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WWDC Alerts will help make sure you get into Moscone

Two Mac developers have created an alerts service, which you can sign up for free right now, that will let you know the very moment that tickets go on sale for this year's WWDC in San Francisco. Just put in your cell phone number, send back one co...

Shake Things Up By Making Your Own Custom Vibration Alerts in iOS 5 [iOS Tips]

vibleaderIf you find yourself in a quiet environment like a meeting or at the doctor’s office you’ll usually silence the ringer on your iPhone. The iPhone will then vibrate when you get incoming calls. Although that sounds great, the iPhone will vibrate the same...

Shake Things Up By Making Your Own Custom Vibration Alerts in iOS 5 [iOS Tips]

vibleaderIf you find yourself in a quiet environment like a meeting or at the doctor’s office you’ll usually silence the ringer on your iPhone. The iPhone will then vibrate when you get incoming calls. Although that sounds great the only problem is that the...

You Have Your iPhone 4S: Now Put a Ringtone on It

While you might not be able to replace Siri’s voice with GLaDOS (yet), you do have control over how your iPhone notifies you of incoming calls and messages. New to iOS 5, the iTunes Store includes a special tones store where you can purchase new tones starting at $0.99 for alerts, and $1.29 for popular...

iPhone 4 Now Doubles as a Portable Rave-Party Machine with LED Flash Alerts [iOS 5]

flashLEDalertOur heads are spinning with all the new little features that are packed into iOS 5. Our heads also might be spinning from the new “LED Flash for Alerts” feature found under the Accessibility settings which we just enabled. While it currently only works...

Witness Remotely Locks Your Mac, Detects Motion, Sends You Mugshots

Developed by Orbicule, the creators of computer-tracking utility Undercover, Witness is a new application that’s aimed at remotely locking your Mac, and detecting motion in front of your computer’s camera. Let’s face it: every time we’re away from our Macs, we think about what could ever happen if someone broke into our house or office...

iOS 101: Take Control of Notifications

The notification system in iOS is useful, but it can get a little overwhelming sometimes. Luckily, there is a way to disable notifications on a per-app basis, so that you can retain notifications for useful things like to-do reminders while cutting down on less-useful ones.

Dear Apple: It’s (past) time to let us customize our alert tones

Picture this: you're hanging out at a friend's house, and the familiar "doodle-dee!" of the iPhone's Tri-tone alert sound goes off. But four people simultaneously start reaching for their iPhones, because they're all using that sound for SMS/MMS alerts...

Due 1.2 Alerts You It’s The Best Reminder App for iPhone

Back in September I reviewed Due, an interesting new app to quickly create reminders and set up timers on your iPhone. The first version of the app featured a cool UI and a good set of functionalities, allowing you to easily switch between the reminder and timer window. Most of all, the best thing about...

NotifyMe v2 brings some ‘Awesome’ with iOS 4’s Arrival

Ever since the App Store was launched, there hasn’t been a shortage of Todo apps. And with the release of iPhone OS 3.0 and all the APIs it brought along, all the developers started churning out Todo apps like they were high on Redbull. Over the past few months, I’ve come across an abundance of...

Prowl: Get Any Growl Notifications Via Push On Your iPhone

Remember when you had to click on an application to make it active, and hit refresh in order to find out if anything new had happened? It’s been a long while now, since most desktop programs can run in the background and notify you when something requires your attention. The iPhone approximates that same functionality...