SMS Viewer

Getting messages from a connected mobile device and displaying in a presentation, for example, can only be done with the help of dedicated utilities. One of these tools, which is able to establish communications with mobiles through dedicated ports to receive and send data is SMS Viewer.

The program has a very plain interface, oriented towards functionality rather than good looks. The practical aspect is thus well represented inside the main window of this application, from where you can get to the main commands with juts one or two mouse clicks.

The first thing to do when deploying SMS Viewer is to set the communication port that will be used for retrieving messages. The easiest way to do so is pick the one that includes the name of your connected device.

A nice feature of this software solution is the presentation mode that enables you to display the sent and received messages onto a big screen, which can be erased, if necessary, with a single click. Related to this ability, there is an automatic filtering function that will prevent foul language from being exhibited.

For this particular purpose, there is a text file included in the package, called Obscene.txt, in which you can add all the words that when present inside a message will have their letters masked by symbols.

In order to customize the looks of SMS Viewer, you have at your disposal some font and color tweaking tools. More precisely, you will be able to pick the administrator's font type and size, as well as the text and background colors.

This application tries to offer users an interesting set of features, but, unfortunately, it is still troubled by many glitches as it crashes all of a sudden when simple operations are attempted.