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OmniGrowl - bring Growl to unsupported apps
Growl is a system-wide and extensible notification utility for everything from your next iTunes song to whether your Mac just lost its internet connection. As handy as a tool this may be, not all apps offer support for Growl, and it's likely many of those apps never will (iCal, and Safari RSS are prime examples here). For those apps, we now have OmniGrowl (scroll down or search the page), and Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings has put it through its paces. Out of the box, OmniGrowl can alert you of iCal events, birthdays from Address Book contacts, S.M.A.R.T. hard drive failures, changes in power sources and more. Hopefully, even more apps are coming to help spread the Growl love over the rest of Mac OS X.
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Macskeeball said 9:33AM on 1-11-2007
I take it you've never looked in the Extras folder of the Growl DMG.
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Daniel said 9:36AM on 1-11-2007
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Growl Safari support RSS? The only thing is that it just shows a summary of how many new articles you have and no details about them.
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Christopher Forsythe said 1:06PM on 1-11-2007
Daniel, yes it does.
Here is a list of what we ship on the Growl dmg, beyond Growl:
Extras/GrowlDict
Extras/GrowlMail
Extras/GrowlSafar
Extras/GrowlTunes
Extras/HardwareGrowler
Extras/Rawr-jour
Extras/growlctl
Extras/growlnotify
Scripts/Email
Scripts/Growl SVN Repo Scripts
Extras/Snak
Extras/iCal
Extras/iTunes
Extras/Finder Folder Actions
Extras/Salling Clicker
Extras/X-Chat
Extras/iPod
Extras/irssi
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