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Sticky Notifications Lets You Pin Reminders To The OS X Notification Center

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The human brain is a funny thing; it has the ability to remember the most horrific and embarrassing things about your life but will immediately forget something important and crucial. To deal with this behavior, people do everything from setting up reminders to using sticky notes and even tying strings around their fingers. What’s common among most reminder apps is that they are meant to remind you something at a defined time but forgetfulness doesn’t always give you a date. You might be working on something and perhaps you have a great idea that you need to get down on paper but get called away from your desk before you can. Sticky Notifications is a free Mac app (with a paid version available for $3) that is a reminder app for the present. The app is for recording an idea that you can easily view via the Notification Center the second you return to your desk. The free variant has no ads but will remind you occasionally to buy the full version. Read More

Hiss: Reroute Growl Alerts To OS X Mountain Lion Notification Center

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Mountain Lion’s Notification Center is one of the features that’s commanded a lot of attention and very little critique, if any at all. It’s also the feature that had everyone saying Growl, the popular notification app for routing and unifying notifications in OS X, would go the way of the dinosaurs. What some people forgot was that not all apps would be compatible with Mountain Lion, and not all developers would make supporting the notification center their top priority. That means for those who have upgraded to Mountain Lion, they now have two different kinds of notifications to watch out for. Hiss is a free app for Mac (Mountain Lion only) that makes the transition easier. It re-routes notifications that apps usually send through Growl, and displays them in the Notification Center panel. The slight downside is that unlike the stock apps that classify the notifications by the app name, all notifications are listed under Hiss. Read More

Get The Mountain Lion Growl Notification Look In Mac OS X Lion

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Mountain Lion will debut soon. In the mean time, a lot of blogs have taken the developer’s version apart, detailed the changes, and posted quite a few screenshots that will make you anticipate the new version even more. For those that don’t have the Apple Developer ID needed to download the Mountain Lion Preview, you can still try out Messages on Mac OS X Lion, and get the new Mountain Lion notification look on Growl with Mountain Lion Growl Theme. Mountain Lion Growl Theme lets you view notifications as they would appear on Mountain Lion. Read More

Itsy: Simple Twitter Client That Supports Growl Notifications [Mac]

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TweetDeck is an extremely popular Adobe Air based Twitter client, with both a Mac and Windows PC version. TweetDeck is feature rich, and perhaps, an avid Twitter user’s dream; however, if you’re looking for something simpler, Itsy might be the answer. Itsy is a free Mac app that is perfect for the passive Twitter user. It supports Growl notifications, lets you view images, retweet tweets, favorite them, reply to them, view direct messages, mentions and search Twitter. The app regularly refreshes and checks for new tweets. It sits quietly in the menu bar, and while the window can be hidden by closing it, Itsy will continue to run and can be reopened from either the Dock or Menu Bar icon. Read More

HardwareGrowler: Hardware & Network Change Notifications On Mac [Paid]

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If you’ve been a Mac user, even for a while, chances are good that you know what Growl notifications are. Growl is a third party unified notification system for all apps that support it. It’s sole purpose is to give you notifications, but instead of receiving them from each app individually, this notification app routes them all, so that you receive notification through it only. In short, it is the one notification app to rule them all. HardwareGrowler is a Mac app available for $1.99 in the Mac app store, and it does for hardware and network changes what Growl does for apps. The app gives you notifications for any and all changes in hardware, and changes to your network. Read More

Growl Fork: Get Growl Notifications On Mac OS X 10.7 Lion For Free

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If you updated to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, you are likely enjoying all the great new features in it but what might be putting you off a bit is the fact that you have to pay for a feature you previously enjoyed for free, i.e. Growl notifications. Granted that $2 isn’t a huge amount to pay but making the transition from free to paid is rarely easy. Growl Fork is a Mac app that is free and restores the Growl functionality for Mac Lion. Install it, add apps, customize it and you are all set to start receiving Growl notifications. Read More

LyricsSeeker: Get Lyrics For iTunes Songs From MetroLyrics [Mac]

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If you find it a bit tedious to search the lyrics of songs that you play in iTunes, LyricsSeeker is the application you need. Supporting Growl notification, LyricsSeeker is a Mac app that automatically displays the lyrics of the song as soon as you play it in iTunes. Like other lyrics apps, it reads meta tag information of the song to fetch lyrics of from online sources. You can adjust the Growl notification settings, toggle it on/off and change the lyrics display time duration. LyricsSeeker automatically saves history of lyrics of one playback session, so you can quickly access recently fetched lyrics. Read More

Grooveshark Desktop For Mac OS X With Mini Controller & Theme Support

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Do you hate to manually navigate to Grooveshark website to listen to your playlist, search new tracks and add them to existing playlists? Grooveshark Desktop is an app for Mac OS X which uses Grooveshark's web app elements to give you an unobtrusive environment of playing and managing your playlist items. In addition to playing and sifting through songs, it’s accompanied with Bowtie like mini controller with customizable themes to play and navigate through tracks without having to open the main window. Along with an on-screen mini controller, it comes packed with Last.fm, media keys and Growl notification support. Read More

GrowlMail Posts Desktop Notifications For Mac Mail App

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Do you always miss out on important emails with Mac's native email client – Mail? What you need is an instant notification system which notifies you about incoming mails. GrowlMail is a small plugin for Mac Mail app to notify you of incoming mails the way you want. Unlike other notification tools for Mac Mail app, it allows a wide range of customizations in terms of when to send notifications, message text, structure, etc. You can change the way message appears on your desktop whilst options to customize the message notification body text can also be defined along. You can set it to always notify on receiving mails or let it send message only when Mail app is not active but running in background. Moreover, if you get overwhelming number of emails everyday, you can let it show only summary of received mails instead of separate notification for each message. Read More

Monitor Website Content And Send Notification To Growl

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Growl Site Monitor is a small open source tool that requests page content and verifies if it returns the correct content. If the content is not properly returned or an error occurs, users are instantly notified via Growl. The original intention behind this app is to use this with Prowl (iPhone application), so that you can get notifications on your iPhone. There are plenty of apps out there that can tell you when the website is down, but very rarely will you come across an app that can tell you if the content has changed on a specific page. This has two benefits; first that in a large publishing company you can find out which page content has been modified so you detect a problem, and second, that if you are following your favourite website, you can see if the new content has been added or not. Originally built for the purpose of checking content, it can also be used to check if the website is down or not. At the moment users can only add the website and the content name, along with the checking interval time via the XML file. Add the URL that you want to check between the <Uri> and </Uri> tags and type the content you want to check between the <RegularExpression> and </RegularExpression> tags. To give the content check a name, type the name in-between the quotation marks <ContentCheck Name="[name goes here]">. It is fairly easy to use once you get a grip on how to modify the XML file. Once the XML file is ready, save it and then launch the application. Click Browse and select the location of the Configuration file and choose it. Now click Check All Now button to begin checking the content on the website. As you can see in the first screenshot, one content check failed while the other succeeded. If you have Prowl installed on your iPhone, you will be instantly notified once regular expression does not match the content in the URL you provided. Download Growl Site Monitor

Get Instant Desktop Notification Alerts When Important Event Occurs [Growl & Snarl]

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When an important event occurs, who wants to miss it? Nobody. This is exactly what this post is all about. Whether a download has finished, the next track of your music playlist has begun, the battery of your laptop is going to die, or you have received a new email, both Growl For Windows and Snarl will notify you know about it instantly. I have reviewed both free system notifications tools in details, below.

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