Tag: BOXCAR

Boxcar, the push notification application that has a great number of fans on iOS, has just made it to the Mac, though in beta form for now. Essentially, Boxcar allows you to get push notifications for many different services, and lets you organize those messages and deal with them in a less stressful way than, say, the notification system that Apple has built into iOS. About a couple of months ...

Boxcar is heading to the desktop courtesy of your browser. It's bringing the custom, real-time push notifications that brought it fame on iOS to the Web using WebSockets. Essentially what Boxcar will do now is pipe the notifications that you receive on your iOS device concurrently to its website for reading and clearing in the browser in real-time. They're using the same technique as Twitter does ...

Boxcar manages all the push notifications on your iPhone, letting you add sources like Twitter, Facebook, email and RSS feeds. It's an extremely useful app, and the latest version also comes at a useful price: FREE. That's right: Boxcar 3.0 has a completely revamped appearance, an iPad version, and some new alert sounds, and it's available at the lowest of low prices. Boxcar's new pricetag ...

There are a lot of great Twitter clients for the iPhone, but whether your favorite is Tweetie, Twitterrific, Birdfeed or something else, they're all missing a feature that I find really useful. I'm talking about push notifications, and even the top-shelf Twitter clients don't support them. Although that's likely to change when Twitter finds a workable push solution for developers, an iPhone app ...