Software:SMS

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Make sure you have your Genie account set up and working. The machine you run this application will also need to be able to contact that site. If you use a proxy web server, then you can edit your Genie.pm module and add the line: $ua->proxy('http', 'http://proxy.host/'); in the function get just before the call to simple_request.

Note that this application does not guarantee delivery of messages. It uses the Genie web site via the Net::SMS::Genie application and will fail if that site is down or they alter their methods of access.

The view of the application when it is first run. Enter your Genie username and password (which is not echod to the screen), who you want to say the message is from and enter your message.

Note that you have about 123 characters available for your message. This is because Genie adds a reference to the number used and the SMS Tool adds your name as a subject for identification purposes. A future version will take longer messages and split them into multiple SMS messages.

Enter the phone number of the recipient and click on "Send". The cursor will change to the "watch" cursor while the application is contacting the Genie web site.

You will see a popup like this confirming the number the message has been sent to and the message sent. This is not a guarantee that the message has actually been sent. If the number is incorrect or the Genie web site is down or not opperating correctly, you will still get this message.

To save having to type in phone numbers all the time, you can create a personal phone book of numbers. These are held in text form in the file .phone in your home directory on UNIX systems or the file phone in a guess at your directory under C:\My Documents in a Windows environment.

Select New and you will see this popup. Enter a name and number that you want to store.

Click on Add to add the entry to your phone book. The values will clear ready for more entries. The entries are stored whenever you close the phone book or exit the application.

Your phone book list with the entry added. Note that entries are currently always added at the end of the list, however they are sorted by name whenever you re-open the phone book.

Select an entry and click Select and the number will be entered into the appropriate field of the main window.

You can change an entry by selecting it and clicking on Edit. This popup will be displayed.

This allows you to change the entry how you like. Click on Update to make the change.

The updated phone book.

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	The view of the application when it is first run. Enter your Genie username and password (which is not echod to the screen), who you want to say the message is from and enter your message.
	Note that you have about 123 characters available for your message. This is because Genie adds a reference to the number used and the SMS Tool adds your name as a subject for identification purposes. A future version will take longer messages and split them into multiple SMS messages.
	Enter the phone number of the recipient and click on "Send". The cursor will change to the "watch" cursor while the application is contacting the Genie web site.
	You will see a popup like this confirming the number the message has been sent to and the message sent. This is not a guarantee that the message has actually been sent. If the number is incorrect or the Genie web site is down or not opperating correctly, you will still get this message.
	To save having to type in phone numbers all the time, you can create a personal phone book of numbers. These are held in text form in the file `.phone` in your home directory on UNIX systems or the file `phone` in a guess at your directory under `C:\My Documents` in a Windows environment.
	Select `New` and you will see this popup. Enter a name and number that you want to store.
	Click on `Add` to add the entry to your phone book. The values will clear ready for more entries. The entries are stored whenever you close the phone book or exit the application.
	Your phone book list with the entry added. Note that entries are currently always added at the end of the list, however they are sorted by name whenever you re-open the phone book.
	Select an entry and click `Select` and the number will be entered into the appropriate field of the main window.
	You can change an entry by selecting it and clicking on `Edit`. This popup will be displayed.
	This allows you to change the entry how you like. Click on `Update` to make the change.
	The updated phone book.