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25 Jul

Yahoo Messenger for iPhone Gets Push Notification

Posted on 2009 under AppStore, Free Apps, iPhone Apps | No Comment

(2 votes, average: 2.50 out of 5)

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Yahoo updated its instant messenger application to version 1.21 and can now push an instant message alert and notification to you when the Messenger application is closed, so long as you’re logged in. Yahoo Messenger [Free, App Store] will also list the number of missed messages you’ve accumulated in the badge overlaying the icon on your springboard.

New Features:
New message alerts ?(push notifications)
We’ve taken advantage of Apple’s 3.0 push notifications platform to enable new message notifications. Now, you will be notified when a new IM comes to your iPhone, even if the Yahoo! Messenger app is closed (or your phone is asleep).
Stay online for up to 2 weeks
The Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app will keep you signed in and visible to your Yahoo! Messenger friends for up to two weeks. When the app is closed on your phone, your status will show you as online but in an Idle state. Friends can IM you and when they do, you’ll receive a new message notification as described above.

[Image Screenshot: CNET]

13 Jul

Push Notification message indicators dont work too well

Posted on 2009 under Firmware Versions, Software Fixes | No Comment

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If you are a heavy Push user, you might have missed a few push messages. This is because Apple dint really plan for a situation when more than one push hits your iPhone. Usually the last push shows up and the previous push messages that came along with the last messages is lost. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler shares his experience as well “if you have a lot of push messages coming in, I’m finding that you either have to pull out your phone every couple minutes, or risk still missing notifications that you probably want to see.”

Notification message indicators are not built for heavy use. If you have multiple push messages coming in to you phone, only the latest one will be shown on the screen. And even when you unlock your phone, it’s hard to tell which push messages have come in. Though you can set a badge on app icons to let you know there is a message, if it was overridden by another message, you are forced to open the app to figure out what it was.

[via - TechCrunch]

8 Jul

Prowl App Can Push Gmail Mails To Your iPhone

Posted on 2009 under AppStore, Paid Apps, iPhone Apps | No Comment

(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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There is this cool app called Prowl in App Store that can push notify your gmails on to your iPhone. Pretty cool stuff. This $2.99 Prowl works along with Growl, a universal notification application for Macs, to push desktop notifications to your iPhone. But this works on your Mac only. The current version of Growl for Windows doesn’t yet work with Prowl.

Lifehacker shares this bit of info: Whenever an application sends a notification to Growl, Growl sends that notification to Prowl’s servers, which in turn sends a push notification to your iPhone. So, for example, if you’ve got Growl set up to display new Gmail notifications (details below), Prowl can push those same notifications to your iPhone. The cool part about Prowl is that it doesn’t just work with Gmail—it works with anything that Growl does.

Prowl – $2.99 [App Store]

Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone OS. Notifications from your computer are sent to your iPhone or iPod Touch over push, with a full range of customization.

• Push Notifications—When a Growl notification pops up on your computer, it’s sent to Prowl over push and displayed on your iPhone. • History—Up to 30 days of notifications are kept on the server. You can delete notifications that you don’t want to see any more, or remove all of your history.
• Customized notifications—Only events you want are sent to Prowl. Inside the Growl preferences, you can set what priority should be sent, or how long after your machine has been idle the events should begin sending.
• Send any message to your device—From the Prowl website, you can send any amount of text to your device: links and phone numbers are automatically linked, so you can easily navigate around without having to worry about typos.

23 Jun

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) For iPhone Brings Push Notification

Posted on 2009 under AppStore, Free Apps, MustHaveApp, Paid Apps, iPhone Apps | No Comment

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Awesome, you can now get all your IM messages even if your iPhone AIM is not active. Thanks to Push Notification, you can get instant AIM messages just like any other message ping on iPhone. And the best thing is that Push works with both the free [App Store link] and paid version [App Store link] of the app. The $2.99 paid version removes all advertising. TechCrunch has a detailed post on this AIM Push feature as well:

Instant messaging apps are perhaps the perfect use for Push Notification, which allows you to use such services without requiring that they be open at all time. In our test of the pre-release beta version of the AIM app with Push, the messages were sent almost instantaneously. In testing it out right now, it looks to be just as fast.

But Push doesn’t resolve the lack of iPhone background support for all apps. We sitll need background apps feature, Apple. Are you Listening???

1 Apr

iPhone 3.0 Beta 2 Released – Push Finally Makes It!!!

Posted on 2009 under Firmware Versions | No Comment

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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Apple released the beta 1 version of iPhone 3.0 just 2 weeks back. Just last evening iPhone 3.0 beta 2 was seeded by Apple. This releases is applicable to the developers who are registered in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. The biggest addition in this beta 2 released is PUSH service. Modmyi noted this feature:

The feature that Apple promised AGES ago has finally been implemented with iPhone 3.0 beta 2 allowing developers to use the APIs to begin developing push applications. As expected this beta also has been updated for better stability and performance.

I found another announcement under this thread – For people asking about how to install this on your iPhone refer to this thread:Want 3.0? Don’t Have an iPhone Developer Program Account? Devs are Selling Spots. Pretty cool, right.

[via - Modmyi]