Growl

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Version: 2.0 || Release Date: 2012-09-19 || License: BSD License Developer: The Growl Project | App Owner: the_tick

Notification system for OS X apps.

Growl is a notification system that allows any application to send it a notification, and then it displays it. You can (for example) be notified that you have new email, or that a download completed, etc.

Support for Applescript, Perl, Python, TCL, Cocoa, Carbon, Ruby and more being added.

Required OS: 10.7
Tags: pane , preference , system , adium , notifications

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62 Opinions

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by johnny_boy, 5 years and 97 days ago (score: 2)

Looks gorgeous with the iPhonesque theme.
http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16783761&p=1
(Found via John Gruber's DaringFireball)

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by deef, 5 years and 98 days ago

Just got Growl along with Shimo, but now I can't get the extras b/c the growl.info site is down -- apparently it's been down a lot the last month or so :(

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by norz, 5 years and 99 days ago

Note: example scripts are in the version .7.6 dmg, but not in the 1.1.2 dmg.
These scripts can be useful to monitor a folder, have a notification from Salling Clicker, etc.

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by adidas, 5 years and 100 days ago (score: 1)

The dog's boll*cks, the bee's knees, the cream of the crop. So useful it's hardly imaginable to live without. I love it. This + growlcamino = perfection.

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by berdan, 5 years and 137 days ago (score: -1)

The Growl project has hosting issues at the moment.

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by higginsdj, 5 years and 138 days ago (score: -1)

All links to Growl are returning 404's?

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by endekks, 5 years and 140 days ago

Love it, but I need real Mail.app support - and not just a hack that works for some and not for others. One of the main draws for this application for me was mail notification, and without it, I just don't get the main function from Growl that I need.

Here's to hoping that it gets working soon.

Oh - and it doesn't help that the site is down. ___

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by cottinghamk, 5 years and 141 days ago

Couldn't live without it. I have nearly every add-on imaginable for my programs. Now if only somebody would make an OmniWeb Growl plugin...

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by muffindcc, 5 years and 142 days ago

Simply fantastic, allows me to continue working and monitor my conversations with just a glance. Fine product, only needs to have access to more applications.

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by norz, 5 years and 200 days ago (score: -1)

1.1.2

Extras improvements

* GrowlMail fix: In Summary mode, post one notification (per account) after all messages come in

Preference pane improvements

* About tab layout improvements (English only)
* Standardized layout for all built-in display preferences (English only)
* Sounds menu now reads from /Library/Sounds and ~/Library/Sounds
* Default is now the first entry in any popup it appears in
* Fix notifications to default to menu bar's screen if the desired screen isn't available
* Separators appear between distinct groups in popups
* Update German translation
* Fix broken iCal prefs in certain localizations

Installer improvements

* Fix System Preferences not quitting on non-English systems
* Fix background image transparency
* Fix GrowlMail installer to note and enforce Mail not running

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