Notified finally available on Cydia

With the apparent death of GriP/iNotifyEx projects, Notified turned into the biggest hope to get a proper notification system on iOS. Now, after an AppStore style painfull 3 weeks period of submission process to Cydia Store, the free version has landed on Cydia!

And it's pretty much what to expect from a basic level service, with the bonus of having Activator support (I assigned it to swipe down from statusbar). SMS, Push Notifications, Calendar, Battery, Voicemail and Memory alerts are supported. You can also choose what app to trigger by clicking on each notification.

However, it's not enough for me, because it's lacking some important features:

1. Themes
2. Email and calls support, and maybe also available updates from Appstore.app
3. Popup blocker
4. Popup replacement
5. Swipe down to open, up to close, exactly like Android "drawer" notification pane.
6. Quickreply (at least) for sms

So, it's the pro version that I really want, cause it adresses most of those problems immediately, and also brings pluggin support, that according to the @notifiedapp team will permit popup blocking AND replacement, and, and this is HUGE, the team is currently working on a WebOS style pluggin (WebOS notifications are even better than Android's). That said, I hope they also add the drawer effect and quickreply I mentioned last.

More details at notifiedapp.com and @notifiedapp.

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Epic: Android now also running on the iPhone 3G (dualboot)

Dualbooting iPhone OS and Android

Dreams do happen :)

Forget inotifyex, Notified is coming!

Sad because inotifyex project is apparently going nowhere? There is good news now, the eyedevs team is coming soon with an alternative attempt to bring android style notifications to the iPhone, called Notified. Can´t wait!

isbsgriplog 0.0.1-5 released

Getting better and better, the sbsettings toggle that let´s you access GriP´s log almost in Android style now alows direct launch of push notifications apps by pressing the message on the log.

Join isbsgriplog with Lockinfo push notifications support, and the Double Height Statusbar theme for GriP, and we are really close to Android notifications. Untill inotifyex is out, that is.

More details at Trinitus blog. App can be downloaded from apt.ifonemodz.co.cc repo on Cydia.

isbsgriplog 0.0.1-2 prerelease

More info at http://www.trinitus.info/

Opera Mobile 10 coming to Android

And it looks awesome!

Use mQuickdo to acess GriP message log!

What would be better than using SBSettings to access GriP´s message log? Yep, to use one of the available mQuickdo gestures, android notification pane style.

That is precisely what Trinitus now acomplished. Granted, right now it needs some manual work, but Trinitus promised an easier installation method, soon.

Sony Ericsson is back

ARebirth indeed. Let´s just hope they don´t bring back bad old memories and blow this up by launching this late and without fine tunning the software.

Has many of you know, before getting into the iPhone scene, i was a huge SE fanboy, untill they destroyed UIQ and showed a complete lack of respect for their smartphone users by not providing justified support in terms of firmware updates. My great hope regarding the new SE Android phones, is that: 1 - the new management learn the lesson 2 - even if they act retarded, users can just root the phone and flash a Droid ROM, or any of the others.

The Rebirth...

...happens Tuesday.

iNotifyEx - how it will work

KennyTM is now constantly updating the iNotifyEx design notes page. See above the scheme he made about how it will work.

iNotifyEx - GriP replacement coming! Notification system for iPhone!

Just two days after i lamented the lack of development on GriP (Growl for iPhone), KennyTM made a quick edit to his project page, that refers to iNotifyEx, the new project that will replace GriP and make our dreams of a proper global notification system for iphone to come true.

Here are some details:

As a redesign, iNotifyEx shall have characteristics of following APIs:
* Growl-like notifications
* Android-like notifications
* Some GriP-specific addition
* Some iNotifyEx-specific addition

More information here. Notice the reference to android notifications (yay!).

One step closer to a proper notification system for iPhone OS

With the advent of push notification apps, it become pretty obvious that the iPhone OS notification system SUCKS. Comparing it with the way Android and WebOS elegantly handle notifications, make the iPhone look poor. I mean, obtrusive popups in the middle of the screen? Sounds? Badges?

That´s why GriP (Growl for iPhone) is easily one of my three must have jailbreak apps (the others being SBSettings and Backgrounder/Kirikae). Even on it´s current beta state, its so much better than the normal system.

It gives users much more control over the way information from SMS, email and push notifications is displayed, in a non-obtrusive way. When receiving push notifications, you are able to see all of the messages sent to you, and not just the last one.

The more recent Double Height Statusbar theme, seen above (made by the author of the SMS GriP extension, GauraVK92) , added another type of notification alert, that is similar to what can be seen on the latest versions of the iPhone Facebook app.

However, GriP also introduced a resource that if implemented correctly would bring it closer to the awesome Android notification pane, the Message Log. Problem is, this log is normally buried in Settings.app, something that made its usage a nightmare.

Well, despite the 2 month hiatus seen on project development (c´mon KennyTM, speak to the fans!), the community came to the rescue, namely tom.blum85, that figured a way to creat a SBSettings toggle to quickly access GriP´s message log!
I can tell you, after some days of usage, this is AWESOME. At any given moment, i can now have a clear image of all the SMS, Emails and various Push Notifications apps outputs received in a period. All without missing a single message, without having to flick through pages of apps to find badges, and without having to open every single app to find out what´s new.

Like i said, it´s unfortunate that a project with such huge potential has been apparently suspended by it´s developer. Surely people would give the necessary support, finantial or otherwise, if he asked for it. Also, the delay in releasing GriP officially on Cydia is a shame, because so many people are unaware of such a great jailbreak application. So i ask you, please RT and share this information. Spread the word :)

iPhone becomes iHero (II) - now with Stacks!

As a followup to my previous post regarding the awesome Sense UI inspired winterboard theme, i thought i should tell you guys i managed to incorporate the also awesome Stacks 3.0 (currently in alpha testing) into it.

To do it, i changed the icons inside Library/Mobilestack (stack_drawer_button_single.png
and stack_drawer_button.png). Now "+" opens the stack, "-" closes it, has seen above. Really cool.

iPhone becomes iHERO

Lately, HTC Hero´s Sense UI, has been generating alot of buzz.

If you want to get a taste of the Sense UI beautifull looks on your iPhone, there´s now a winterboard theme for that. Folow the instructions provided here.