How to Implement a Cool Alert/Information Overlay on iPhone? - iphone

I understand how to include a standard alert within my iPhone application, and can dismiss it with an OK or CLOSE button (see Epicurious example in image).
How can I make a cool alert/notice overlay like the one seen in the foursquare app (see foursquare example in image)? In particular, how to include the alert/notice layout with graphic. Is this a separate view?
If you can point me to a tutorial or sample code that will get me moving in the right direction, it's much appreciated! :)

Answered here.

Jeff Lamarche has a nice write up on the topic here

Sam Vermette has a nice blog post about this http://samvermette.com/309
And this is his corresponding github project.
It's as easy as this:
[SVStatusHUD showWithImage:image status:#"Hello World!" duration:3];

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