Emilio Peláez

Here's to the crazy one. The misfit. The rebel. The trouble-maker. The round peg in the square hole. The one who saw things differently.

He was not fond of rules, and had no respect for the status quo.

You can quote him, disagree with him, glorify or vilify him. About the only thing you can't do is ignore him. Because he changed things. He pushed the human race forward.

While some might have seen him as a crazy one, he was a genius.

You probably know that iOS 5, released a few days ago, introduced Notification Center.

Some people, since it was announced, asked me if I was going to continue working on Notified, or improving Notification Center. 

The answer has always been no, I made Notified because it was a feature missing from the OS, now it's not.

I've moved on, I'm working on a few other projects, I just hope you enjoyed Notified as much as I did.

You can still use Notified if you want to, here's a list of available packages of Notified on Cydia:

Notified - The original free Notified, doesn't have the slide down list, works on iOS 3.0 - 4.X

Notified Legacy - The last release of Notified Pro (1.5.3), it's free and works on iOS 3.X

You probably know that on monday Apple announced a new notification system at WWDC.

As some of you pointed out, it looks a lot like Notified: pull-down drawer, notification bar, etc., some of you even said that Apple had ripped me off.

I don’t feel that way.

For starters, the drawer idea wasn’t that new, Android had it before Notified, and while I never used it personally, the concept was a big inspiration. (It did come as a surprise that they used the swipe down gesture, with the rumor of they hiring Peter Hajas, I thought they were going with the notification list above the multitasking drawer)

As for Notification Bar, I didn’t see anything like that before Notified, but it’s not a terrible innovating idea; instead of showing the notification at the middle of the screen, try to move it to somewhere less important.

So yeah, I would have loved if Apple had sent me an email saying “Hey, we love your notification system, come work with us”, but you can’t always get what you want.

Anyway, many of you were left wondering what was gonna happen with Notified. I don’t want it to end as a beta, so I’ll try to push a release as soon as I can, but I won’t work too hard on new features.

I also find it really cool that Apple made a system so similar to Notified, because it means we were doing it right.

Hello,

I know I announced this update like a week ago, but I had some problems releasing it. Today I did some work, I tested the update all day and it worked as expected.

While it's not a huge update, it's an interesting one, as it adds 5 things to Notification Bar:

Adds a settings page in the Settings.app

Adds a switch to enable/disable the notification bar.

Adds an option to auto dismiss the notification; this has 4 options: Off (it won't auto dismiss), On (it will always auto dismiss), Homescreen Only (it will auto dismiss only when the notification was shown while the device was unlocked), and Lockscreen Only (the oposite of Homescreen Only).

Adds an option to change the position of the bar; either at the bottom of the screen, or at the top (right under the statusbar).

The last thing is new gestures.

The close button was removed to make more room for the notification.

To dismiss the notification, press and hold the notification bar.

To launch the associated application, either tap on the icon, or double tap the notification bar.

No action is assigned to a single tap to prevent you from accidentally tapping the notification when it shows up.

This update is live on Cydia on the Notified Beta repo, I hope you like it and let me know what you think.

Here's a screenshot of the settings:

As some of you noticed, I uploaded an update a couple hours ago.

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