Spent the last hour or so playing with now.sms. I was trying to come with a simple way to have people txt a laptop presentation. Either as a live voting thing, or to mimic the ‘txt the stage’ mechanic that you find at many big gigs.

“NowSMS is an easy-to-install SMS Gateway, MMS Gateway, WAP Push Proxy Gateway and Multimedia Messaging Center (MMSC) for Windows NT/2000/XP”

I linked my mobile via bluetooth to the laptop, installed now.sms and this allowed me to send and receive txt and mms on the laptop. The content gets stored in a folder, so it should be relatively easy to get a flash player to load this straight from the disk locally. I had to get a bit of help from Angus on the configuration settings, and outgoing MMS remains a mystery, but it did seem to be remakably easy to link screen content to a room full of mobiles.

The software has a 60 days trail and costs around £500 for a licensed version.

My name’s Sean,

I’m a Graphic Designer at The Brand Union, London office, please be gentle, this is my first…

Here we go. More posts to come once I’ve got my head around it all, I promise…