Delighta is a useful service that lets you access a handful of Google services via SMS commands on your mobile, which is especially useful in a place with no mobile Internet access. Using Delighta you can create SMS groups, backup SMS messages to a Google spreadsheet, make/edit appointments in your Google calendar, enter data into a Google spreadsheet or use Google translator.
To start using Delighta, register on the website and send your Gmail user ID (ex: username@gmail.com) to the number +1-408-357-4815.
To get a sense of how to correctly access the Google services, just follow the detailed instructions on the website.
Features
- Access Google servcies via SMS commands on your mobile.
- Create SMS groups.
- Backup sms messages to your Google spreadsheet.
- Made/edit appointment in Google calendar.
- Translate text using Google translate.
- Free, register on the website to start using.
Check out Delighta @ www.delighta.com
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Hello, I was interested in trying this out, but the website asked me to sign in using my google username and password. Shouldn’t they use the authenticator so they don’t store my username and password? I think I’m going to change my Google password after trying this out.
Also when I texted the number my google email address, I received a Google Docs email from delightasms@gmail.com saying “I’ve shared delighta_dragonduder” with me. Does this mean that the spreadsheet they save all my texts in is “shared” with me? I have limited Google Docs knowledge (though I use it on occasion), but if the Google Spreadsheet is shared with me, does that mean that it’s also shared with delightasms@gmail.com and they can see what’s in the spreadsheet?
1 -Every time you send a SMS, Delighta will open your spreadsheet or
calendar and add the SMS to it. To do this, it needs to know your Gmail
user id and password. It cannot use the authenticator and ask for your
permission since you are not at the computer when you send the SMS from
your phone. Please note that they encrypt the password before storing it in their database.
2- if you text your Gmail user id (instead of signing in) Delighta will
create a spreadsheet and calendar under the user name delightsSMS@gmail.com
and share it with you. Since this is a shared spreadsheet, you don’t have
complete privacy.
Here is their suggestion:
Create a brand new Gmail user id, just for using Delighta. Then sign in at
wwww.delighta.com with this Gmail user id and password. That way you don’t
have to worry about someone accessing information in your primary account
if the new account is somehow compromised.
Okay, thank you very much for the info!