As Jabber does not seem appropriate for a SMS-replacement (the clients just don’t to survive connection changes from wifi->3g, 3g->E, etc.) i’ve been looking for something different. E-Mail is nice, just the shortest polling-interval of 15minutes is not suited for realtime communication. So – theres Push Email (meaning the iPhone will hold a HTTP connection to some server open all the time and the server writes something to that stream as soon as a new mail arrives) for various services including Microsoft Exchange and GMail. How about you hosting a own server since you don’t want to give away all your data? No problem – either use one of the tons of commercial servers supporting Push or use Z-Push with your favorite IMAP and SMTP server.
AmiAmi.com RSS
Maybe some of you like figures (as in figmas, nendos, etc.) and know www.AmiAmi.com – which is a great shop. It just poses one problem – it offers no RSS feed that allows you to stay up to date to whether items get available, get into preorder or are restocked. So you may miss the … Read more