Despite iPhone 3.0 's push notifications and previously mentioned Google Sync 's contacts and calendars syncing chops, push Gmail still hasn't come to the iPhone. But with the Prowl iPhone application, you can now push Gmail notifications—and then some—to your iPhone. What Prowl Does The $3 Prowl iPhone application [iTunes App Store Link] works in conjunction with Growl , the universal notification application for Macs, to push desktop notifications to your iPhone. (The current release of Growl for Windows doesn't yet work with Prowl, but the latest unreleased version supposedly already does—meaning Windows users should be able to do this once Growl for Windows updates.) How It Works Whenever an application sends a notification to Growl, Growl sends that notification to Prowl's servers, which in turn sends a push notification to your iPhone. So, for example, if you've got Growl set up to display new Gmail notifications (details below), Prowl can push those same notifications to your iPhone. The cool part about Prowl is that it doesn't just work with Gmail—it works with anything that Growl does. NOTE: What you'll get after following these instructions isn't true push email, but it's a pretty solid approximation. In fact, in order for it to work consistently, you'll need to have an always-on computer to push your Growl notifications to your iPhone
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