Nate True's Weblog http://cre.ations.net/$base_path Thoughts and musings from Nate True, casual inventor."; en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:04:37 -0600 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:04:37 -0600 custom http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[SMSNotify - keeps your iPhone vibrating when there's an unread SMS]]> I hate it when someone SMSes me, and I miss the vibration, and I go for hours without checking my phone. Thus I created SMSNotify, a script that vibrates your iPhone every 15 seconds when you have an unread SMS.

The script is quite simple - it just queries the SMS database for unread SMSes, and if there are any, it calls the 'vibrator' utility that vibrates the phone for a short time.

It's written in shell script so if you want it to do other things it's easy to modify.

Now it's not perfect - when your phone is asleep it won't be every 15 seconds but will wait until the phone silently wakes up (to check your e-mail generally) before it can vibrate again. I'm working on that.

Download it at http://devices.natetrue.com/iphone/smsnotify.zip or just wait for it to appear in Installer.app - my good friend Shaun Erickson is packaging it up. ...

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]]> I hate it when someone SMSes me, and I miss the vibration, and I go for hours without checking my phone. Thus I created SMSNotify, a script that vibrates your iPhone every 15 seconds when you have an unread SMS.

The script is quite simple - it just queries the SMS database for unread SMSes, and if there are any, it calls the 'vibrator' utility that vibrates the phone for a short time.

It's written in shell script so if you want it to do other things it's easy to modify.

Now it's not perfect - when your phone is asleep it won't be every 15 seconds but will wait until the phone silently wakes up (to check your e-mail generally) before it can vibrate again. I'm working on that.

Download it at http://devices.natetrue.com/iphone/smsnotify.zip or just wait for it to appear in Installer.app - my good friend Shaun Erickson is packaging it up. ...

Read the rest of this post

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