Just came across this cool iPhone app called “Prowl” which pushes growl notifications on your mac to your iPhone. An awsome way of using push notifications introduced in iPhone OS 3.0. I knew this app was going to be useful that I finally made up my mind to jailbreak my device. Yes, I have an unlocked iPhone and somehow you need to hack it to activate push notifications.

A lot of mac apps I have come across uses growl and it has been an inevitable part of my mac setup. So, any growl notification you get on your mac gets routed to your iPhone. This means that you can set Tweetie on mac to growl when you have a mention or direct message, which is then routed to Prowl’s servers and onto your iPhone. Furthermore, you can configure to growl when you get new emails (GrowlMail), or when someone sends you a message on Adium – really useful so that you can know if someone messaged you on IM when you’re away from your mac.

Prowl lets you customize it by giving options like send to iPhone only if you are away from your mac for a certain amount of your time. Which is sensible, you really dont want to get push notified when you are in front of your mac. Prowl works with a Growl plugin and its iPhone app. You also need to register on their website to activate it.

Even tried this on EDGE and seems to work fine. But sometimes, there is a lag in pushing notifications which is not impressive. Also, after enabling push notifications, I found that the battery life has gradually decreased. But, I think this app is really worth it.