{"id":20949,"date":"2010-06-04T10:29:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=20949"},"modified":"2010-06-04T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:35:17","slug":"boxcar-version-3-0-now-available-adds-universal-support-for-ipad-all-services-go-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/boxcar-version-3-0-now-available-adds-universal-support-for-ipad-all-services-go-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxcar Version 3.0 Now Available &#8211; Adds Universal Support for iPad, All Services Go FREE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not yet familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/boxcar.io\/\" target=\"_Blank\">Boxcar<\/a>, the app is a push notifications service designed to give you the ability to keep track of activities happening on your @Twitter and @Facebook accounts, even allowing you to setup options to alert you of new posts on your favourite sites and more recently Growl notifications on your Mac &#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ever since its introduction back in July of 09, the software has become highly popular reaching a staggering 150 million push notifications successfully delivered. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this morning, version 3.0 of the software went live on the store, which adds a few welcomed features. Firstly, all the in-app purchases are now absolutely <strong>FREE<\/strong>, although have been replaced by in-app advertising, which if you want to get rid of those will now cost you $4.99 to &#8220;upgrade&#8221; to pro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/boxcarstore.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Boxcar now universally supports iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, meaning you&#8217;ll now experience an iPad-specific interface, rather than having to run the app in pixel-double mode. Its pretty nice for the most part, but some aspects of the UI just feel like they&#8217;ve been up-scaled from the iPhone version.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Version 3.0 Change Log:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8211; Revamped Inbox.<br \/>\n&#8211; All services are now free.<br \/>\n&#8211; Universal Binary for iPad.<br \/>\n&#8211; Ability to delete notifications.<br \/>\n&#8211; Added 5 new sounds.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Thanks to everyone who sent this in!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not yet familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/boxcar.io\/\" target=\"_Blank\">Boxcar<\/a>, the app is a push notifications service designed to give you the ability to keep track of activities happening on your @Twitter and @Facebook accounts, even allowing you to setup options to alert you of new posts on your favourite sites and more recently Growl notifications on your Mac &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2028,16,17,2137],"tags":[78,3500,4,1377,848,512,2663],"class_list":["post-20949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-ipod","category-social-networking-app-store","tag-78","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-latest","tag-push-notifications","tag-release","tag-version"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20949"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20958,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949\/revisions\/20958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}