Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen, being the semi-standard it centralizes the management off notification for nearly every application. You can check all applications that support Growl in the Application Database. You can call it from scripts (apple script as well as bash scripts) and it not only offers visual notifications instead you can send a email,sms or trigger other stuff.
Growl features:
NotificationsNotifications are a way for your applications to provide you with new information, without you having to switch from the application you're already in.
ControlGrowl offers you complete control over which notifications are shown and how they are displayed. You will not receive any notifications that you do not want, because you can easily turn notifications (specific ones or all of them) off.
Ease of useWhen you start up a Growl-enabled application, it will "just work." Your apps can start displaying notifications right away.
Consistency
Growl centralizes all your notification preferences into its preference pane - you can control them all from one place, and you know exactly how they are going to behave.
PowerfulGrowl is very flexible. Notifications can be emailed to you or spoken instead of displayed on the screen.
Skinnable
Choose your favorite visual style or create new ones, you can even create scripts that instead of displaying the notification triggers a webservice or send an email.
37 comments:
that last picture when you see it bricks will be shat
Looks handy!
nice one!
So this avoids having multiple notifications in just one place?
very cool
Cool app!
oh that's pretty cool.
looks useful to keep track of things
Growl somehow annoys me... :)
This seems very good to keep organized! That's something I need to work on lol
I don´t run a lot of applications so I don´t think I need Growl.
I always install Growl everytime I do a fresh install on a mac. It's just that useful. I believe there's a windows alternative too.
Sounds pretty useful, but i don't have a mac :(
If I ever get a mac, i will freaking love you for all your tips :P
looks very functional. :D
i use windows =[
Sounds great, will check it out
great app
ahaha lol thats a very cool picture
Speaking of standard super-useful applications, you should do a feature about Quicksilver! I know there's probably a few functions I don't know about, and it's totally awesome.
this could probably be kewl.
I didn't realize there was so many handy tools!
That is nifty!
I really wonder how you get all these programms across your desk...
so cool!
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Great idea for people who have lots of things happening at once.
that's totally awesome
Macs ftw!
Growl is great - I've been using it for many years now. I primarily use it for monitoring blogs and email.
Looks good for organizing things.
This program is great only by its name alone, what do you use? GROWL I GROWL
That's a cool program.
very nice! must have app
i love growl, been using it for awhile now. its pretty handy
Hmm I don't have a mac but this is a great idea.
Hmm, looks like it could be pretty useful.
i dont have mac :(
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