Tag Archives: push notification
Mailtones for iPhone updated: works on 2nd gen iPod Touch, longer alarm tone added [iPhone...
Here’s a quick one: Mailtones ($2.99), the email push notification with customizable rigtones (review here), now works with the 2nd Gen iPod Touch. There’s also a new longer alarm sound that was created specifically for urgent emails. Be careful with this new tone, though: it’s the kind of thing that’s …
Facebook for iPhone updated to 3.1.1: Contacts Sync, Push Notifications [Impressions]
The Facebook 3.1 update (followed by the 3.1.1 bug fix version, released last night) brings some big new features to the table in the form of contact syncing and push notifications. The app asks you upon launch if you’d like set up the push notifications, and you can find more …
FestiveTones – MailTones email alerts for the Holiday season
Holiday apps are a funny thing. It’s not as if they have an expiration date, but it’s not all that likely that we’ll be using the Santa and Snow-themed apps come December 2010. We looked at Mailtones for the site a little while ago, and FestiveTones is the $1.99 holiday …
App Update: Mailtones gains quiet hours and a few more tones[?]
Sleeping is awesome. I’m actually in dire need of some, but I signed an oath in ketchup that I’d try to get cool and fresh news out to our readers, so here I am and here it is. If you’re the kind of person who loves email alerts, but also …
Review: PushGmail for iPhone
Well, what do you know. The very same day that a cool new push notification app for Gmail comes out, Google themselves roll out their own Push solution through Google Sync. Which one to choose?! I’ve been playing with the app for around three days now and have been quite …
PushGmail for iPhone is live and only $0.99!
Got an interesting e-mail yesterday about another push service for Gmail. This one only costs $0.99 and is not subscription-based. Pay once and enjoy the benefits (and possible battery hit) of push notifications for your Gmail account. That got me interested, but it was this feature that really sealed the …
iPhone Push Notifications Coming in 2.2.1?
It has been rumored that the iPhone push notification service, that the great Mr. Jobs promised for September just gone, is going to make an introduction in the 2.2.1 firmware, despite the fact that the 2.2.1 firmware beta hasn’t even been seeded to developers yet. RussianiPhone.ru claims they have seen …
Apple Seeds iPhone Firmware 2.1 Beta 4
Apple has seeded iPhone 2.1 Beta 4 firmware to developers. This seed addresses bug fixes. Curiously Apple has removed the push notification service in Beta 4. Apple’s answer as to why the they pulled the feature is ”for further development.” Push notification was announced to developers at WWDC this year, developers of IM clients for …