Archive for July, 2009
o2 and Twitter Team-Up
Jul 13th
o2 UK have teamed up with Twitter so that come August 1st, every o2 customer will be able to turn on text notifications in Twitter to receive replies and direct messages absolutely free. Text updates to Twitter will be part of your normal text message bundle or the cost of a normal text. You can read more on this new partnership, here.
That’s great news. I don’t think I will be taking advantage of it as I receive @reply and DM notification to my iPhone through Tweetie’s Prowl/Growl integration currently and have also purchased Boxcar – Twitter Push Notifications over the weekend to give that a go.
Will you be enabling the free notifications come August 1st?
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Loading ...Your iPhone On Your Mac
Jul 9th
Some of you may remember my plea last year for a Mac app that would show a notification on screen when you’d missed a call to your iPhone while docked. Here’s a refresher.
Wouldn’t it be great…if there was a Mac app out there which would show a notification on your computer screen when you’d missed a call to your iPhone while it’s docked?
I was just thinking this today when having to leave my iPhone docked after it completely ran out of juice during the night. I haven’t been at the computer much today but have occasionally popped up to have a look at the iPhone screen to see whether I’d missed any calls. How convenient would it be to come up and see a Growl-style notification message on your Mac (that stays there until you close it) letting you know.
I would pay good money for that.
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Now there is an answer – BluePhoneElite 2 which is now iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS compatible. Here’s a table of what is supported…
It’s a shame that SMS Messages aren’t supported, but that’s down to a limitation by Apple and not the software developers. A review of BluePhoneElite 2 can be found at Smoking Apples. You can have a 2 week trial with the software then it’s $24.95 to buy.
So, iPhone users, is this something you’ll be using? I haven’t installed the software yet but wanted to pass on the exciting news for those who have been waiting for an app that does that!
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Jul 7th
How many times have you docked your iPhone and cursed iPhoto for popping up and getting in the way? For me it’s one of the most annoying actions as 99.9 percent of the time I head straight to that little red circle in the top left corner of the window to close it right back down so I can get to the app I want: iTunes.
Now there is a way to silence iPhoto when you plug in your iPhone, with a neat (and free) little system preferences pane called Cameras. You can manage what happens when you connect your Digital Camera(s), iPhone, Digital Media Writer and any photo device.
Upon installing Cameras you plug in one of your devices to get started and the app will ask you what want to do. As you can see from my image above, I have asked it to Open iPhoto for my Digital Camera but to Do Nothing for my iPhone.
Now all we need is a clever little plugin to stop iPhoto going into slideshow mode when we press play on our Apple Remote which was intended for a song….
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Jul 6th
Since iPhone OS 3.0 was released to the masses, there have been a number of applications trickling through that take advantage of the push notifications feature. However, very few of the apps have been of interest to me so far. What I’d really like to see is my favourite Twitter client, Tweetie, give me notifications when I receive @ replies or DM’s. I’m sure that will be a feature to come, but for now there is a very attractive alternative for receiving those notices if you have an iPhone (or iPod touch) running OS 3.0, a Mac and Growl.
Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac can be sent to your iPhone via push. So, as soon as a Growl notification pops up on your Mac, Prowl will forward it to your iPhone or iPod touch. Prowl is highly configurable so you can decide which messages you want to be delivered. So maybe you want to be notified of @ replies through your twitter client, when your RSS feed reader has new items or when you are mentioned in a Group Chat in Adium. As long as your favourite application supports Growl, Prowl will support it right back.
Once you have downloaded and installed the Growl plugin on your Mac you can dive straight into the settings under ‘Display Options’ where you can pop in your Prowl username (register here) and choose the display notification settings. The installation instructions are pretty straightforward and can be found here. You can also set it to only send to Prowl when your computer is idle for X amount of time. Mine is currently set to 30 minutes.
Following the installation and set up on your Mac, download the Prowl iPhone app (iTunes link) for £1.79. You can configure the app in Settings to give you badges, alerts and sounds, under the Notification menu. Full instructions on how to configure the iPhone app can be found here, along with a list of FAQ’s.
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