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We know many of you are addicted to breaking news. We’re offering a new way for you to get notifications of news events when you’re not on JSOnline.com.
Readers who use the OSX Mavericks and Yosemite operating systems can sign up for push notifications that will appear on your screen.
If you visit JSOnline on Apple’s Safari browser, you will see a prompt that asks whether you want the notifications. Choose “Allow” to start receiving them. They’ll appear in the top right corner of your screen for a few seconds whenever we send one. Click on the alert and the browser will take you to the story or just return to JSOnline to see it.
You don’t have to use Safari as your main browser to get the notifications. Once you’ve signed up, you’ll get the notifications whether you have Safari open or not. The notifications are free and work just like the alerts we send to people who use the Journal Sentinel’s smartphone app.
More than 2,000 readers have opted to get the notifications since we made the service available last week.
In the coming weeks, we hope to make these alerts more robust, allowing you to choose whether you just want notifications for local news, business news, area sports teams and entertainment news.
We’re expecting Google Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox to add support for the notifications by the end of the year.
- If you find the notifications are disappearing from your screen too quickly, you can change a setting on your computer to keep them on your screen until you remove them. Visit your System Preferences in OSX and select “Notifications.” Then select Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The default type of notification is described as a “Banner.” If you change your type of notification for the Journal Sentinel to “Alert,” the message will stay on your screen until you dismiss it.
- If you decide you don’t want notifications anymore, just open Safari and select “Preferences” from the Safari menu. There, you can turn the notifications on or off. (If you’ve opted out of notifications and decide you want them, this is where you can make that change.)
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