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Product Description:
OmniGrowl aims to provide many practical notifications through Growl in a single application.
OmniGrowl is also an expandable framework for sending Growl notifications for applications that do not natively support Growl.
- 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:
- Major re-write of significant code portions.
- Optimized speed and performance in several areas.
- Now uses the Leopard Calendar Store on Leopard!
- This means iCal no longer needs to be open on Leopard, and OmniGrowl is much faster.
- Complete re-design of RSS settings which allow for a much higher level of customization.
- Individual RSS feeds can be temporarily disabled, can include short descriptions, can include images, etc.
- The total number of RSS feeds is now unlimited.
- RSS instant headline checks are staggered, so no more than 3 are checked at once, improving performance.
- Included a few other default RSS feeds as suggestions.
- Clickable notifications implemented!
- Added (optionally) clickable events and to-dos.
- RSS feed notifications (Hourly Headlines and Instant) are (optionally) clickable.
- Woot, MacZot, and OED, and Yahoo Traffic, and AMG Bio notifications are (optionally) clickable.
- Included To-Do today (after 06:00) notification in with the To-Do tomorrow notification and renamed to "To-Do"
- Major interface redesign with a new Info tab and better layout.
- Really, truly made failed hacker attempt notification work properly.
- Added Hacker Attempt template script to further process the IPs of hackers.
- Introduced faster way to report iTunes track changes, sacrificing (optionally) artwork, etc.
- iTunes checks are not triggered if screen saver is active as it was before, thus possibly addressing sleep issues.
- iTunes (“fullâ€�) notification now skips displaying rating for non-rated tracks.
- Vastly improved AMG Bio speed, handling and timing.
- AMG Bio displays images if found.
- AMG Bio notifications can be set to adjustable minimum minutes apart.
- Reset password if decryption fails with notifications to re-enter.
- Fixed broken "Find Location ID" link on the news tab.
- Re-wrote good portions of the documentation.
- Broke up the documentation into sections as it was growing too long.
- OED notification formatting clean-up.
- Added birthday cake icon for birthdays.
- Added way to customize birthday cake and horoscope graphics.
- Added several new tests for iCal and Address Book events, to-dos, and birthdays.
- Added status output for the test window.
- Notifications surpressed while OmniGrowl preferences window is open for first 2 minutes or is open to any tab other than OmniGrowl after that (for more responsiveness while setting preferences).
- OmniGrowl no longer even asks if you want to add it to login items at startup, since the “Add to Loginâ€� button is obvious enough.
- S.M.A.R.T. checking can be turned off entirely.
- Maintained compatibility with Tiger with framework weak-linking and other work-arounds.
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 10.4 or later
- Growl
Screenshots:
 OmniGrowl 3 test window showing some of its features with notifications |
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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.