IPhone – Sending push notification to iPhone via AppleScript

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Is there any combination of iPhone and/or Mac apps that I can use to send a push notification to my iPhone?

For example, let's say I want to create a service (invoked via (Application Name) > Services) which sends the highlighted text on my Mac to my iPhone as a push notification message.

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I think a combination of Growl (OS X notifier) and Prowl (an iPhone app that forwards Push Notifcations from Growl) with your AppleScript interacting with Growl directly would be the way to go for this.

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Automator services can be run with the automator command line utility:

do shell script "automator ~/Library/Services/test.workflow -i input -d variable=value"

I couldn't get it to work with the service used by Circus Ponies NoteBook though.

MacOS – Mac OS X Server Mail services and Push Notifications to iOS devices

This problem was been resolved. The ASUS "Dark Knight" router which was providing the private LAN (NAT) and port forwarding to the Mac running OS X Server has a firmware bug. The bug manifest by DROPPING the ESTABLISHED TCP connection on port 2195 between the Mac running OS X Server and APNS, after two hours of quiescence. The router should not have dropped this connection, there was no firewall rule instructing it to do so. The lesson learned is to be much more selective and wise with regard to choosing routers (especially consumer off-the-shelf variety) for use with servers even for servers run in a small business context (like a Mac Mini Server).

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