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How to turn off email notifications on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, and Blackberry by Jared Dec 19

As the holidays approach, give yourself a gift: spend some time with loved ones, and away from email. AwayFind will notify you if something matters right now, so turn off your email checking and notifications. Here’s how…

Note: these instructions have been taken from our Guide to Not Checking Email, which is available for download on the Getting Started screen for all AwayFind users.

iPhone

Select the Settings application
Select Sounds
Change New Email to Off or None

You can also click here to download AwayFind for iPhone

Android

Select the Gmail application
Press the Menu button and then select Settings
Uncheck Email notifications and any other options that may be available in your version of Android, such as Notify Once

You can also click here to download AwayFind for Android

Windows Phone 7

Select the Settings application
Select ringtones+sounds
Change New email to None

Blackberry

Select Profiles
Select the active profile and click Edit
Select Messages
Change the volume to mute and turn off the LED repeat notification if you’d like
Save when exiting the profile

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iPhone Update: Lightning Fast Alert Creation by Jared Sep 14

Our iOS app already makes it easy to get notifications for urgent emails. And with today’s updates, it’s now a lot easier to tell us when to notify you. It used to take some time to browse through your contacts to enter their information…but now it’s nearly instant (as quick as addressing an email).

On both the Important People and Waiting for NOW screens we’ve added a sophisticated autocomplete tool that makes it lightning fast to add contacts (these contacts will trigger AwayFind alerts).

When I’m waiting for an email from one of my rockstar engineers like Sergio Kaszczyszyn I don’t have to remember how he spells his name or what his email address is. Now it takes about 5 seconds to tell AwayFind when you need to know about something–It’s like productivity just got productive!

It’s simple when you look at it…but that’s the point : ). And it’s a joy to use:

Grab the latest version on the iOS AppStore now!

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Now Android Users Can Close Their Inbox – AwayFind comes to Android Market! by Jared Jul 27

This probably won’t be of interest to all 125 million Android users out there, but for the ones that really want relief from their inboxes, we’re here to help.

Today we announce AwayFind for Android. If you’re an existing AwayFind user, you’ll now be able to route urgent emails to your Android phone or tablet. And, unlike with our (very popular) SMS alerts, you can read the whole message and even reply without a visit to the distracting world of your inbox.

We’ve made the setup super easy:

1. Setup a Gmail or Google Apps account in less than a minute (or setup Exchange or IMAP accounts on the web).
2. Then just decide which people should trigger an alert.
3. Done.

You will be alerted with an Android push notification when urgent messages from these senders arrive, so you can stay away from your inbox the rest of the time. You can still use the other AwayFind tools you love, such as our Gmail plugin and calendar integration–both of which take just a minute or two to setup on the web.

Grab AwayFind free from the Android Market!

And for those who haven’t discovered our great iPhone app, that’s available here.

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