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 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?

So, the past 24 hours for us has been pretty insane. In the day or so since we released Notify 1.0 to the world, we’ve had over 3200 downloads. Thanks to everyone who retweeted, posted, linked to, or downloaded it! You’re awesome!

One thing we’ve also been overwhelmed with is requests for Google Apps support – We’ve gotten over 60 request emails for it so far. Clearly we wouldn’t leave all these people out to dry, so we’ve got some news for all of you wanting Google Apps support..

Google Apps support is coming in Notify 1.1.

The reason we can’t support this with a simple  1.0.1 update is, well, the current way we get the contents of your inbox is a little bit of a hack – we’re basically parsing the Atom inbox feed for each account you add. This has some limitations, such as it only shows the 20 newest messages, doesn’t show the full message text, etc. It also seems that the feed has some odd quirks in it, as we’ve had reports of users getting email from THE FUTURE! So…

We’re going to be moving to a completely IMAP based system for 1.1 and beyond. This means that we’ll be able to support not just Gmail and Google Apps, but any mail account that has IMAP access. We’re not sure if we’ll open it up to any generic IMAP account in 1.1, but if not it will certainly come in a future release. Moving to IMAP will also allow us to build in things like in-app replies, new message creation, etc. These extra things will probably come in a later release.

You’re probably wondering when 1.1 will be released – we’re really hoping we can get it out the door (at least to our beta testers) in about a month, so maybe the middle of September.. Can’t make any promises though, as  our developer will be starting his Computer Science course at university in just under three weeks. There should have enough extra time to continue working on Notify (and other things we’re working on), but you never know.. We’ll update you on the progress of 1.1 at that time.

Anyways, thanks for reading, and thanks for downloading!

Hello there! This is the new blog of Vibealicious, a software and graphic design company based in Ottawa, Canada. We currently work exclusively on the iPhone and Mac OS X platforms. Over the next few weeks we’ll be announcing our first big Mac OS X application, so stay tuned for news on that front.

In the mean time, you can head over to our Freebies page to download our first icon release! It’s a Twitter icon set to replace the dock icon for your current Twitter application. Here’s a quick preview. For a larger view, visit the freebies page.

Anyways… back on the application front. In a couple of weeks, we will be announcing the basics of a brand new Mac application. Something that’s never been done before, and something we feel power users everywhere will really enjoy and like to use. A small hint is that it’s called Walls. That’s all you get for now! If you’d like other information, feel free to follow us on twitter at @vibealicious – we’ll be posting information there more frequently.