Tag Results For: notifications

NotiQuiet iOS Cydia

NotiQuiet Automatically Disables All Notifications While You’re Using A Particular App [Cydia]

There are Cydia tweaks that turn off iOS notifications via a single Notification Center toggle, like DoNotDisturb (review), and then there are those that disable the Notification Center as soon as you launch an app that runs in full screen mode. While those tweaks are certainly useful in their own right, they are not as [...] (more…)

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Screen junkE: Android Lock Screen App With A Built-In News Reader

Looking to bring some much-needed flair and functionality to your Android device’s lockscreen? Try Screen junkE – a multifunctional, slider-based custom Android lockscreen replacement app. Through a well-crafted & sleek UI, Screen junkE keeps you apprised of the total number of notifications for unattended text messages and email, and missed calls. In addition, it lets you [...] (more…)

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DoNotDisturb: Turn Off All iOS Alerts & Banners From Notification Center [Cydia]

A few days back, we covered a Windows Phone 7 Homebrew named Snotify. That app allowed users to silence the notifications on their WP7 device with a few toggle buttons. It doesn’t happen too often, but an iOS utility seems to have followed the Mango app’s example. The Cydia tweak is named DoNotDisturb, and is [...] (more…)

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Snotify: Turn Off SMS, Email & Toast Notifications On WP7 [Homebrew]

If Microsoft allows all the stuff from Bazaar into the Marketplace, Windows Phone 7 can become a true competitor of other smartphone platforms. For now, if you tell someone about your Mango phone, they are mostly likely to say something like “isn’t that the phone in which you can’t even copy/ paste properly?” Although WP7 [...] (more…)

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BlingBoard For Android: Widget For Call, Messaging, Facebook & Twitter Alerts/Updates

The option to check your latest email, messaging and social media notifications/feeds on your phone via homescreen widgets is one of the things the Android platform is revered for. Fresh to the Google Play Store, BlingBoard is a slick and beautifully designed Android homescreen widget that adds a bit of style to the aforementioned concept, [...] (more…)

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Get Instant Facebook Notifications On Any Website With MyStatusBar [Chrome]

Are you a Facebook addict and want to get every single notification as soon as it arrives while you browse other sites online? Well, to help you with that, we came across a handy extension for Chrome that provides you with a great way to stay constantly updated with Facebook notifications, posts and more. MyStatusBar [...] (more…)

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Curiosa: Keyword-Based Cydia Update Alerts In iOS Notification Center

The Cydia store houses a lot of useful tweaks and apps, which strive towards making jailbroken iOS devices better for general users. Despite the importance of the Cydia store, there are not many ways of customizing it, or making it better for your own usage. So, it is good to see the new tweak named [...] (more…)

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URL Notification: Send Links To Notification Bar For Easy Access [Android]

Most desktop and mobile web browsers these days offer the option of bookmarking URLs for the sake of accessing links to our favorite webpages with ease. However, if you do not fancy bookmarking URLs of webpages that you won’t be requiring to access more than once, then you must try URL Notification. The purpose of [...] (more…)

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View & Access “Notifications for Facebook” From The Menu Bar [Mac]

We’ve covered several Facebook clients for Mac in the past, like Facebox and Social Lite, both of which are feature rich and let you interact with your account. Both apps effectively let you keep up with what’s happening on Facebook without having to open a browser window. While these apps let you stay in touch [...] (more…)

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FastClear For iPhone: Dismissing iOS 5 Notifications Made Easy [Cydia]

As popular as the Notification Center in iOS 5 is among iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users, there are a few areas where it can certainly use a few improvements. One such Notification Center feature is the dismiss button for notification groups. While it might not present any problem to iPad users due to the [...] (more…)

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Tab Notifier: Get Desktop Notifications From Social Networks [Firefox]

Tab Notifier, a Firefox add-on, displays desktop notifications when the title of a tab changes, or when you receive instant messages on various social networking sites, even when the tab is not focused. Tab Notifier notifies you with new desktop messages, and clicking on these simply opens the tab that triggered the message. Also, you [...] (more…)

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Get Dial Pad In iOS Notification Center To Make Phone Calls [Cydia]

Before notification center came along in iOS 5, Android had a bit of an advantage in terms of usability, mainly due to the availability of widgets. However, now, using the Notification Center provided by iOS, users can do a lot through that part of the platform, especially if you have a jailbroken device. We have [...] (more…)

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ProtectYourVision Reduces Eye Strain While Computing [Web]

Have tired, sore and watery eyes after working for long hours on the computer? You may even develop a temporary condition known as Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) if you work on the computer without taking breaks.  ProtectYourVision, a web app, automatically alerts you and sends you desktop notifications when it’s time for you to take [...] (more…)

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SMSConfirmation: Get Push Notifications For SMS Delivery Report On iPhone [Cyda Tweak]

Don’t you just hate it when you send a text and forget all about it, only to return back to your iPhone’s Messaging app to find out that message sending failed due to a network error? Even if you don’t hate it, apparently the jailbreak community does, and that’s why SMSConfirmation has been made, which [...] (more…)

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Google+ For iPhone Updated With Typing Notifications, +1 For Photos & More

Contrary to what Facebook fans might believe, Google+ isn’t going anywhere. It’s here to stay and that’s why the folks over at Google are taking its updates pretty seriously. Just a few days ago the Google+ app for Android got revamped via a pretty big update (which we covered in detail) and now its iOS [...] (more…)