Boxcar Sends Free Push Notifications To Your iPhone

Boxcar is a free iPhone / iPad app that sends free push notification to your iPhone or iPad for services like Twitter, Facebook, email and RSS feeds.

Boxcar is a great way to be notified when someone sends you a tweet, retweets you, or sends you a direct message on Twitter.  You are on Twitter right?

Here is a demo of the app.  Click Here if you can not see the video below.

Setting up Boxcar with Twitter and Facebook is pretty straight forward.  You can even add more than one Twitter account.

To set up push notifications for your email, you will need to forward the email messages you want pushed to your phone to a unique Boxcar email address.  For Gmail, you will probably need to set up filters so you are only notified of the most important emails.  Rebliss covered how to setup filters in Gmail in a previous post.

Boxcar lets you receive notifications for mentions, retweets, and direct messages on Twitter.

Boxcar integrates with most twitter clients so you can pick which client will open when you view a new message.

One of best features about Boxcar is the Quite Time feature that lets you specify when you don’t want to be alerted to new messages.

Once you have the services setup, you will receive a push notification for each new message.

Boxcar is free but does have some advertisements.  You can get rid of the ads with a one time fee of $4.95.  Boxcar also has an API so you can integrate your website or service with Boxcar.

What service or app do you use to notify you of new Twitter messages?

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