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AIM and Beejive Instant Messaging iPhone Apps Updated with Push Notifications

Does anyone know if there's a way you can get push notifications from Beejive while in Away mode? I'd rather not have people thinking I'm available all the time, but I'd still like to receive the push notifications when I'm set to away so that I can view them later.
 
I believe it's still supposed to push even if you're away (unless you have another client that is not away). However, I'm having issues getting any push at all so I can't test it. Try it out, it should work.
Alex
 
morphineseason said:
Does anyone know if there's a way you can get push notifications from Beejive while in Away mode? I'd rather not have people thinking I'm available all the time, but I'd still like to receive the push notifications when I'm set to away so that I can view them later.
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Open up the preferences app (not the beejive app) and select the beejive icon near the bottom. Scroll down and there should be an option for how fast it switches to away mode (along with your away message). Choose the option immediately upon app exit. Then start and quit the app.
 
Yeah aim push isn't working at all for me.

Via edge or wifi.

I tried restarting the phone as well as reinstalling the app.

Push is set to on in the aim preferences.

Anyone else having this problem?
 
I am. I'm guessing their servers are swamped with people testing out Beejive. Oh well, go to sleep and check tomorrow.
 
What I want to know is why the AIM app doesn't use the names from my address book? I hate all the HappyCamper2313 I want Joe Smith.. etc.. The data is there why aren't they using it!?
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16)

No IM+ hasn't been updated.
At least not in the UK.
 
Beejive purchasing issues

hey is anyone else having issues trying to purchase apps in the last day or so? im getting a weird notice saying that my credit card doesnt match my billing zip code. i tried 3 times and it doesnt work, then when i check my bank account i was charged 3 times for the damn app= $30! what the hell?

i can download free apps fine so i dont know what the deal is with my billing info
 
I just spend the 10 bucks (ohhhhh headache) and bought this app. You definitely have to restart your iphone or else it keeps crashing. But after going through all that. I am just blown away by the app.

First it's stable. I love the interface and how it mimicks the messenging app. Push notification works. I have only tried it on Gmail chat but its so seemless. if i'm IMing someone on the computer and I log off. It sends it to my phone. I even set it up so that when i'm on my phone ONLY...it says MOBILE GCHAT.

I love the wallpapers you can set for the background and the fact that you can send pictures and voice over gchat. THATS AWESOME. Switching from one user to another is so seemless too.

Well worth the money. Lets just hope my battery lasts.
 
We have unlimited family text plan. For 35 bucks all five family
members have unlimited text. Yeah one price for all. So we just have our AIM account send messages directly to our mobile. Connected 24/7, no need to ping the service to reset your connection. Works great.
 
Peepo said:
Ya exactly. How he think Beejive do it? They aren't running the MSN/ICQ etc. servers. They gave their own that keeps you logged in.
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Because Twitter and IM are completely different services.

On IM you log in and, while you are logged in the MSN/ICQ/Whatever servers know about that logged in instance of the client and know where to deliver messages to.

Twitter does not send messages to the client, it stores the messages on a server and the client then requests a list of messages.

For a Twitter client to enable push they would need to permanently be downloading the twitter stream for every person who owned the program AND be parsing the entire Twitter stream for @ mentions. In essence, you would practically need the same server processing as Twitter itself has which you will not be able to do unless you have millions in VC funding.

Twinkle may be the exception since they do run their own servers and cross post to Twitter, but it will most likely only work between Twinkle users.

This is an issue that Twitter needs to address OR one of the clients needs to set up a monthly subscription plan that would enable push notifications for subscribers.
 
It really is too bad this took so long...and that we are still waiting on other pushes like gmail, facebook, twitter apps and all that jazz....
 
After 5 minutes or so, it Beejive says my aim service has been disconnected. Anyone have any idea what that is all about? I didn't think it was suppose to disconnect me
 
Chris Grande said:
What I want to know is why the AIM app doesn't use the names from my address book? I hate all the HappyCamper2313 I want Joe Smith.. etc.. The data is there why aren't they using it!?
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I agree, that has always bothered me about the official AIM client! Does anyone know if this is the same with Beejive and IM+?
 
alhasa said:
Why is push still not available in uk?!!!? :mad:

EDIT: ok the beejive app with push is now available in uk app store but I aunt gonna pay 6 quid for the privillage!
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This is the problem with the App Store "race to the bottom" and loads of apps selling for 59p: £5.99 is not a lot of money for an app such as Beejive - there has been a lot of work put into it and they'll have some pretty serious overheads too.


Beejive is great, but has a couple of bugs. The first one is pretty major IMO and that is that the app crashes if you try and associate a buddy with an address book contact. Worse than that - it seems to make the link before crashing and if you subsequently go into the buddy details, it crashes again: The only fix is a delete and re-install followed by avoiding any address book links.

The second one is possibly a "feature" of push notifications - I was testing it last night and occasionally the notifications were laggy by a couple of minutes. Because I was testing it I kept re-opening it. There was one occasion where I must have had it closed so a push notification was generated, but then opened up Beejive before the notification was received. I picked up the messages and carried on with my conversation. Shortly after I closed it down, I got a push notification for an old message I'd already replied to and the badge went to "1". This badge number then stayed at 1 until I received another notification (even going in to the app didn't clear it down)

Still mightily impressed with Beejive and Push Notifications, but feel there is still some work to do...
 
I think people are missing something here.

garethjs said:
Hmm. Tweetie just has to run their own server. It's not that expensive to setup a virtual server and since it's not a free app I see no issues with this. Then what happens is that twitter connects to the tweetie virtual server where your login details are stored. The virtual server connects to the apple push notification server which maintains an IP connection to your device.
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So, don't people have a problem with a third party holding onto their log-in details for their IM/Twitter/Facebook/Whatever. Beejive must already be doing this. Seem to me this is asking for trouble.

Do you really trust some of these "companies" not to start sending advertising from your accounts to your friends as another "revenue stream"? I'm not targeting BeeJive necessarily, but there's a log of App developers and they won't all be trustworthy.
 
sgibson said:
Because Twitter and IM are completely different services.

On IM you log in and, while you are logged in the MSN/ICQ/Whatever servers know about that logged in instance of the client and know where to deliver messages to.

Twitter does not send messages to the client, it stores the messages on a server and the client then requests a list of messages.

For a Twitter client to enable push they would need to permanently be downloading the twitter stream for every person who owned the program AND be parsing the entire Twitter stream for @ mentions. In essence, you would practically need the same server processing as Twitter itself has which you will not be able to do unless you have millions in VC funding.

Twinkle may be the exception since they do run their own servers and cross post to Twitter, but it will most likely only work between Twinkle users.

This is an issue that Twitter needs to address OR one of the clients needs to set up a monthly subscription plan that would enable push notifications for subscribers.
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Can you people who don't know what the hell you are going on about please stop spouting this rubbish on the forums as if you are talking fact.

IM+ has a Twitter client and will provide updates via push. It already does so via email at the moment!!
 
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