Growl. Now the Mac App Store

Among Mac Growl special representations of users do not need it, it is very well known and firmly settled on many computers. A recent update to version 1.3 brought pleasant surprises and not very. Developer pages with Growl moved to the Mac App Store, what tells us pretty banner on the site. Now he is not setting panel, and a standalone application, as required by the rules of the App Store. Now for the unpleasant, the status of the program changed from Free to Paid. Developer asks for it $ 1.99. However, not all that bad. Firstly, it is a modest sum for such a great application, and secondly, version 1.22 has remained free and available online.

The emergence of Growl in the App Store was successful. Very quickly, he took second place in the Top Paid, at this time, second only to OS X Lion. We must assume that becoming commercial, this project will begin to develop at a rapid pace and will receive more and more new features.

The first launch of the application is accompanied by a small welcoming window, telling about innovation, there will be prompted to download the script to remove the previous version.

The new version of Growl improved compatibility with Lion. Appeared Rollup list of alerts in case you were absent for some time, it is very convenient. Time after which the alarm will be sent to Rollup, you can customize.

Another innovation was the history of alerts. Now you can choose, if necessary, any number of alerts the number of days to store in case there is a need to view the old alerts. This function can be disabled.

If you had a choice before, Growl to display the menu bar or not, but now he will be present all the time. The appearance of icons varies Growl if you put on pause, which is useful in situations where the alarm can be distracting, such as when watching movies.

As well it should be noted that in the new version dropped support for plug-ins, such as GrowlMail and GrowlSafari. This is again due to the limitations of Mac App Store.

In this major change in end, we can only add that the move Growl in App Store - it's great news for fans of this program. Definitely I recommend to buy.

Download the Mac App Store: Growl
Price: $1.99
website Developer: Growl
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.6.6 and higher