iAlert For Mac

iAlert is a SIMBL plug-in that seamlessly integrates with your system and enables you to view events notifications in a transparent floating window. Of course, you can customize the appearance of the notifications panel to match your personal taste.

Right off the bat, you must make sure that the SIMBL loader is installed on your Mac: you can use the SIMBL package installer that comes within the iAlert software archive. IAlert comes with its own installer app that also integrates removal capabilities.

To help you control the iAlert notifications panel, the installer places a preference pane in your System Preferences. Note that you can also manually install the preferences pane: from the Finder contextual menu choose to see the contents of the iAlert installer app and launch the pref pane file from the Install folder.

In the iAlert Preferences panel you can easily adjust the appearance of the alert panel: you get to change the opacity, the background effect, the color, or the alert sound. You can change the alerts behavior: you can setup a default showing time period, you can choose to see the next alert automatically, or you can see new alerts miniaturized.

What’s more, you have the option to block all alerts if certain applications are active. iAlert enables you to setup your own active alerts and rules, but the software archive also provides specific Entourage, Firefox, and Thunderbird add-ons that can extend its capabilities.

iAlert is an unobtrusive SIMBL plug-in that offers you the possibility to view custom alert messages in a panel placed on your desktop. The plug-in seamlessly integrates with your system and can be controlled via a small System Preferences pane.