Abstract

Mercury is a free application for Microsoft Windows that allows you to send text messages (otherwise known as SMS') via 11 web-based gateways without having to log onto their site. It provides a unified look and feel as well as address book, sent items and enhanced composing functionality such as the ability to automatically split long messages up over muliple texts and send the same message to more than one person.

Supported gateways

A detailed list of the 11 supported gateways can be found on this page.

Support for other gateways can be achieved through the writing of an SMS gateway definition file. Take a look at the protocol if you are interested in getting Mercury working with another site.

Requirements

Mercury runs on computers running Microsoft Windows. Although all versions are supported, Mercury runs best and has been tested extensivily on the 2000 and XP versions.

If you do not run Microsoft Windows, or you would rather a command line version of the application for greater flexibility and use within scripts, web-sites or situations where a graphical interface is not required, then please look at mercurysms.

Screenshots

A small number of screenshots are available to view below. Click on image or the description to view a full size version. These pictures were taken from version 0.4.3 and the look and feel is very similar to the current version.

Entering a messageEditing a contact

Licence

Mercury is distributed under the GNU GPL. In short, this means you get the code absolutely free. In addition you can freely make modifications to that code and redistribute it, as long as you use the same licence. For more details about the GNU GPL see the Frequently Asked Questions.

Download

Source code

You can download the source code from here. It contains the Visual Basic 6 source code, help files, install scripts, images and documentation on how it works. It is 3.2 megabytes in size.

Support

There is a Google Groups forum available where you can post words of encouragement, questions, problems, bug reports, ideas and anything else which you find helpful. You don't need to register to post.

If you use an RSS reader or have a fairly modern web browser (in other words, you aren't using Microsoft's Internet Explorer) then you can subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of new postings.

This can be done using your browsers dedicated RSS button or by adding this link to your application of choice (Feedreader and RSS Bandit are both simple to use and free).

Unstable (preview) releases

If you fancy living on the bleeding edge, so to speak, you can download preview 1 (dated 16 June 2006) of Mercury 1.0.2. This is an unstable preview and should not be considered indicative of the final release.

To install, backup your current Program Files\Mercury folder (in case of any problems) and then decompress the contents of this zip file (336k) into that folder. This will overwrite the current executable and help file with the new version. A list of changes can be found in the history section of the help file.

To ensure that my time is concentrated on getting this version working rather than helping people with trivial problems, please do not attempt to use this unless you are completely au fait with how Mercury works and Windows in general.

However, if you have any comments, questions or suggestions regarding this preview then please feel free to post them in the Google Groups forum.

This software and website are not affiliated or endorsed by any of the SMS providers listed here.
The host of this website are in no way resposible for its content or software supported by it.
Mercury copyright 2000-2005 © .

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