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AIM and Beejive Instant Messaging iPhone Apps Updated with Push Notifications
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For those who are using push notifications.. I've heard from friends that if you use push notifications AND use the alarm clock on your iPhone, you will run into problems...
Supposedly if you have your phone set on vibrate and you get a push notification in the middle of the night and you don't clear the notification.. it will sit in front of your alarm basically and the alarm clock on the iPhone will not go off until you clear out the push notification that was ahead of it.
I personally DO use my iPhone as my alarm in the mornings, so to be safe, I've turned Push Notifications off until Apple addresses this issue.
Anyone else heard of this??
For those who are using push notifications.. I've heard from friends that if you use push notifications AND use the alarm clock on your iPhone, you will run into problems...
Supposedly if you have your phone set on vibrate and you get a push notification in the middle of the night and you don't clear the notification.. it will sit in front of your alarm basically and the alarm clock on the iPhone will not go off until you clear out the push notification that was ahead of it.
I personally DO use my iPhone as my alarm in the mornings, so to be safe, I've turned Push Notifications off until Apple addresses this issue.
Anyone else heard of this??
Beejive is awesome! But, with no data, it's very limiting for me 
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It would be soo cool if there was an app that would basically convert IM's to SMS's that you could receive.
.It would be soo cool if there was an app that would basically convert IM's to SMS's that you could receive.
The AIM free app is beyond glitchy. I don't know if the paid version is any better, but I went ahead and bought BeeJive for 10 bucks and it is DEFINITELY worth it. It runs much much much smoother than AIM. On AIM, it lags showing the message you just sent in the conversation, and takes forever to load each time you want to view a message. BeeJive is practically instant, and conversations are very smooth. You also don't have to hear the annoying default AIM sound as it uses the iChat sounds.
If you were unsure about BeeJive, GO FOR IT. Especially at 9.99.
If you were unsure about BeeJive, GO FOR IT. Especially at 9.99.
You know, in the settings.app, you can set notifications settings per app to just display a badge and not play a sound or throw an alert. GriP is redundant, unless push doesn't work on jailbroken devices.
I've done this and I'm still getting messages on both the desktop and the iPhone...
kind of disappointing.
why terrible?
Are you sure it deserves a "terrible" or do you need to sign off on your phone before you log on to you desktop app? otherwise the phone app is working like it's supposed to.
Are you sure it deserves a "terrible" or do you need to sign off on your phone before you log on to you desktop app? otherwise the phone app is working like it's supposed to.
Found an interesting little bug in push notification:
Unix special characters aren't parsed out. That means you can create a new line in a push message by typing \n. So if someone sends you \n\n\n\n\n\n\n, it'll be a large blank popup. These are parsed out of the app's message window, so the message shows up as \n\n\n\n\n...etc there.
Similarly, if your message contains a quotation mark (") or slash (\), you won't get the message. To get around this, you have to replace quotation marks with \" and slashes with \\.
So, if I'm sent the messages: (Slash1\) and (Slash2\\), I'll only get a push notification for (Slash2\\). However, when I open the app again, I'll see Slash1\ and Slash2\\.
Unix special characters aren't parsed out. That means you can create a new line in a push message by typing \n. So if someone sends you \n\n\n\n\n\n\n, it'll be a large blank popup. These are parsed out of the app's message window, so the message shows up as \n\n\n\n\n...etc there.
Similarly, if your message contains a quotation mark (") or slash (\), you won't get the message. To get around this, you have to replace quotation marks with \" and slashes with \\.
So, if I'm sent the messages: (Slash1\) and (Slash2\\), I'll only get a push notification for (Slash2\\). However, when I open the app again, I'll see Slash1\ and Slash2\\.
I've already noticed a big problem today...while sleeping AP News pushed me a strory, but someone texted me and wiped away the notification. Can Apple split the lock screen between notifications? Like the top for texting pop ups and the bottom for pushed content? Swiping your finger over the pop up would also display other messages or pushed information.
I'm using AIM but for some reason it's not noticing some recent changes I made to my buddy list, so I'm missing an entire group of people. Any ideas on how to get it to refresh properly?
f...then it was that!!!! monday i was late to work because the alarm did not go off! that is so retarded
Again...in this forum you will find a developer that talked said he submited a twitter push app. And im+ will support push for twitter. So, you´re wrong
Push Notification
IM+ has push notification through EMAIL! F that! BeeJive is $9.99, and if im reading correctly works through SMS! AIM i will keep checking on as last night it was still showing the old version. On the whole Im very disappointed by push, I thought the applications were going to notify my themselves, not take advantage of mobile me to provide the push.
Sorely disappointed with Push
-iPimpjuice
IM+ has push notification through EMAIL! F that! BeeJive is $9.99, and if im reading correctly works through SMS! AIM i will keep checking on as last night it was still showing the old version. On the whole Im very disappointed by push, I thought the applications were going to notify my themselves, not take advantage of mobile me to provide the push.
Sorely disappointed with Push
-iPimpjuice
No offense, but you don't have any idea what you're talking about. It's not a twitter issue. Twitter traffic increases no more than it would if you ran a Twitter client in the background on your phone - they still have limits to their API calls. All the push to the phone and pull from twitter would be handled by the twitter client server (tweetdeck, tweetie, etc.).
Stop spreading misinformation.
Like I said, I tried it myself exactly the way you described it and it works. The alarm still goes off.
The applications notify apple and apple pushes a notification on your iphone, has nothing to do with email or SMS!
I'm willing to bet that their push implementation for Twitter involves some sort of credential caching on one of their servers somewhere. Caveat emptor.
... Exept that TweetDeck, Tweetie, and all of the popular Twitter applications connect directly to the Twitter servers, not to some intermediate "application" server.
Agreed.
IM+ is getting proper iphone push updating soon as apple approve it, beejive's update last night added it. albeit it's a little flaky right now, the email and sms refer to their attempted solutions for 2.0, not 3.0.