Right so I was looking for a solution to divert my IM’s to my phone and I came across gSMS. It’s a plugin for pidgin (previously GAIM) which is my client of preference. The clever bit is gSMS uses google calendar’s alerting system to send texts to your mobile notifying you if you have received messages. You need a google calendar and texts alerting enabled, which is free to set up and free to receive.
It works by setting an event to occur in 6 minutes time with an alarm 5 minutes before the event. The message is then set as the title of the event. Unfortunately this means the messages can only be reasonably short in length (so no sending me War and Peace) and you also receive a load of tripe about a reminder and the time.
Perfect! I thought, the problem was that is only tells you that you have new messages and who they are from not what they were. So I grabbed the source and messed with it a little and tada! Now my messages, when my status is set to away, get sent to my phone! Get in touch by email (email@tomhodson.com) or leave a comment if you want it released and I’ll inquire with the original author.
Tags: c, calender, free, google, im, Mobile, msn, phone, pidgin, plugin, Programming, sms