voicesms.rb lets you send SMS via Google Voice from Terminal

Have you ever wanted to send an SMS from the command line in Terminal/iTerm?

If you use Google Voice, you’re in luck, because the phenomenal Brett Terpstra has a shell script just for you.

The point of the script is to let me automate SMS messages from my system, so its primary invocation will be from other scripts. However, it will function just fine as a command line texting utility, in which case you’d probably want to alias the core functions in your .bash_profile. Set your default username and password in the script, and maybe a default destination number.

I now have the ability to tell myself when several automated processes finish, and whether or not they finished successfully.

"Android or Kindle Fire"

Comixology is reporting problems with in-app purchases on iOS devices:

Many of you may have had trouble buying comic on our iPhone or iPad apps this week due to some iTunes in-app purchasing problems. Apple has been made aware and is working on the problem.

No worries, though! In the meantime, you can buy those same books via the web, Android, or Kindle Fire, and they will show in your Purchases tab for Download on your iPhone and/or iPad.

I highlighted "Android, or Kindle Fire" because I wondered if Comixology had split them because they didn't expect people to realize that Kindle Fire is Android, or because Android is so fragmented that people have come to expect that apps which work on one device might not work on another.

Then I realized that neither answer was very good news for Android.

But, hey, marketshare!

The Church of the Perpetual Typo

There’s a church near where we live that I pass by far too often, and even more often, there is a typo on their sign.

Now, typos happen and we all know it. But these “typos” are on their sign and stay there for weeks.

But of all the ones I’ve ever seen, this is my favorite.