Hey everyone, we’re getting really close to finishing up 2.1, and therefore we’ve opened up the beta application process. If you’re interested in participating, you can sign up here: http://vibealicious.com/notify/beta/

It’s been a while since we’ve updated you on the goings on with Notify, so here’s a quick status update of some of the stuff that’s going to be in 2.1.

Multiple Message Selections: One of the largest requests that we’ve gotten, and it will be in 2.1.

Mail.app / Mail Client Integration: Another large request. It will also be in 2.1. You’ll be able to either open messages via the right click context menu, or by specifying the double click option.

Passive Server Communication: 99% of people don’t care about this, so you can skip it. However, if you’re interested in this sort of thing – we’re currently in the process of reworking the backend to use a queue-style system. Things will now happen in the background, sort of like Mail.app.

UI Refinements and such: We’ve made some tweaks to the UI to make things a bit more logical.

Other features: Gotta keep some stuff secret.

There is currently no planned release window for 2.1. Since this release is a rather major under the hood change, we will be having a beta testing period – we’ll let you know more about that when we’re closer to release.

We pushed out Notify 2.0.7 earlier today, which contains several fixes and improvements. If you’d like to see everything included, go take a look at the release notes.

The most important changes are as follows.

• Notify now lets you set the name of the folder you’d like it to check. This is useful if your inbox is not called, “inbox”.
• Command + Enter can now be used to send messages.
• Esc. can now be used to close the new message window.
• Delete now works properly across all Gmail accounts. Before, a small number of accounts experienced messages getting archived instead of deleted.

Hey everyone, we’re putting Notify Pro on sale for $6 (40% off!) for December 26th only – a Boxing Day sale of sorts. Are we insane? Probably. Go check it out before we change our minds!

Update – The sale has now ended.

It’s that time folks. As of today, Notify 2.0 free and pro have been released, so go check them out!

So, what’s new?

Pretty much everything. We’ve completely rewritten Notify 2.0, and added a crapton (Yes, that is a valid unit of measure) of new features. Hence, why it is now 2.0, and not 1.1. What sort of stuff has been added? What has been changed?

Thank you everyone for your interest! Beta applications have now closed.

We will be selecting people at random from the group of you who applied – you should be hearing from us in about a week.