iOS (Jailbroken): One of the quirks of the iPhone is that apps can access your personal information, including your contacts, without you knowing about it. If this bothers you, ContactPrivacy is a tweak that sends an alert when apps start digging through your address book. More »
The Notification Center feature of iOS 5 is a powerful tool to keep track of everything happening in your life, but it’s not obvious how to use it to its full extent. We’ll guide you through the basics of getting started with Notification centre and show you how to make it more useful with a few tweaks. More »
iOS 5: There are plenty of great jailbreak hacks to boost Notification Center’s capabilities, but not much available for those who haven’t jailbroken their iPhones. Launch Center bridges that gap by using a clever workaround to add handy app and settings shortcuts to your notification drawer. More »
Android: You’ve silenced your phone because you’re in a meeting but don’t want to miss an important call. ViBe creates contact-specific vibrations for calls and SMS — so you don’t have to bother with pulling out your phone anymore to see who’s calling. More »
When signing up for popular services like Twitter and YouTube, you may have allowed the default email notifications or selected some options and never went back to change them. If now you’re getting more updates and notifications than you’d like, Notification Control can help you clean them all up quickly. More »
Keeping up with important email, text messages, app updates and other notifications and alerts can be tough — especially when you’re bombarded with notifications from many different places. Here’s how to consolidate all your notifications into one unified, customisable system so you can stay on top of what’s important and ignore what isn’t. More »
Keeping up with important email, text messages, app updates and other notifications and alerts can be tough — especially when you’re bombarded with notifications from many different places. Here’s how to consolidate all your notifications into one unified, customisable system so you can stay on top of what’s important and ignore what isn’t. More »
Chrome: If you have a bunch of Gmail accounts you might grow sick of switching between them using the native switch account feature. Google Mail Multi-Account Checker is a Chrome extension that notifies you and switches between new emails in up to nine accounts. More »
iOS still doesn’t have quick access to apps like certain Android launchers, but GigaOm notes that you can use the Notification Center to quickly access certain apps. Here’s how. More »
OS X Lion: If you’re having trouble with Growl 1.2 on Lion, but don’t want to upgrade with the new features, Growl Fork is a free version based on the last open source code. More »
