Right after Apple upgraded its iPhone OS to v.3.0 and introduced new Push Notification feature many companies and developers started to write new applications or update their existing apps to use this new cool feature. One of them was BNO News which sends out breaking news alerts in four different ways: 1- Twitter, 2- Email, 3- Friendfeed, 4- iPhone. First three services are free but the last one is not free. You have to pay for their application as well as a monthly subscription fee to receive alerts on your iPhone. I was thinking to find a way to receive these alerts for free and I find a tricky way that I want to share with you here. You have to follow these steps to enable BNO alerts on your iPhone without paying them a penny!

1. Download and install TextFree Lite on your iPhone. It’s free.
2. Create a TextFree account which gives you a unique @textfree.us email address to receive messages.
3. Create a new GMail account at http://mail.google.com/mail/signup
4. Go to BNO mail subscription page and subscribe using your new GMail address.
5. Login to your new GMail account and wait until BNO confirms your subscription then go to GMail Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP
   
   
    
   
   Now put your textfree.us email address in the text box labeled with “email address” (see above) and save your settings.
6. You’re done! Each time BNO sends an alert to your GMail address it is automatically forwarded to your textfree.us and therefore you receive a Push Notification alert on your iPhone!

Do you know why we used GMail account in the middle of our trick and didn’t use textfree.us address directly? BNO rejects subscription requests from all @textfree.us or similar services email addresses!

Hope you enjoy this trick ;)