So, knowing Google, they won't make their own desktop client for messages for web. Most people may be fine just pinning the tab in their browser or using the page shortcut method. I, however, am not, because I feel these things are lacking in some pretty basic features that can only come from a native application, such as minimizing to the system tray, start on boot, and reply to the message from the notification. Basically, the hope is to basically just embed their page into an Electron app (or something) and then use that app as the middleman. It would intercept the notifications, generate it's own native notification with the ability to reply to the message from within the notification on supported systems (Windows 10 can do this, don't know about OS X though).
Anybody up for the challenge?
Something maybe similar(ish) is https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
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Macrospecs, Inc. just announced the launch of FriendMobilizer, a Windows Mobile application that gives users full access to their Facebook account.
Supported feature includes Viewing friends’ info, writing on walls, looking at photo albums, changing status text, etc. FriendMobilizer run on the majority of Windows Mobile smartphones and Pocket PCs, it also allows you to get notifications sent straight to the home screen. You’ll be able to approve friend requests, view group/event invites, find out about new wall posts and messages, and much more.
Screenshot : http://www.1800pocketpc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/friendmobilizer_menu.jpg
Source : 1800pocketpc.com
Because I've always wanted pop-up ads on my phone!!
I tried it for about 5 minutes.
I received a 'new message notification' that turned out to be an advertisement to try some product, and I immediately removed the application. I understand the merits--as well as the downsides--of ad-based products, but getting advertisements as pop-up notifications on my mobile phone sucks!
thanks 4 letting us know about it mate
You know, I find that it works just as well to just change your email notification settings on facebook. This way, you'll get an email alert when people comment on photos (for example).
Windows Mobile gives you a popup notification of the new email, and then you accomplish exactly the same thing as FriendMobilizer promises, without adding an extra app
I'm wanting something like Prowl for android, so my growl notifications get pushed to my phone.
I was thinking something along the lines of:
Growl gets a notification > send SMS through email to the phone > APP intercepts SMS and pops up the Growl notification as an android notification in the pulldown
Possible?
Tasker (tasker.dinglisch(dot)net/index.html sorry can't post links yet) has the ability to intercept text message I believe. And I know you create many types of custom notifications based on the input. You could make a notification bar message and play a custom sound. Or even trigger application loads, and well, too many other things to list.
You'll have to play around with it a bit first to get the hang of it.
For the PC side you will have to find or write a program that will forward the growl notifications by text to your phone though.
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Tasker (tasker.dinglisch(dot)net/index.html sorry can't post links yet) has the ability to intercept text message I believe. And I know you create many types of custom notifications based on the input. You could make a notification bar message and play a custom sound. Or even trigger application loads, and well, too many other things to list.
You'll have to play around with it a bit first to get the hang of it.
For the PC side you will have to find or write a program that will forward the growl notifications by text to your phone though.
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oo i will definitely check it out, as for the PC side i can just configure growl to send email to the number, say sprint is (10digitphone)@messaging.sprint.com
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/index.html
There is a growl for android app in beta in the market now
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There is a growl for android app in beta in the market now
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Tried it, that requires the phone to be constantly active and to be on the same wifi network.
Tagging along.
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Tagging along.
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Best i've found is to just set growl send an sms to my phone through my email.
This is something that I will hopefully starting work on shortly, However I will most likely utilise C2DM on android 2.2 (Froyo) though I may add a fall back to use SMS's with the app intercepting them.
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I'm switching all my notification stuff to Growl for Windows and it's awesome. I was looking for a way to forward them to my Android phone and found this topic. With Froyo now supporting push, I think this is easier to make without the hassle of WiFi, Bluetooth and other non-solutions. Unfortunately, I don't know Java so I can't code this myself, but maybe some other dev is interested in this? I'd gladly donate.
Edit: Hehe, only read the first sentence of the post above me..
When tasker intercepts an SMS, can it delete the sms? That way you get a notification in the status bar without having to delete a text msg.
There is: http://nma.usk.bz . It's just like Prowl, but for the Android.
Right now there is pretty much just the Android client and the public API to send notifications.
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There is: . It's just like Prowl, but for the Android.
Right now there is pretty much just the Android client and the public API to send notifications.
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Hi uskr,
So does that work in the same way? You just fill out the details in Growl for Windows and it'll push through notifications to the phone?
If so that's exactly what I want Coming from an iPhone with Prowl to a Galaxy S2, and the Prowl notifications would be sorely missed.
Yes. We actually support both Growl for Windows and for MacOS. It's just like Prowl, but for the Android platform.
Enjoy!
Lovely, thanks Now the long wait for the SGS2 to get here
Check out Notifo, its currently in beta and not in the market. Google it "notifo for android"
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Notifo was great but it's now been abandoned
http://blog.notifo.com/notifo
Anyone else other than the pay-for "NotifyMyAndroid" that we can use?
Me and some friends mostly use twitters "direct message" function to send SMS-like short messages.
Now I had an idea if it's possible to write an app which allows you to write direct messages through a shortcut in the contacts app.
Just like I open the contact app, select the contact who should get my message, tap on "Send DM" (or something like this" and a little window opens in which I can write my message.
I don't know anything about writing apps myself so I just want to know if it's possible, of course if someone writes this app there have to be some other features, like notifications and display the characters count.
/push
I'm sorry for posting again without responses, but I think this idea is too good to be not noticed.
The good things about this app:
-messaging about data connection, no sms costs
-messaging to everyone who has twitter and follows you
-no need that your chat partner has got this app, cause it works trough all twitter clients
-no need to sign up for another service, which only one half of your friends use
-comfortable direct messaging through a nice UI
The bad:
-only 140 characters
-no pictures, files or anything like this due to twitter limitations
I hope now someone will notice this thread
I think it already exists and is available for free in the market. The name of the app is AndroChat.
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Oh, you're right and I thouht this would be a great new idea..
Androchat works, but the UI is not very comfortable, are there any alternatives?
Would it be possible to make a app that is used as a notification center (common notification platform) for other apps??
It could have a Live Tile with a number which is indicating the total number of missed notifications (all supported apps), and flipping through app specific notifications showing the app icon and the missed notification number of the specific app.
When you open the app there is a list of all notifications you could filter, search or swipe them away. Clicking them maybe could "deep link" you directly into the notifying app.
Does it have to be homebrew or could it be released into the marketplace??
Could it be achieved completely on the phone or would we need some kind of server for such a service??
Hope you understand me, my English isn't the best
No, it violates the WP7 sandboxing. You can't communicate between apps or into another apps isolated storage. It would be possible by calling native code but then it's stuck as homebrew only and that's a lot of effort for something only very few will ever use and every app would have to specifically support it.
Hi guys!
I was just wondering if their is a tweak/hack/app/way to set a timer for a SMS.
Like telling your phone to send a specific text to a specific person on a specific time.
Could anyone help me?
Thanks!
In theory, such an app could be written. The official SDK doesn't support automatically sending SMS, but the APIs exist and a homebrew app could use them. I don't think anybody has ever bothered to write such an app, though.
That's sad/
Anyway, thanks for clearing this one up.
I'd like that ability too. Unfortunately (using the official routes) Microsoft only make available to developers the ability to create a text message, and then launch the phone's sms application - leaving it for the user to press send. The code isn't able to do the sending so an app wouldn't be able to do it via the phone's own SMS at a scheduled time. You would also have the problem that if you set it to be sent more than two weeks in advance, and didn't go back into the app during that time, the scheduling 'agent' that runs in the background on the phone would expire after two weeks (so the sms would never be sent).
There are however some web sites that do it - e.g. http://ohdontforget.com/
You might be better using a web site anyway due to them being always on (whereas a phone might be off or out of signal at the scheduled time).
It would be possible, however, to write an app that uploads the text to an on-line service (such as the one mentioned as it has a developer API) so that a web server could reliably take care of the scheduled send - and then perhaps sending a push notification to the phone to confirm it has been sent.
Hey, I think here is one app for that, I didnt have time to look it totally through...
http://download.pandaapp.com/windows-phone-app/auto-the-sms-manager-1.1.0.0-id1894.html
Did any1 try the app?