Growl is een handig programma voor het Mac OS X-platform waarmee de notificaties van meer dan 120 andere programma's op het scherm getoond kunnen worden. Zo kan het programma aMSN bijvoorbeeld een klein pop-upje geven wanneer er iemand online komt en het programma YMail geeft je een pop-upje met de melding dat er nieuwe mail is aangekomen. De ontwikkelaars hebben enige dagen geleden Growl 0.7 de deur uitgedaan met de volgende aankondiging:
Growl 0.7 is now released into the wild! This release includes an awesome new feature, network notifications. Also included is the ability to make displays with CSS/HTML, which we are calling Styles. 0.7 includes several new displays: Crystal, Candybars, and Plain. Finally, 0.7 replaces the Installer package with double-click installation: simply double-click the prefpane on the disk image, and System Preferences will install it for you.
Growl Core:Preference Pane:
- Added a status item
- Growl sends notifications when applications register
- Passive version check
- Added an option to log all notifications
- Squelch mode
- Networking support
- Bonjour support
Display Plugins:
- Ability to enable or disable click handlers
- New about tab
- Application search field
- New preview button
Extras:
- New display: WebKit. See WebKit style documentation for more information.
- New display: Brushed
- Bezel: new option for fading/shrinking
- Bezel: two new variants
- More customizable colors
- MusicVideo: new effect when a queued notification fades in
- Mouse over effect for Bezel, Brushed, Bubbles and Smoke
- Hold non sticky notifications on screen with mouseover
- Multimonitor support
- Smaller notifications without title or description
- Duration sliders
- Opacity sliders
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- New automatic summary option for GrowlMail
- Fixed summary mode
- GrowlMail is now compatible with Mail 2.0 (Tiger)
- Fixed GrowlMail image fetching from Address Book
- Fixed GrowlTunes showing 5 stars for unrated tracks
- GrowlSafari now sends different notifications for short and long downloads
- GrowlSafari can now send notifications for RSS feed updates
- growlnotify can wait until the notification is clicked or timed out