1. In the ‘Tools’ menu, choose ‘Preferences...’.

2. Then go to the ‘Display’ tab.

3. Click on ‘Set Fonts and Colours...’

4. On the right you can click (or right click) on the font colour or background colour to select a new one.

JSMS was created a few years back by Finbarr Brady, a software tester and a fan of getting things done quicker. Finbarr created this simple Java application to send texts quickly from any p.c. The idea was borne from the frustration of having to log into the Meteor website, select ‘Webtext’, select a phone book contact each time to send an SMS text.

Only when he was asked by his work mates to “pass on” the app, did he see the need for publishing JSMS as a free download on his website. He then got the code and project hosted on SourceForge.net and licensed the source code under the GPL.

One of Finbarr’s mates Keith Flynn joined in shortly after and has contributed hugely to the project. Keith added native support for Vodafone & O2 connectivity without the need for third party servers and added many other features to enhance the program, including custom user preferences, an automatic update mechanism and native installers for each OS. To date, JSMS has been downloaded over 12,500 times!

You can contact the developers directly by emailing jsmsirl@gmail.com

The message you see is happening because the automatic update in JSMS has been broken. We host the project on sourceforge.net and they recently gave their website a much needed overhaul. Unfortunately they broke our update mechanism in the process, so you will need to download and install the latest version of JSMS manually from our download page. Don’t worry all of your contacts and preferences will be still there after you do the new installation. The new version fixes the automatic update issues so all future updates should come down automatically.

You can do this easily by going into the Phone Book and select the ‘Export’ button at the bottom left of the window. Type in any name for the file and save it somewhere like the Desktop for example. Copy this file onto your new computer. Then on the new computer, go into the Phone Book window and select ‘Import’. Select ‘JSMS Export File’ and click ‘Next’. Then choose the file you had copied to the new computer and click ‘Finish’. JSMS will then load all of your contacts. SWEEEET!

You should be able to fix this by just allowing the process ‘JSMS.exe’ through the firewall. This worked for one of our users using a Comodo firewall.

The first thing to do is to check the version of JSMS you are running. You'll find this at the top of the Help->About dialog. You need to be running the latest version which can be seen here.

If you are using the latest version and still having any problems, we can take a look into it if you enable the logging and send the logs onto us at jsmsirl@gmail.com.

To enable the logs, go to the directory you installed JSMS to, find the file "logging.properties.unused" and rename it to "logging.properties". Then restart JSMS and try to send a message to yourself. If it fails like before, look in the same directory and you'll find a file called JSMS.log. Send that onto us and it should tell us what's going on.

All you have to do is to start JSMS twice and log into each instance of JSMS with the details for each of the two different mobile accounts. If JSMS automatically logs you into the same account both times, then select the "Log Out/Change User..." option from the "File" menu to change the user for that instance of JSMS. Then you can happily use each instance at will.

Note that if you are using the autologin feature of JSMS, it will always automatically login to the last account that you logged into. If you want to get around this you can create two Windows shortcuts to launch JSMS, one for your account and one for your wife's. Then right click on each of the shortcuts, select "Properties", and then the "Shortcut tab" and modify the "Target" field to tell JSMS which account to log in to. What you need to do is to update the target to pass three params to JSMS:

your operator,

your phone number and

your password/pin. 

So the target of your shortcut would look like one of the following examples:

"C:\Program Files\JSMS\JSMS.exe" "Meteor.ie Webtext" 0851234567 1234

"C:\Program Files\JSMS\JSMS.exe" "Vodafone.ie Webtext" 0871234567 1234

"C:\Program Files\JSMS\JSMS.exe" "O2.ie Webtext" 0861234567 1234

where 08x1234567 is your phone number and 1234 is your password/PIN.

Note that we store your preferences separately for each login, so you might find it makes it easier to tell the two instances apart by changing the font and/or background colour in each instance. To do that, open the "Preferences..." dialog from the "Tools" menu, go to the "Display" tab, press the "Set fonts & Colours" button and then customize the look and feels of JSMS to your heart's content.

You may need to download JSMS again. For more information see this post.