Text Messaging Database (I need your opinions on this)
Verfasst: Fr 17. Apr 2009, 02:04
Hi. I have been developing something for MyPhoneExplorer users, I wonder what you all will think of it. 
I have around 50K text messages stored on my computer. My phone has a small storage capacity (150 text messages), and I always store my text messages on the computer, in order to free up my message storage memory on the phone. So I ended up with about fifty thousand of them. But in my opinion, the MyPhoneExplorer Archive was TOO slow to filter them, whenever I wanted to find a specific text, or just see texts that I had sent before. So I decided to make something to get rid of that problem. I programmed a small website. Basically, I just go to MyPhoneExplorer, export the whole archive into an XML file, and then upload it to the website, and ALL the texts are stored in a much faster database (queries take 0.001 seconds on average). This has enabled me with a much better/more organized way of accessing my text messages.
Besides the obvious speed advantage when browsing the archive, it also allowed MyPhoneExplorer to move texts to the archive much faster (when I had the huge archive, it'd take quite a while to move the texts). Moreover, my texts are now stored on the website, meaning that whenever I format my computer or use MyPhoneExplorer on another computer, my messages are stored in a safe place that only I can access. There's no more need for backups.
What I wonder is, would there be any need, from the MyPhoneExplorer community, for this service to be publicly available? Would it be of any great use?
I have around 50K text messages stored on my computer. My phone has a small storage capacity (150 text messages), and I always store my text messages on the computer, in order to free up my message storage memory on the phone. So I ended up with about fifty thousand of them. But in my opinion, the MyPhoneExplorer Archive was TOO slow to filter them, whenever I wanted to find a specific text, or just see texts that I had sent before. So I decided to make something to get rid of that problem. I programmed a small website. Basically, I just go to MyPhoneExplorer, export the whole archive into an XML file, and then upload it to the website, and ALL the texts are stored in a much faster database (queries take 0.001 seconds on average). This has enabled me with a much better/more organized way of accessing my text messages.
Besides the obvious speed advantage when browsing the archive, it also allowed MyPhoneExplorer to move texts to the archive much faster (when I had the huge archive, it'd take quite a while to move the texts). Moreover, my texts are now stored on the website, meaning that whenever I format my computer or use MyPhoneExplorer on another computer, my messages are stored in a safe place that only I can access. There's no more need for backups.
What I wonder is, would there be any need, from the MyPhoneExplorer community, for this service to be publicly available? Would it be of any great use?