Micks Distractions

I came across this cool lit­tle iPhone app in my recent adven­tures into the world of dis­tract­ed­ness. A growl client for the iPhone.

What Prowl does is send “push” events to your iPhone from vir­tu­ally any­thing.
Install the app, reg­is­ter on the Prowl web­site, gen­er­ate an API key, and you’re home and hosed for some good hacking.

This means that any appli­ca­tion that wants to push a noti­fi­ca­tion to your iPhone con­tacts the Prowl servers, which then sends the noti­fi­ca­tion on to your iPhone. So far it’s reli­able enough, but even they say not to trust it for crit­i­cal or emer­gency applications.

There is an API, and it is fairly com­plete, sup­port­ing all your lan­guage pref­er­ences, (Java, perl, PHP, etc, etc — sorry no COBOL).

Of course, there’s even a plu­gin for Word­Press, (which I have to say is so much eas­ier than Joomla). It will send push alerts for new posts, com­ments, and other things.

Word­Press post alert

Looks like some­one has posted another blog entry.

View­ing the noti­fi­ca­tion brings you here:

Alerts

Alerts can be adjusted, the nice fea­ture is being able to silence them for a given time.

And adjust what sounds are played and when, although the default sounds are too quiet I find.

Redi­rects

Redi­rects allow a spec­i­fied appli­ca­tion to start when a par­tic­u­lar event comes in. Trou­ble is that there’s no way of select­ing any­thing else but the given set of appli­ca­tions. Maybe in the next release.

– Posted from my iPhone

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