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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.
- Nofications for upcoming iCal events, To-Dos, Birthdays, etc
- Notificatons for Address Book Birthdays
- Notificatons of iTunes track changes
- News headlines / RSS
- Yahoo Weather & Traffic
- Flight status for flights entered in iCal
- Concert notifications from Pollstar and last.fm
- Customizable support for log monitoring
- More!
- Source code available, expandable framework
What's new in this version:
- OmniGrowl now (partially) handles recurring iCal events
- New option to enable/disable recurring events checking and corresponding button on the Test tab.
- Disabling and then enabling recurring events checking will present option to scan now (same as above test button).
- Fixed ignore disabled calendars option. (Was always on.)
- Un-checking and re-checking ignore will re-load list of ignored calendars without needing to restart OmniGrowl.
- Added interface to enter an admin password to be stored on the Keychain to allow OmniGrowl to read secure logs
- Leopard: Address book "me" card check now works
- Leopard: iCal checking fixed (problem related to unique ID)
- Leopard: iCal disabled calendars checking fixed
- Leopard: Staggered polling of iCal to accommodate much slower AppleEvent responses from iCal 3 compared to iCal 2 (complain to Apple about this one folks!)
- Leopard: Added warning notification if combined enabled calendars have more than 1500 events.
- Leopard: Increased iCal timeout
- Leopard: OmniGrowl will quit after excessive time outs with a message.
- Leopard: Fixed Yahoo weather icon
- Leopard: (and maybe Tiger?) Fixed Last.fm if dashboard had less than 10 events.
- Leopard: Flight Stats problems fixed
- Other Leopard-related fixes.
- Notification history cleared at midnight to accommodate recurring events. (Down-side: may see duplicate notifications if an event starts at midnight that is not all-day.)
- Added option to limit notification titles to one line, which is more compatible with some Growl display styles (like Bezel)
- If Growl is not running at OmniGrowl launch, will display status panel while looking
- Welcome message is only sticky on first run now by default
- New notification for OmniGrowl status messages (previously was using "Welcome Message" for status which some people wanted to disable)
- OmniGrowl log can be toggled with CMD-L while preferences window is open.
- Log text formatting fixed and is automatically copied to the clipboard.
- Logs purged each 3000 entries.
- Debug mode (extra logging) can be toggled with CMD-D while preferences window is open.
- More informative debug logging.
- Other under-the-hood tweaks
- OmniGrowl has changed its license to $10 unrestricted shareware (Thank the Tick ;-) If you have previously donated any amount, thank you! There is no need to pay again. (Unless you really want to, and then who am I to stop you.)
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
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
- Growl
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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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- Ahem.. geektool replacement? (1 replies)
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.