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Apple Developers, Engage Your Users with Notifications

An update is available for those who read the News and Announcements section for Apple developers. Cupertino is encouraging all those who make a living in the App Store to delight their customers by adding local and push notification support in their software. “Engaging Users with Local and Push Notifications,...

8 February 2012
13:11 GMT

Growl for Mac OS X Gets Notification History Feature

The free Growl application used by tens of thousands of Mac users out there, Growl, has received a major update that adds a cool new feature allowing users to log their notifications, should they miss them while away from their computer.Described as the ultimate notification system for the Mac, Growl is “the ea...

4 October 2011
07:41 GMT

Check Weather Condition From Your Desktop

 Staying in touch with the weather forecast is very important if you plan on going on a vacation or even spend a day outdoors. Although you can find weather information on many websites, there are some tools which deliver the forecast straight to your desktop, and one of them is Meteorologist.Meteorologist is a ...

22 September 2011
01:49 GMT

News International Notifies Sun Readers About Data Breach

News International has begun notifying The Sun customers that their personal information might have been exposed during a cyber attack against the company's network two weeks ago.On July 19, the notorious hacker group LulzSec hijacked the The Sun website and redirected visitors to a fake article about News Inter...

2 August 2011
13:21 GMT

Dropbox Authentication Bug Was Actively Exploited

Dropbox has notified around one hundred users that their accounts were accessed by an unauthorized individual who exploited an authentication flaw. Dropbox announced earlier this week that a bug was accidentally introduced by the company's developers during a code update and allowed users to access other people&...

25 June 2011
06:04 GMT

Growl 1.2 Drops Tiger Support - Requires OS X 10.5

Growl, the global notification system for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 1.2 (Final) after a few beta releases supporting both OS X Tiger and Leopard. However, the final release of Growl 1.2 only supports Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and later (Snow Leopard), and adds a slew of enhancements, tweaks and fixes. Some ...

29 September 2009
04:15 GMT

Download Growl 1.2 Beta 4

The development team behind the powerful Growl notification system for Mac OS X has announced an update delivering fixes and improvements. The developers also confirm ongoing work on Growl 1.2 for 10.6 Snow Leopard. Growl is best known for its ability to display notifications (although it can also be used in other w...

22 September 2009
10:58 GMT

iPhone Developers, Start Testing Push Notifications

Apple has sent out an email to registered iPhone developers inviting them to start testing live push notifications, using the iPhone OS 3.0 beta and iPhone SDK 3.0. In the same email, Apple also encourages developers to join the Apple Developer Forums and report any issues they uncover using the Apple Bug Reporter to...

10 April 2009
04:33 GMT

Growl 1.1.3 Fixes GrowlMail Feature

Growl used to sport a feature called GrowlMail, which notified Mac users of incoming e-mails via Apple's own Mail application. With the release of Mac OS X 10.5.2, Apple disabled this feature. But, since it was such a useful feature, the Growl Development Team decided to rewrite the app and put GrowlMail back in...

9 June 2008
06:24 GMT

Rapid Reminder Pro

Time is really beginning to take control of our lives, and one of the logical consequences is that you have to do more things in less time.I started looking for a program that would help me keep track of all my appointments, remind me of all the upcoming meetings and all the events that I always seem to forget. I st...

30 April 2008
16:55 GMT

Put Your Reminders on Music

Technology is taking over our lives. This is a fact. And one of the logical consequences is that you get to do more things in less time. But we are all human beings, with flaws that we still cannot overcome. In other words, we cannot keep up with the technological progress in terms of actually doing all the things we...

30 April 2008
02:15 GMT

Colorful Text Boxes for Your Desktop

No matter if you are a forgetful fellow or if you are the most reliable person in the world, you are probably in the habit of writing down notes related to all sorts of stuff. Nonetheless, most of these papers will get lost by the end of the day or, in the best of cases, by the end of the week, so your effort will ha...

29 February 2008
13:38 GMT

Google SMS - A Dream Come True

If you ever wanted to control your favorite web solutions straight from your mobile devices, now's your chance to do this with the latest function implemented into Google Calendar. First of all, you're able to add a new event using a simple SMS sent to "GVENT" (48368) in which you must specify the time and ...

10 July 2007
02:30 GMT

YouTube Turns Into A Paranoiac Service

YouTube is scared. This is probably a better title than the one above because it describes the numerous copyright alerts displayed by the online video sharing service better. YouTube was often affected by an impressive number of copyright lawsuits that sent the parent company Google to the judge periodically. The tit...

4 June 2007
15:11 GMT

After Norton Antivirus, Kaspersky Harms Your Windows Too!

One of the most famous antivirus solutions on the Internet, Kaspersky Antivirus, was recently involved in a false alarm that scared the Chinese users. The security application flagged rsaupd.exe as Trojan.Win32.Inject.av although the executable file is used by Rising Antispyware to update its definitions. According t...

23 May 2007
13:46 GMT

Fake Emails Signed by Google

Google's Webmaster Central reported that several German webmasters received numerous fake penalty email notifications, informing them that their pages were relegated on lower positions and excluded from the Google index. The company's officials announced that all these messages are fake emails, although the...

11 May 2007
03:55 GMT

How to Use Google's Free SMS Feature!

Google Calendar is now presented as the best way to track you daily activities, a Google employee sustaining the product was recently improved with better notification. Although the SMS feature was quite old, Aarati Parmar Martino, Software Engineer, Google Calendar team, presented it as a new update available for al...

4 May 2007
13:51 GMT

How to Remove Google's Malware Notification

Google is a company that is continuously looking to improve the security of its search technology because it provides instant access to a huge amount of information. That's why Google introduced some time ago two malware notifications able to announce the users that a certain site might contain malicious files. ...

14 March 2007
10:49 GMT


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