Growl 2.0 is integrated into the Notifications Center Mountain Lion OS X

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Technology - Apple
Wednesday, 01 August 2012 01:31

What would the developers of Growl when Apple announced OS X Mountain Lion ? The application that had served for years Mac users to manage notifications hundreds and hundreds of applications, going to see now superseded by the new Apple Center notifications. Well, not be frightened or panic, the Growl development team will release version 2.0 of its application with a single goal: to integrate and improve OS X notifications Mountain Lion. In 9to5mac.com have been done with the Beta 2 of Growl full of news.

Growl 2.0

To exit notifications in OS X Mountain Lion Growl was a revolution in the management of OS X. To see in one glance all that was happening in our computer applications was something never seen on the Mac but as he often does Apple with good ideas, quickly launched an integrated version of this functionality with the release of its latest operating system.

At the risk evolve or disappear, the creators decided Growl go for a new type of application, designed to integrate into this new notification center and improve it, including many new features that OS X users will appreciate. Among them, we can choose the place of the screen where you want to display the alerts and new styles of reporting and acted upon. There will also be separately choose the styles and actions on each, as well as applications and messages that appear in the center of notifications selectively and which ones we want Growl customize them.

Other new features of Beta 2 of Growl are improvements in both design and keyboard shortcuts to interact with the notifications, offering users the possibility to hide notifications and interact with them without moving the mouse over them . In terms of design, it will be possible to change the opacity, the duration and position of all types of notifications. Remains unknown the exact number and types of them, but they promise to greatly exceed the only two options that Apple provides: alerts and strips. In addition you can view these notices in our smartphone with Prowl and Boxcar.

A big update ready to improve many of the features of the Center for OS X notifications Mountain Lion. Will Apple will copy or decide to live together peacefully with Growl? Time will tell.

Download: Growl $ 2.99 | € 2.79




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