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Product Description:
OmniGrowl is an expandable framework for sending Growl Notifications for applications that do not natively support Growl, generally which have to be polled for changes.
- Built-in support for upcoming iCal events, To-Dos, Birthdays, etc
- Built-in support for Address Book Birthdays
- Built-in support for iTunes track changes (off by default)
- Built-in support for news headlines
- Customizable support for log monitoring
- Much more!
- Source code available, expandable framework
What's new in this version:
- 2.0.1: Bug fix related to Woot check when checking not enabled. [Sorry!]
- Major upgrade!
- Flight status feature [www.flightstats.com]
- Flight status monitoring looks for iCal entries like: NWA 333 DTW-LAX
- Yahoo traffic checking more configurable
- More forgiving with incorrectly entered Yahoo Location IDs
- Pollstar: limited international support added for concert notifications
- OnTour: discontinued because OnTour locked out 3rd party web access by requiring a special venue code (please complain!)
- New icon including Leopard icon (512x512)
- Notifications now display new icon by default
- Previous behavior displaying icon of originating application (iCal, etc.) can be set as an option.
- RSS: re-direction fixed for some feeds
- RSS: feed:// URLs now allowed
- RSS: some .rdf feeds supported
- Added daily Woot notification (off by default)
- Vastly improved and more customizable log monitoring interface.
- Total redesign of preferences window with tabs, much more user-friendly and nicer to look at
- New clock to set at what time to display notifications for all day events the next day
- R.O.S frequency can be set to 0 (off) by sliding it all the way to the left
- Button to enable AFP logging in terminal
- Start at login button now opens Accounts prefs pane to disable if OmniGrowl already installed
- Access to Growl preference pane from OmniGrowl preference window
- Nags less frequent and can be turned off totally in OmniGrowl prefs.
- Completely reworked documentation again.
- Hidden debug feature: press CMD-L on preferences window to show internal error log.
- Other minor tweaks.
- Now Tiger + only. Version 1.5.2 is the last to support Panther. Version 2.0 has not been tested with Leopard but a compatibility upgrade will come after the release of Leopard.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
- Growl
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| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Ahem.. geektool replacement? - Version: 3.7, 9/23/2009 11:47AM PST
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Paradoxial
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A very useful application - Version: 3.6.2, 9/15/2009 01:50AM PST
Paul Hagstrom
I've been using OmniGrowl for quite a long time, and I do really miss it now when it's on a machine that's not installed. The developers have generally been pretty quick to address problems (though I haven't interacted with them directly), and it's otherwise been pretty unobtrusive. I would definitely recommend this. I haven't seen (at least in any recent version) problems with the preferences pane always coming up, it works as advertised. I haven't tried everything it can do, but I have tried the RSS feeds, weather, iTunes notifications, log notifications, SMART notifications, and iCal notifications, and all work just as they're supposed to.
Makes me grumpy! - Version: 3.4.2, 10/29/2008 02:40AM PST
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grh-akl
Grrr. No uninstall option! I'm sick of the dane thing asking me every time if I want to make it a start-up item. I already said yes a hundred times, then I started to say no. Now I want to uninstall it. Can't.
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I have OmniGrown AND GeekTool, and they fulfill totally different niches. I don't see OmniGrowl running shell scripts, and nor should it. They're different, and that's good. But the unnecessary and ill-advised jab at GeekTool is pretty unprofessional, and is enough to make me think twice about using OmniGrowl.