I’m a huge fan of the o2sms, a command line application for sending free SMS messages using the websites of three of Irelands most popular mobile operators being o2, Vodafone and Meteor. All of these operators offer the functionality of sending free text messages from their own websites giving users the option to send up to 300 free SMS messages per month, which is quite a lot considering they charge up to €0.11 per message when you use your phone.

The only problem I find with using these sites is that it takes quite a lot of steps to actually send a message. Open Firefox, load the website, login, navigate to the webtext page etc… This is where o2sms steps into the equation. It acts like a specialised browser that automates the actions taken by the user to send SMS messages and provides the functionality through a CLI (command line interface), reducing the process to a single terminal command. Read the rest of this post…