Push Growl notifications to iPhone with Prowl

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If you’ve seen a string of notifications pop up on your screen and then gracefully fade away, you’ve probably seen Growl; it’s the open source & popular system-wide framework that allows applications to let you know when something happens. For instance, a Growl notification might appear to inform you of a newly-arrived email, new mentions on Twitter, a change of song in iTunes, or a download completing in Safari or Transmission.

The notification itself is a customizable pop-up that can also include an auditory notification as well. Growl is very flexible; it allows you to choose exactly which events trigger a notice, or pick a particular notification style for a specific event. Growl includes support for hundreds of OS X applications and is one of the first items I install on a new system.

Probably the only feature that could make Growl even more awesome

is if it were to support forwarding notifications to an iPhone or iPod Touch running 3.0 via the new Push framework. Enter iPhone application Prowl (iTunes link), it is a Growl client for the iPhone that sends your Mac’s Growl notifications out to your iPhone. Read on for my experiences and thoughts on the first Growl application for the iPhone.

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Push Growl notifications to iPhone with Prowl originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Push Growl notifications to iPhone with Prowl originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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