Having problems accessing your iCloud email today? You aren’t alone. A simple search for ‘iCloud’ on Twitter returns 1000s of results, showing folks started experiencing problems with the service early this morning.
Apple has updated its iCloud System Status page, confirming the outage. And according to the Cupertino company, around 12% of users were unable to access parts of the cloud-based platform for almost two hours… Read More
If you need yet another reason to jailbreak your iPhone, here it is: The popular Sparrow for iPhone email client will require a yearly subscription to enable push notifications for incoming messages. The sad news has been officially confirmed by developer Dom Leca and the Sparrow team.
Apple apparently told them they “are not willing to do any exception to the rule” concerning push support in Sparrow. Of course, those with a jailbroken iPhone can simply download Sparrow Push, a handy little tweak that adds this useful feature to the otherwise awesome email client at no additional cost.
Push notifications are coming in a future version of Sparrow for iPhone, which has just been updated with the following new features… Read More
Sparrow+ — the jailbreak tweak that allows you to set Sparrow as the iPhone’s default mail client, along with enabling push notifications — is now available on Cydia.
Sparrow is the 3rd party email client that has proved to be a popular alternative to the stock iOS Mail app, despite some glaring shortcomings.
You can download Sparrow+ for free from Cydia’s BigBoss repo starting today. You can also download the Sparrow iOS app for $2.99.
Once you give it a try, be sure to share your thoughts on the combo in the comments section.
If you remember my Sparrow review, I said it was a great app that was marred by a few missing features — namely: push notification capability, and the ability to make Sparrow the default Mail app.
In due time the folks at Sparrow will undoubtedly solve the push notification issue, and a few enterprising iOS jailbreak devs have already taken the liberty on that issue as well.
One feature that’s not so easy to implement is making Sparrow iOS’ default mail client. In fact, unless Apple does a virtual 180 on its current stance, this will never be a feature of Sparrow, or any other 3rd party Email app for that matter.
The only hope to implement such functionality rests with the jailbreak community. In fact, I reached out to iOS developer Majd Alfhaily yesterday, and he graciously accepted my request for such a feature in his upcoming jailbreak tweak coined: Sparrow+.
Want to see it in action? Have a look… Read More
It looks like the folks at Sparrow have started to enable push notifications for a handful of users. Perhaps this is a part of a larger rollout?
YouTube personality Duncan33303 has reported that push notifications are now working on his 1.1 installation of Sparrow, as have others.
According to a blog post on Sparrow’s website, the push update was supposed to be available in the next released of Sparrow, that being version 1.2. It appears, however, that the developers of the highly popular Mail app alternative may have included code in the 1.1 update to make push notifications work without the need for Apple’s approval… Read More
Sparrow, once only a third-party email client for the Mac, landed on iOS last month with a splash. The $2.99 software provides users with an excellent alternative to the native Mail option.
Well the app received an update today, bringing it to version 1.1. It includes a handful of new additions and features, and the developers say that more is on the way… Read More
Earlier we reported that a new jailbreak tweak was on its way to Cydia to enable push notifications in Sparrow. That tweak has finally touched down on Cydia’s BigBoss repo for free, and we’ve taken it for a thorough spin.
Do the push notifications make Sparrow a legitimate Mail app replacement, despite the flaws that we uncovered in our previous video review?
Check out our video walkthrough of Sparrow Push for the answer.
Sparrow for iPhone would surely file as a dream come true for mobile email addicts if it weren’t for its lack of push notifications for incoming email messages, as we noted in our video review. Enter Sparrow Push, a handy little Cydia tweak for jailbroken devices that adds this useful feature to the otherwise awesome email client.
Once installed, Sparrow Push will enable notifications for incoming email messages even when the program is in the background, allowing you to stay on top of important email messages as they hit the server… Read More
iOS’ stock email app is lacking in the user experience area, and the folks behind Sparrow have successfully capitalized on the default app’s shortcomings.
Unfortunately, while it succeeds with flying colors in a multitude of areas where the Mail app stumbles, it’s still not quite ready for primetime due to a few essential issues.
Check out our full video review inside… Read More
With everything going the route of iOS 5′s Notification Center, we’re seeing less and less tweaks that use Activator as a means for invoking, but FastStatus bucks that trend.
In fact, FastStatus’ ability to retain full compatibility with iOS 4 is one of the feathers in its cap.
This is a tweak that allows you to send email, text messages, and tweets from anywhere using a user assigned Activator action.
Check out our video walkthrough of FastStatus in action inside… Read More
