Boxcar 4.1 Update Adds Gowalla and more

The push notifications app, Boxcar, was updated again this week. The update adds push notifications from the following services:

• Location based social services Gowalla and Foursquare
• Social news website: Reddit with either public or accounts settings
• Specific twitter username. See if you can add @saudimac in Boxcar and receive notifications immediately on your device

Boxcar 4.1 also addresses the following issues/bugfixes:

• Dismiss the browser if we find ourselves redirecting to a URL that is outside of the application.
• Resolve missing back button if opening to a browser view sequentially.
• Character count positioning for iPad.
• Properly display error messages to users when services fail to save because of validation issues.
• Make sure ‘Open in Safari’ actually opens Safari.
• Consistent positioning of Instructions and Help button among services.
• Adjusted numberOfLines in show message view to prevent odd word-wrapping.
• No longer using a modal dialog for remote providers (Github).
• Accessibility enhancements.
• Slide to View and “Client not installed” fixes for providers and Growl.
• Twitter Shoutouts.
• Disabling ads now works correctly.
• Don’t display error messages in a UIAlertView, for UIWebViews.
• Instapaper crash (nil password).
• Facebook permissions.
• Refresh arrows were backwards.
• Quiet time label is refreshed properly after saving.

And finally the update adds the following features:

• Ability to re-order services on the grid.
• Ability to delete messages.
• Show the provider / service name in the messages index.
• Remove the total message count from the messages index.
• Add Twitter Follow provider. Instant notifications anytime someone tweets.
• Add ability to follow people back from within Boxcar.
• Link twitter list names when viewing a message.
• Replace plcrashreporter with Hoptoad for better/easier to deal with crash reporting.
• Prompt the user for an app store review after 5 days of usage.
• When logging out, actually log the user out and stop delivering messages to that device.
• Add text treatment to help identify the type of message.
• Rewrite replies.
• Load the users inbox (and clear any badges) in the background after redirecting the user to another application.

Boxcar is a free app but you can pay $4.99 with an in-app-purchase to disable ads. Boxcar is a universal app that runs on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

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