{"id":272,"date":"2006-06-08T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=272"},"modified":"2006-06-08T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T00:01:41","slug":"gr8vzw-ncuragz-txt-spk-w-msg-xl8r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Gr8&#8230;VZW ncuragz txt spk w\/ msg xl8r"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the guys at work wrote a LABVIEW module that will send someone a phone text message (via T-Mobile&#8217;s email-to-SMS gateway) if anything unusual happens with an unattended test rig in the lab before shutting down the test. That&#8217;s pretty cool (especially once I get together a list of valid SMS addresses and a heapin&#8217; pot o&#8217; h3rbal v1@gra&#8230; j\/k folks).  I got curious and checked whether Verizon offered a similar gateway, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtext.com\/customer_site\/jsp\/messaging_lo.jsp\">they do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>4 ppl hu wnt 2 ryt n ntyr nvl in 160 chrs, with the added benefit of looking like a really poor-quality encryption scheme, Verizon offers a &#8216;textspeak&#8217; translator with its email-to-SMS gateway.<\/p>\n<p>Type some text and click on the &#8220;Spk n&#8217; TXT&#8221; link, and an algorithm compresses (if that&#8217;s the right term) your message into txt junkie speak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brilliant!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PS. Based on my admittedly brief testing, this thing actually performs very few substitutions on the average text, and thus does not significantly reduce the length of the message. You&#8217;re still best doing it by hand&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the guys at work wrote a LABVIEW module that will send someone a phone text message (via T-Mobile&#8217;s email-to-SMS gateway) if anything unusual happens with an unattended test rig in the lab before shutting down the test. That&#8217;s pretty cool (especially once I get together a list of valid SMS addresses and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}