With 3.0 the iPhone finally has a working Push notification system. The only problem with this is that is uses the standard notification popups that everything else uses. You get a Push notication, you get a popup. One popup. That’s it. Rather useless if you receive a ton of Push notifications. GRiP came along a few months ago and somehow I missed it, but read up on it a bit after I saw it mentioned somewhere and am very glad that I did. It’s basically like Growl on a Mac, hence the name, Growl for iPhone.

Growl

You can use GRiP for email, SMS, and Push notifications. An example of a push notification from Boxcar:

Or an email and a Boxcar notification:

You tap on the left side of the notification to close it. Or you tap it to expand it to show more information like so:

After it is expanded you can then tap it again to open the App that sent the notification:

GRiP is very customizable and is meant to be a platform for other developers to add their own use of these notifications. You can customize different priorities for different applications, change how long they stay on screen, whether they start expanded, and you can create or download themes for it. Very recommended if you find the stock notification system lacking and you want something quite a bit more powerful.

To get GRiP add this source to cydia: http://cydia.ipitg.net. Install the “GRiP – Growl for iPhoneOS” and “GRiP Really Impressive Pack”. More info available on the GRiP homepage at http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/GriP.

Any comments on your experience with GRiP?

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