Good news to all TxtBuff readers! Copying text messages from TxtBuff to mobile phone is now made easier with barcodes! All you need is a Symbian or Windows based mobile phone with camera and Quickmark software:

1. Go to Quickmark website and install the software on your mobile phone.
2. Run the program.
   
3. Go to TxtBuff and look for your favorite text message. Scroll down to (more…)

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So you’ve read them, those text messages that made you smile, laugh, or cry, messages that have touched you in one way or another. Whether you are a man or a woman, I’m sure you will relate to one of our text messages. Choose your favorites by rating them!

5 stars - A must-forward!
4 stars - Worth sharing
3 stars - Just nice to keep
2 stars - Nice, but not enough
1 star - I don’t get it

Only registered members are allowed to rate. Members need to sign in to start rating and can only vote once per text message. The text message with the highest rating will appear on the front page for everyone to see. A text message can also appear in a special place above the rest of the text messages in the category page it belongs, if it has the highest rating in its category.

So start rating for your favorite text mesages now! It’s a good way of telling others what text messages you think they shouldn’t miss!

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Some might be wondering how text messages on TxtBuff are published. During the first three months, I was only getting a few messages from the contributors and sometimes, I don’t even get any. So it was still easy to publish a text message right after receiving it. But after a few more months, the number of contributions has increased, so much, that I already find it hard to publish all of them at the same time. Sometimes, two or more senders send the same text message. Some senders send the same text message twice. Some even send advertisements. So I already felt the need to arrange and organize by eliminating duplicates, deleting advertisements and putting them into folders. (more…)

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Finally, TxtBuff SMS plugin is now available for download. It allows you to display the latest SMS quotes and text messages from TxtBuff on your website. You can choose to display only from a specific author, a category, or just the latest text messages in general. You can style them with CSS too!

Download the official TxtBuff SMS v1.0 from Wordpress plugins.

Instructions:

1. Extract all files from the ZIP file and then upload the whole folder to ‘/wp-content/plugins/’
2. Activate TxtBuff SMS plugin by going to the admin area of your WordPress blog and click on the “Plugins” menu. Click on “Activate” for the “TxtBuff SMS” plugin.
3. Visit the plugin’s options page (located at Options > TxtBuff) to set your preferences.
   1. Select SMS Quote Source. Choose from the following options: latest quotes in general, from a specific author, or from a specific category
   2. Number of quotes. Specify the number of text messages to appear in the plugin
   3. Maximum characters to display. Long text messages will be chopped off at the number you specify.
   4. Appearance. Customize font size, colors, etc by editing the CSS code.
4. If your theme is widget compatible, visit Presentation > Widgets and drag “TxtBuff SMS” widget to where you’d like it to display. If your theme is not widget compatible, edit your theme’s sidebar (see the WP Codex for help) and add <?php txtbuff(); ?> where you would like the output to be displayed.

Note: This plugin requires at least Wordpress 2.0, tested up to 2.3

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