Google Wave Notifier 1.9 Released

Version 1.9 of Google Wave Notifier is now available. Unfortunately I didn't get around to adding Google Apps support, because it's turning out to be more complicated than expected, but I'm still hoping to have it done soon. The new features in v1.9 are:

• Changed source code over to Mercurial from SVN :)
• Added ability to customise the URL used to open Wave to support options like "minimized:nav,minimized:contact".
• Reduced minimum poll frequency to 1 minute.
• Added code to check for the presence of a network before checking for new waves in the background.

Fore more info, visit the Google Wave Notifier website or go direct to the Google Code project page for the download.

The source code for Google Wave Notifier is available (using Mercurial), so if you're got an idea for some new features, I'm open to acceptable patches!

For further updates on Google Wave Notifier, you can follow @WaveNotifier on Twitter!

Open Sourcing Google Wave Notifier

Yesterday I finally got around to do something I've been planning on doing for a number of weeks. I uploaded Google Wave Notifier to Google Code. From today, Google Wave Notifier is Open Source!

In hindsight, I should have done this much sooner. The app is now very stable and contains all the features that I planned to implement (and more!). I'm still getting lots of feature requests, and I really wish I could implement them all. However, in reality, I just don't have time. By sharing the code with the world, all of these features need not go unimplemented!

I still intend to work through bugs and some feature requests myself, though it's unlikely to be at the rate of previous releases. With help from the community, hopefully we'll still see regular releases and new functionality.

For more info, or to download the source, please visit the Google Wave Notifier page on Google Code.

Google Wave Notifier Now in 15 Languages!

When I started writing Google Wave Notifier last month, it was really only for my own use. I wouldn't use Google Wave if I had no way of knowing when I had messages (and keeping a browser open is not an acceptable solution!) so I hacked something together to login to Wave and parse the JavaScript objects.

I decided others might benefit from the app, so I cleaned it up a little, gave it an icon and published it on the web. I had no idea that it would get close to 10,000 downloads in little over a month! Nor did I expect so many people to send in translations!

So here we are 6 weeks down the line, and the app has been translated into 15 different languages!

• English
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

So I'd like to say thanks to everyone that's helped; using, translating and finding bugs in the app. What was a small script written for personal use has turned into something quite useful!

For more information or to download, see the Google Wave Notifier website!

Google Wave Notifier now in Spanish, Russian, Swedish

With the help of some users, yesterday I added support for Spanish, Russian and Swedish languages to Google Wave Notifier. All parts of the interface are translated and I'll keep adding languages if people are prepared to help with the translations :)

If you'd like to help translate into your native language, please visit the translation page.

Google Wave Notifier Update

Apologies if this is all I seem to be blogging about lately, but it's the only interesting thing I've been doing!

I've just pushed out a small update to my Google Wave Notifier application (v0.6). You can read about it here.

New features include the ability to play the Windows "New Mail" sound when you get new messages, the ability to change the interval it polls for new messages and some general tidying up and bug fixes!

Google Wave Notifier Update - Automatic Update Checking

I wasn't planning on pushing out an update to my Google Wave Notifier application so soon, but I realised that without automatic update notification, people will just get stuck on the old version and never update.

So, I've pushed out v0.4 which will notify you when an update to the app is available. Other than that it just has some minor tweaks (such as a busy icon while it's checking).

If you find it useful, let your friends on Wave know about it!

Click here for the Google Wave Notifier website.

Google Wave Notifier v0.3 Public Release

Edit: Google Wave Notifier has been released now. You can find the latest posts here.

After some thorough testing, I've decided to publicly release the Google Wave Notifier I've been working on recently. Thanks to everyone that helped test it over the last few days.

Because Blogger doesn't support attachments, I've created a download page on Google Sites.

As always, please post your suggestions or bugs to the bug tracker. I hope you might find this useful!

Click here for the Google Wave Notifier Download Page

Wanted: Beta Testers for Google Wave Notifier Application

Edit: Google Wave Notifier has been released now. You can find the latest posts here.

Those of you lucky enough to have a Google Wave account have probably noticed there's no official app to notify you of new waves. Google Talk doesn't do it, GMail Notifier doesn't do it, and there's no official Google Wave Notifier.

Yesterday I put together a quick app that will check for new messages in waves and light up a system tray icon (along with showing a notification balloon) when new messages are found. Before I release it into the wild, I'm trying to find a few people to help me test it. If you've got a Google Wave account and would be happy to try it, please send me a wave: danny.tuppeny @ googlewave.com.