Hacking iCal to display alarms with Growl
A thread on Cocoa|forge discusses some ways in which you can hack iCal so that it will display its alarms through Growl. Suggestions centre on modifying iCal’s internal applescripts to send iCal...
View ArticleClever Growl hack for iCal
Two months ago, Hawk Wings posted about an iCal hack for using Growl to display its alerts. It was clever, complicated and sacrificed the ability to email alerts. Thomas Aylott has improved on the hack...
View ArticleGoogle Notifier for Mac: Gmail, Gcal alerts
Google has expanded and renamed its Gmail Notifier app so that it includes alerts and reminders from Google Calendar. The revised app, now called Google Notifier, adds two icons to your menubar: In the...
View ArticleOmniGrowl: Growl alerts from iCal, RSS feeds and more
OmniGrowl is described by its developer as “an expandable framework for sending Growl Notifications for applications that do not natively support Growl”. (Growl is a pop-up notification system for OS X...
View ArticleGet selective GrowlMail-like notifications
David Coffin has written a little applescipt that “mimics” the new mail notifications offered by GrowlMail. When I first started using Mail.app, I loved the full-on “in your face” style of...
View ArticleEasy Growl alerts in iCal
Some time ago, while I wasn’t watching, Thomas Aylott updated his clever scripts which make iCal able to pipe its alarms through to Growl. Previously, when Hawk Wings last blogged it, the process of...
View ArticleOmniFocus’ new tricks: Notifications, iPhone syncing
OmniGroup are really pounding away at the public beta of OmniFocus. Every day, sometimes more than once a day, they push out a new build with tweaks, bugfixes and improvements. Today, a new feature...
View ArticleMsgpush.com: Better push email for the iPhone?
Msgpush.com is a new web service that takes advantage of the iPhone 3.0 software to offer instant alerts on the iPhone when email arrives in your inbox. When the iPhone was first released, there was a...
View Articlemail.appetizer beta now works with 10.6.4
Speaking of notification utilities, Stefan Schüßler is actively at work updating his popular (and beautiful) mail.appetizer plugin for mail.app. The most recent development build (150) works with...
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