Comments on: App Review: Notifications for iPhone

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By: Websyndicate

Websyndicate — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:48:50 +0000

@icebike I don't get spam too often everyonce in a great while. Yes it does happen omg what will I do. How I manage it well I just mark it as spam and hope for the best. I wish I could use exchange for my gmail but my job is mission critical IT enviornment so I need to know what's going on.

Like I said before it's pimarily for the little pop up window.

By: Taco

Taco — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:18:07 +0000

I use the iPhone's built in mail program to check 6 independent emails, two work, two private-personal, two website related, including a gmail account. Gmail uses push mail, just fine on the iPhone 3.0 OS without need for any other software.

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Price Change Alert Push Notifications — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:28:54 +0000

Pretty cool app to aggregate notifications.

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By: Matt Sawyers

Matt Sawyers — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:27:59 +0000

@Tom Actually according to the FTC, you only have to state if you got it for free. Since it does not state it, I'd assume most people would figure I didn't receive it for free. Just for clarification: yes I bought the app.

By: Jake Morris

Jake Morris — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:26:27 +0000

Looks great!

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By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:08:55 +0000

I believe you have to say whether you got the app for free or paid for it.

Sent from my Droid.

By: Icebike

Icebike — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:09:55 +0000

@Websyndicate:

Better than opening the email and finding out it’s spam or not so important.

You get spam in Gmail ??!!?! How do you manage that?

At 1:05 Pacific Standard Time BNO pushed the news about Billy Joel's daughter.

Every other news app: Crickets.

By: fassy

fassy — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:41:02 +0000

@icebike

I use and love Google Reader, but RSS is for more than just news; it works for any content channel the producer thinks is episodic. Podcasts are a good consumer-level example, and in fact using Prowl I threw together a quick webapp on Google App Engine to get free push notifications when my podcasts update. Would I want push notifications for blogs or something whose RSS/Atom feed is updated all the time? Of course not -- but RSS-backed push is a great combination for things that are infrequently but erratically updated.

As a specific example, ESPN releases their daily PTI show haphazardly. Sometimes it is available at 4:30 Pacific, sometimes at 6, sometimes later that night or even the next day. By monitoring their RSS and using Prowl, I get a push notification whenever the latest episode is ready to download, which is wonderful when I am out and about.

Yes, it would be nice if Apple did this for us and slapped a badge on the iTunes app, but, since they do not, RSS and Prowl (or Notifications) does the trick nicely.

By: Websyndicate

Websyndicate — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:15:49 +0000

@icebike. I personally use boxcar for gmail main reason is I get the pretty box with the description of the email. Better than opening the email and finding out it's spam or not so important.

Also I would use exchange for gmail but I have my work email on my iPhone so I only get one exchange accout at a til on the iPhone.

By: icebike

icebike — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:57:51 +0000

Why would you use it for Gmail when gmail has push?

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/push-gmail-for-iphone-and-windows.html

By: Danny Rodri

Danny Rodri — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:50:56 +0000

I love this app, incredibly fast. I use it everyday for Twitter and my gmail. Great App.

By: Icebike

Icebike — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:59:23 +0000

This app seems to be confusing the purpose of RSS. It was never intended as and seldom worth getting push notifications for the average blog posting, or routine news item.

Google Reader is just perfect for RSS if you ask me. Nobody has anything that comes close.

For the Hot News Flash sort of notifications, there is an App called BNO (Breaking News Online). You can set the categories you are interested in and receive push notifications. You can also set "don't bug me" time periods.

This thing is WAY faster than anything I've seen. The 4 police officers gunned down in Seattle appeared there a full 3 hours before there was any new in the mainstream press, or google news. The Russian Train bombing and Nightclub fire at least two hours before AP News app with its highly praised push notifications made any mention, and way sooner than any RSS feeds in my google reader from any news sources.

And in the area of Pointless Push notifications, IM+ just had an update that lets you get push notifications when a buddy comes on line on any of the services that support status reporting. Selectable sounds too.

By: fassy

fassy — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:39:48 +0000

@Wesley

Notifications plugin system does look like it might be better for out-of-the-box twitter/fb/rss support, but if you are mainly interested in custom notifications, you should take a look at Prowl instead, which does not have the most polished UI, but which is extremely flexible.

Not only does Prowl have an http API (which I use quite a lot myself for build scripts and similar), but it also integrates with nicely with Growl (or Growl for Windows), which means you can get notifications from any Growl-capable application on your computer.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:05:16 +0000

By the way a new version of this App was just rejected by Apple: http://twitter.com/appnotification/status/6277850764

So there must be something in the way to adress all interface problems.

And you have Safari on the iPhone, so having to go to the web to configure is bad but not the worst thing ever.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:01:56 +0000

You've missed a HUGE benefit: with this app, you can send any notifications to yourself, without having to make your own App or creating an infrastructure to communicate with the APNS.

For instance, I have a PHP script that automatically downloads some torrents for me, and I use Notifications to send myself a message so I can be aware of what is going on, and latency is very low (1 or 2 seconds mostly).

This app is a gateway between notifications and services. RSS is ONE of the ways to use it (and indeed THIS PARTICULAR FEATURE is not that good, and not that useful either).

It can also be used to notifty you about Twitter. For now you can search for terms and be notified when people post them, like @yourusername for replies (what I do), but in the near future the developer will better integrate the app with Twitter. And you receive the notification SECONDS after anyone tweets it, it's amazing.

This review is very poor, you missed the entire purpose of this app. =(

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:50:52 +0000

Ronnie J... Do you mean an rss notification widget or a push widget? I'm eagerly awaiting a push notification widget that works with LockInfo and will show the last several pushed notifications. GRiP works, but no sound on beejive IM pushes is a bit of a dealbreaker.

By: Fonewiz

Fonewiz — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:33:16 +0000

Ok so if it doesn't reliably send push notification then what's the point?