Tag: NOTIFICATIONS

There's no official support for Gmail push notifications on the iPhone, but you can add them for 99 cents, thanks to an app called GPush. GPush only does one thing: it notifies you when you have new Gmail messages. The only setup required is entering your Gmail login and deciding which notifications you want. You can pick a combination of pop-ups, sounds, and a badge on the app icon. GPush ...

If you use a Mac, you might be familiar with Growl, a system-wide notification system that allows apps to notify you of events - new email, new IMs, downloads finishing - with a customizable pop-up. Now Growl has been (sort of) ported to the iPhone as a great new app called Prowl. Prowl collects Growl alerts from your Mac for reading on your iPhone, and even includes push support. Effectively, ...

When a desktop app does something that needs your attention, you know about it because of system-wide notifications. With web apps, on the other hand, it's easy to miss something that happens when your apps are open in another window or tab. Yip aims to solve that problem by offering a unified web app notification system in Firefox. Yips is a Firefox port of the notification APIs from Fluid and ...

There are already plenty of ways to send notifications out of Firefox into apps like Snarl and Growl, but what about the other way around? If you work, play, and live in your browser wouldn't it be nice if your notifications could appear there instead of needing to install a standalone notifier? The Notify addon for Jetpack does just that. With a short snippet of JQuery code, developers can ...

If you're signed up to get email when someone new follows you on Twitter, you're probably used to seeing just the tiniest bit of information about them. With only a person's name and Twitter URL, you're forced to click through and change focus from your email to Twitter if you want to know more. Twimailer uses a neat workaround to replace Twitter's new follower emails with its own better version. ...

If you're not a power-user of RSS feeds, or if you are, but RSS just isn't fast enough for you, notify.me might be just what you're looking for. Notify.me sends updates from any site with an RSS feed directly to your IM, SMS, or email. Facebook, Twitter and Craigslist are just a few of the popular use cases. To make notify.me even easier to use, there's a browser bookmarklet you can add, to ...

Without a doubt, WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms currently available for people who want to install and maintain their content management system on their own server. I mean, what's not to love? Free, powerful, and easy to use - it's the whole package. But for all of its positive attributes, WordPress certainly doesn't get everything right. Take, for example, the email ...

YourLi.st is a simple web service that sends you an e-mail reminder on the day and time you specify (with an option to have a pre-reminder). The site does not require registering with them, so you can have a reminder set up in seconds. Events can have a title and summary, and the reminder can be set to repeat. A bookmarklet is available to set up reminders even more quickly. When you create a ...