Linux Desktop App
August 7, 2012 17 Comments
Zipwhip’s cloud texting lets you send & receive text messages from your computer using your main mobile number. Cloud texting. Pure and simple.
We’re happy to announce that our Linux desktop app is ready for download! This project was a full-on team effort complete with all the difficulties of a Linux build, so the launch comes with an especially big sigh of relief. As I mentioned in the video, Zipwhip is a Linux-based platform and there was no chance of us not supporting our beloved desktop app for the Linux OS. Saying that, we’re waiting with open arms for all your feedback and hope that together we can make this app even more powerful in the coming months. For now, please go to the Zipwhip homepage to download the app. Thanks for your support.
Pretty cool guys! I love Linux, and I love ZIpwhip. So this is a very nice mixture!
I read the entire text and couldn´t find what Zipwhip does. #FAIL
Hi Fernando, thanks for checking out our blog. Zipwhip is a text messaging company. We let you send and receive text messages across all of your connected devices using your main mobile number. We don’t reiterate what we do in every blog post because we have an “about” button at the top of our blog that describes our service and links to our homepage and social channels. Also, we have a lot of regular readers who know what we do and use the blog as a way to keep up with our latest releases and other company news. We are more than happy to answer questions individually though, so if you have a further comments/questions don’t hesitate to respond here or email us at info@zipwhip.com. Thanks again for your support.
Out of interest, can I have the ZipWhip desktop app installed on two different machines – say a Win7 machine and an Ubuntu machine – linked to the same Android device/account? If so, would a message read on one desktop be marked as read on both the device *and* the other desktop client?
You nailed it. Our app absolutely 100% allows for that. It’s part of our fundamental design to move your texting to the cloud. You could have our desktop app installed on 100 machines and when you mark it as read on one machine, the bubble automatically fades out on the other 99 computers in real-time. It’s actually quite amazing to watch.
Out of curiosity… are there any plans to introduce a feature set that would include the ability to remove the automatically inserted “Sent via Zipwhip” tag? Perhaps either through a premium offering, or just for the good old fashioned helluvit?
Matt, there are plans to add an option for removing the tag. This feature should be rolled out by August 15th.
Now that’s what I call customer service… Is this going to be a premium feature?
The feature will be free.
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Then support Linux by offering rpm and perhaps even tgz installs too, and not just UbuntuOS – because it actually looks like a usefull app and anything else would be a shame.
I’m curious now as to whether or not the Debian package will cleanly convert to RPM via Alien. Worth looking into.
Please check it out and let us know. We’d love to pass that information on to others looking for a solution, at least until our dev portal is done and another option is available.
We’re working on our dev portal right now. At that point we hope that outside developers would be interested in furthering the reach of the Linux app. Again, we’re supporters of Linux and we chose to support it because of our passion for the OS, not because we thought it was going to bring in millions of users. We hope it can be a collaborative effort in the end.
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I like what you guys are usually up too. Such clever work and coverage!
Keep up the amazing works guys I’ve included you guys to my blogroll.
Thanks!