Archive for the ‘beta’ Category
Who needs a pen? A new txtFeeder Feature
Monday, October 19th, 2009I am proud to announce a new feature! txtFeeder Notes. Now, not only will you avoid data charges, but you can now stop carrying pens! Ever been somewhere and needed to jot something down but don’t have a pen? Now you can just send a text to txtFeeder, and it will save your note. You can view your notes online, or through a text message command read the note any time you need it.
You’ll also notice you can now reset your password from your account page, in case you need to.
Log into your account to try this new feature out! If you haven’t joined yet, now is the time!
Helping you avoid data charges for 1 month!
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009That’s right, we’ve been helping you avoid data charges for 1 month! Today is the 1 month anniversary of the txtFeeder Launch. New users are signing up every day, and giving some good feedback. Heres some things that have been happening here:
- Message Stats in your account
- Efficiency increases
- Feed previews
- Phone synchronization for better compatibility with a larger variety of phones
I’ve been getting some feature requests, some of them, seem like good ideas, some of them… well, lets just say not all of them have been useful. At this time, helping you avoid data charges, is txtFeeder’s #1 priority. So additional features may not come for a while… But here are a few notable suggestions:
- ‘I want to be able to send emails through text messages, and have them come from my email address’ – This raises a lot of privacy/security issues. While, I believe it would be a good feature, I am not sure, at this time, that it is something I will build into this.
- ‘Can I send txtFeeder a note, and have it save it for later retrieval? Like a phone number, or an address’ I like this idea, and one day, I may build this in.
- ‘I only get X number of texts per month, can txtFeeder stop sending me texts after I hit this number?’ Some type of alerting may be possible in the future. I may build a command that will allow you to retrieve your stats for the current calendar month.
- ‘Can txtFeeder send me a feed at a specific time of day everyday automatically?’ That feature is actually available from a number of other ’subscription’ services. The purpose of txtFeeder is to be ‘on demand’. So you only receive texts when you ask for them.
As always, report any problems you have, share txtFeeder with your friends, and enjoy!
New Feature: Account Usage Statistics
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009You’ll notice on the your account page, you have a new tab called ’stats’! View your monthly stats. I got some feedback from users who don’t have unlimited text messages, so to help them avoid going over their monthly limit, I’ve now included statistics. Using this service is meant to avoid data charges on your phone, and the best way I can do that is to provide you with as much information as I can. I still suggest getting unlimited texting, if you’re going to use this service regularly, as its easy to get a lot of texts without realizing it, but hopefully this will help anyone having trouble monitoring their usage.
This shows you the number of messages you have received from txtFeeder.
There may be some delay, but it should be pretty minimal.
This shows the number of text message you have sent txtFeeder.
Between these two graphs you should be able to easily monitor your text usage with this service, and in addition to just avoiding data charges, avoid any text limits you may have with your carrier. As always, read the FAQ if you have any questions, or report a problem if you experience any.