Apple looking to take Find My Friends to the next level with iOS 6
Apple debuted Find My Friends last fall during their iPhone 4S event. Similar to Google’s Latitude service, Find My Friends uses GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation to track the locations of its members....
View ArticleiOS 6 brings built-in support for Government Alerts
Still looking for new iOS 6 features? Then you’re in luck, because we’ve just come across one that you might not have seen yet: Government Alerts. That’s right, it looks like the latest iteration of...
View ArticleNotiPad: Growl like notifications on the iPad
NotiPad is an upcoming jailbreak tweak that promises to provide Growl like notifications on the iPad. The notifications that appear with NotiPad replace the standard banners present in iOS 5 and...
View ArticleEmblem brings OS X inspired notifications to the iPad
Today at WWJC, Joshua Tucker revealed a new tweak that he created in collaboration with fellow developer, Kyle Howells. The tweak — Emblem — is an iPad exclusive that brings OS X inspired...
View ArticleBadgerTweak: an upcoming tweak for quickly viewing notifications
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could tap an app badge and be given a synopsis of the app’s awaiting notifications? That’s the premise behind BadgerTweak, an upcoming endeavor that allows “…users to view...
View ArticleOS X Mavericks includes some major improvements to notifications
Good news Mac users. In addition to all of the cool stuff Apple has already outlined in Mac OS X Mavericks, the new software is also going to include a number of improvements to the way it handles...
View Article‘PostOffice’ forwards all iOS notifications to Google Glass
Adam Bell, the iOS developer behind jailbreak tweaks like Stride and the Facebook Chat Head enabling MessageBox, is back at it again. He just released PostOffice — a new jailbreak tweak that allows...
View ArticlePebble smartwatch gets email notifications courtesy of app update
Good news for Pebble owners this afternoon. The company just posted an update for the smartwatch’s companion iPhone app that adds support for incoming email push notifications, meaning you can get...
View ArticleSafari push notifications going live ahead of OS X Mavericks release
In a rare move, Apple last week issued a silent update to OS X Mavericks Gold Master as the company is supposed to share pricing and availability information about the software at today’s iPad event....
View ArticleYou can now get iDownloadBlog push notifications on your Mac
With the release of OS X Mavericks, Apple has introduced a way for readers to be alerted via push notification every time a new article is published on one of their favorite sites. Today, I am happy...
View ArticleUpcoming ‘PushNotify’ tweak will let you forward push notifications from iOS...
I’ve been testing PushNotify for a few weeks, and now I can finally talk about what it does. A lot of you have been asking me about this tweak, because you’ve seen its settings featured in my other...
View ArticleApple seen testing push notifications for resolved Maps issues
Apple is apparently testing a new notification system for Maps, according to a report from MacRumors. The site has posted screenshots showing a new option that some users are seeing to receive a push...
View ArticlepushNotify is available on Cydia: forward push notifications to your Mac
pushNotify, a tweak that lets you forward your iOS push notifications to your Mac, is now available on Cydia. Jeff took the tweak for a spin a couple days ago, which you can see in action in the video...
View ArticleNew ‘Notifyr’ app pushes your iPhone notifications to your Mac
A new iPhone app has surfaced in the App Store that offers a fairly unique feature: the ability to push notifications to your Mac. It’s called Notifyr, and it utilizes a companion OS X client and...
View ArticleNew in iOS 8: reply notifications for Mail threads
Apple really seems laser-focused on further removing communication hurdles and friction in iOS 8 by advancing Mail and Messages stock apps in ways more than one. For the most part, the changes in...
View ArticleNotifyr app goes free: receive iOS notifications on your Mac
Today seems to be the day for app discounts, as Apple is giving away Rise Alarm Clock, and now the developer of Notifyr, an app for receiving iPhone push notifications on your Mac, is giving his app...
View ArticleOneDrive gains Document Provider extension, Recycle Bin support, push alerts...
Microsoft’s iOS client for its cloud-storage service, OneDrive, has received a significant update Friday bringing out a Document Provider extension of its own. The Document Provider extension is one...
View ArticleNotifications for Reddit provides message alerts in real time
I’ve always wondered why popular Reddit clients such as Alien Blue and Narwhal don’t support push notifications for various alerts. Not being a heavy redditor myself, replies to my comments will often...
View ArticleHow to get notified when we post a new YouTube video
As a part of yesterday’s YouTube app update for iOS, it is now possible to receive a push notification whenever we post a new video on iDownloadBlog’s YouTube channel. Each week, we post several...
View ArticleSmartBanners lets you customize your iOS banner notifications
Your notification banners are an intimate part of your iOS experience that you use to interact with apps and people on a daily basis. With that being said, wouldn’t it be nice if you could customize...
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