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Notificant delivers Growl-like notifications across multiple Macs
Notificant is an OS X reminder app designed to work with multiple computers. It's not vying to replace Growl on your Mac; it's more of a complement to the venerable notification app. While Growl lets you get alerts from apps on your local machine, Notificant lets you create new alerts and reminders and send them to any of your computers.
Sure, with a little bit of tinkering in the Terminal, Growl can actually send notifications to other computers on your local network, but that doesn't help when you're out and about with your MacBook. With Notificant, you can quickly whip up a new reminder on your desktop machine using a Web interface, and have that reminder go off later on your laptop. It's like setting iCal reminders without iCal, and it works on as many computers as you want.
Notificant will run you 5 bucks in the Mac App Store, and you'll have to set up a (free) account to start using it.
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Subscribe to commentsJames Dehnert SrJan 11th 2011 5:57PM
Actually, Growl can be set up to receive messages from other machines. Conversely, it can also be set up to send messages to another machine. Just look under the Network tab on the Growl control panel. It even tells you the ports to open should you be running a firewall.
Having said that, Notification clearly has functionality that Growl doesn't offer. It looks to be an excellent compliment to Growl. I wonder if I can have Notification use Growl to post its notifications?
James Dehnert SrJan 11th 2011 5:59PM
My apologies for calling Notificant Notification.
wojtekjakobczykJan 12th 2011 4:12AM
What he says. It's really hard to omit the "Network" tab on Growl preference pane.