Notification Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple sending battery recall emails to registered users

by David Chartier (Sep 1st, 2006)

If there was ever a good reason to register a product like a notebook, being warned that it might catch fire, and getting the chance to avoid said fire, is as good as any in our book. We're receiving reports that Apple has begun sending emails to registered owners of iBooks and PowerBooks, ...

Widget Watch: eBay Watcher 3.0

by David Chartier (Jun 7th, 2006)

If your picture is hanging on eBay's 'Favorite Customers of All Time' award wall, this eBay Watcher widget might be just for you. As a powerhouse eBay monitoring tool, this widget has it all: up to three items can be watched at once, audio feedback for price changes and auction ending, Growl ...

Hack iCal to present alarms through Growl

by David Chartier (May 15th, 2006)

If you're a Growl fanatic, or maybe iCal's alarms just aren't cutting it for you, a forum thread at cocoaforge might provide you with some options for getting iCal and Growl to shake hands. Discussion has included various methods of using AppleScript, hacking the innards of iCal and even replacing ...

Gmail-Growl Utility 1.7

by David Chartier (Apr 29th, 2006)

The Gmail-Growl Utility that adds some seriously handy features to Google's official Gmail Notifier has been updated with a functionality face-lift and some fixes. It now has an option to toggle on/off Growl notifications for those times when you just need silence, and in Mac OS X Tiger you can now ...

So long iCal, hello Google Calendar

by David Chartier (Apr 18th, 2006)

Call me crazy, but I think Google is using some kind of mental suggestion on me while I sleep, as I am slowly falling for their products one by one (maybe I should shut my Mac off at night so they can't get to me?). I've been hanging out at Google News more often, I haven't started Mail.app in ...

Gmail Notifier updated, offers opening of Gmail messages

by David Chartier (Jan 8th, 2006)

Growl is a utility that, like the drunkenbatman, has become a necessity in my daily work. As far as email is concerned, even though I can't bring myself to ditch Mail.app and Address Book completely due to device synchronization issues, Gmail has certainly found its place in my daily tool-belt as ...