your email box.

Send SMS Dashboard Widget and Leopard

Some weeks ago, I received an email from Apple. They requested some changes in the code of the Send SMS Dashboard widget to make it fully compatible with Leopard, Apple's upcoming Mac OS X release.

So, we did that, and in the next few days Send SMS 2.1.1 will be released on our servers.

SMS Mac/Vista now has a blog.

The developers of SMS Mac and SMS Vista will talk about their products in this blog. We plan to discuss tips and talk about our current and upcoming releases.