Growl is the is ultimate notification system for the Mac. It's the easiest way to know what is going on with other applications while you are working on something else.
Growl is an easy way to display notifications and can be used multiple different ways easily.
Never before has there been an anything that personalizes notifications in such an effective way. You can receive notifications in several ways, such as on screen, via email, or even have them spoken to you.
Plus if you know a bit about web technologies (CSS/XHTML/Javascript) then you can make a Growl style look how you want it to.
NOTE: Growl 1.3.3 can only be purchased via the Mac App Store (the buy link redirects you to its App Store page). To purchase/download applications via the App Store an Apple account is required.
Here are some key features of "Growl":
· Personalize your notifications. Choose Growl's presentation, look and feels.
· Keeps working even when you are not. Come back to your mac and review what happened while you were gone with Rollup.
· Easy to use Applications tab for controlling what you receive and what gets blocked.
· Speech display for hearing your notifications, great for those who are visually impaired.
· Awesome notification history, so you can see what has been going on.
· A large variety of styles come with Growl. Anything from nano which is tiny, to music video which is huge.
· Make your own Growl styles very easily with web technology to give Growl your own look and feel.
· Send Growl notifications from Cocoa, AppleScript, or over the network.
· Networking so that two or more macs can forward notifications to each other.
· Can work with the iPhone and iPad via Prowl.
Requirements:
· 64-bit processor
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Growl now works correctly on case-sensitive file systems.
· All of the preferences selections should now show up in the toolbar.