Software Update: Growl 0.7

Growl is a useful program for the Mac OS X platform that allows the notifications of more than 120 other programs can be displayed on the screen. For example, the aMSN program can give a small pop-up when someone comes online and the YMail program gives you a pop-up with the message that new mail has arrived. The developers released Growl 0.7 a few days ago with the following announcement:

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:

• Added a status item
• Growl sends notifications when applications register
• Passive version check
• Added an option to log all notifications
• squelch mode
• Network support
• Bonjour support

Preference Pane:

• Ability to enable or disable click handlers
• New about tab
• Application search field
• New preview button

Display Plugins:

• 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
• Multi-monitor support
• Smaller notifications without title or description
• Duration sliders
• Opacity sliders

Extras:

• 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

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