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.

It’s been a while since we’ve said anything public about Notify – so we figure it’s time to update you guys on the progress of 1.1.

The first thing you should know is there is going to be no “1.1″ version – we feel this is such a large upgrade from 1.0 that we’re going to be skipping right to 2.0.

Another thing you should know is why our estimate date was so far off. The original plan for 2.0 was to basically just add Google Apps support, and include no new features. But hey, this wouldn’t be very exciting, right? So instead we decided to completely rewrite the codebase again. We probably could’ve gotten away with sticking with some of the old code, but 2.0 is so different internally it made more sense to just start from scratch. Again.

What’s so different? Well, in 2.0 we’ve moved from reading the Atom feed of your inbox, to fetching the contents via IMAP.

Why? We’ve found some quirks with checking via Atom feeds, such as odd cookie problems since we were sharing cookies with Safari. Plus, the Atom feed wasn’t very flexible – it only showed us the 20 newest unread messages, only gave us a short summary of the message, etc. What does IMAP give us? Essentially, IMAP lets us act like a full blown mail client if we want to – pretty awesome eh?

Earlier today we pushed the release of Notify 1.0.4, which fixes a couple of issues – it’s recommended that all users download and install this update even if you aren’t experiencing any problems.

• Fixed a bug where not allowing Notify access to keychain would cause a crash. (Make sure you still give Notify access to the keychain, though!)
• Fixed a bug where in very rare cases the check mail timer would go “nuts” and cause hundreds of threads to be spawned.

We’re hoping that this will be the last 1.0.x release before 1.1 comes out. We’re still on track for 1.1 to come out in about a month – if this changes we will let you know.

Hello again! Feels like it was just yesterday when we were talking to you about Notify 1.0.2.. Oh wait, it was.

We’ll try not to do the whole “an update a day” thing in the future, but this addresses one of the major complaints that we can fix in 1.0.x.

1.0.3 obviously fixes non-alphanumeric characters in passwords. If you still run into problems, chances are you’re using an obscure character that we don’t check for.

We just pushed Notify 1.0.2 to all of our download locations, so run an in app “check for updates” to get the latest version!

All we’ve changed in this version is, we now display the name of the sender of the email, and we now only realign the main window when showing it, not hiding it. This fixes the weird “window bump” you’d see if you hid the window after a refresh where you went from having no new messages, to having messages, or vice versa.

Quick post/update.

We pushed out Notify 1.0.1 today with a single fix – A fix for accounts using non-alphanumeric passwords, passwords with a space in them.

If you’re still running 1.0.0, and are having passwords troubles, try updating to 1.0.1.