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For a long time I've been quite unpleased how the "WebSMS" interface of my mobile phone company (Telmore) worked:
- First of all I had to login to the system (every time!!).
- Then I have to click through two menus to get to the WebSMS interface.
- When I click "send" I have to confirm that I in fact *really* want to send an SMS.
Way, way to much work - in fact it's almost faster to use the phone!! So I've been thinking about creating my own WebSMS for a while.
However, after upgrading to Vista, I decided it would be really cool to create a Sidebar gadget instead - so I can send SMS messages directly from my desktop.
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So .. here it is - my first Windows Vista Sidebar gadget - I'm using JavaScript to trigger an AJAX postback (no visible postbacks, please!) and a custom build Web Service which communicates with a remote SMS Gateway API.
It would of course be really cool that the gadget could also receive the reply (the SMS behaves like it was sent from my own mobile phone), however this would require much more work - well, yet another topic on my ever growing "To Do" list...