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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:
- Fixed problem that preferences window would open at launch even if that option was not checked.
- Added new Network Change notification (ethernet & wireless & neither)
- Added support for Address Book custom date events (such as anniversaries).
- Changed Address Book notification names from “AB Birthdayâ€� to “AB Eventâ€� accordingly.
- Address Book notifications are clickable.
- Added advanced method to exclude certain kinds of Address Book custom date events.
- Added anniversary icon and facility to customize anniversary icon.
- Address Book now launches if not open when clicking “Get from Address Bookâ€�.
- Added several "Immediate Actions" to the scripts menu:
- Immediate Actions are Weather Now, Traffic Now, Headlines Now, AMG Now, AMG Artist Search, iTunes Now, Flight Status Now.
- Disable certain settings when other settings make them not applicable.
- Better handling of running OmniGrowl on standard (non-admin) accounts.
- Better handling of entering password for logs.
- Welcome message no longer contains shareware message if you have paid.
- Fixed Leopard problem that system would ask for location of ScreenSaverEngine if screen saver had never been run before.
- Fixed issue updating preferences if updating to version 3.x from versions before 2.5.
- Power status change uses Energy Saver lightbulb icon if option to show icons of source application is selected.
- Network status change uses network icon if option to show icons of source application is selected.
- Resolved some issues with duplicate RSS Instant notifications by using MD5 checksums.
- Updated and simplified documentation.
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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| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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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.