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OmniGrowl - 3.3

growl notifications for iCal, Address Book & more

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All Time:	(3.2)
Version 3.3:	Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version:	3.3
Release Date:	2008-08-29
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 3.3):	528
Downloads (all versions):	31,853
Price:	$10.00

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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 opening a URL twice in default browsers other than Safari. (Worked around Growl issue.)
RSS notifications now show custom icons for major web sites, especially news and Apple sites, when no image is found.
If no RSS image is found and no custom icon is found, RSS notifications show RSS icon instead of Safari icon.
Included facility to add your own custom icons for RSS web sites (see Advanced Info).
Added option to insert blank lines in RSS hourly headlines for easier readability of individual headlines.
Better handling of HTML entities in RSS hourly headlines.
Added new feature to exclude specific calendars by matching calendar names.
Exclusion interface is a drawer accessed from the Personal tab.
Address Book dates custom label exclusions can now also be accessed on the exclusions drawer.
Revised iCal disabled calendar checking with better unicode support.
Added script menu scripts to pause and resume OmniGrowl. Can be used to suspend OmniGrowl without resetting notifications shown that session.
Eliminated Leopard warning if too many events on disabled calendars since it is no longer relevant with Calendar Store.
Fixed some issues with AMG bios.
AMG bios now show All Music custom icon if no artist image is found.
Custom icons shown for Woot, MacZot, last.fm, and Pollstar also.
Fixed setup last.fm link and clarified last.fm setup information.
Fixed some other links.
Suppressed Error -4960 when logging out while Apple Mail was also running. (Unknown conflict with Apple Mail, error only suppressed.)

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

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Ahem.. geektool replacement? - Version: 3.7, 9/23/2009 11:47AM PST

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Paradoxial

What is that line doing in the program updates? "Since OmniGrowl handles everything, this is a much better solution for GeekTool users than anything currently available (just try it)."

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.

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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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Makes me grumpy!