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Snarl - transparent notification popups for Windows
by Grant Robertson Feb 23rd 2007 at 5:30PM
Snarl comes with two example notification plugins; Snarl Clock (a clock) and SnarlTunes (an iTunes interface). There is a somewhat active forum around Snarl where you can find third party notification plugins which may fit the bill for your intended use. Snarl isn't well supported yet, but is a really slick idea which could use the attention of more developers.
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E J Spies said 11:58PM on 2-23-2007
When you open the snarl web page and you try to see the screenshots, my NOD32 antivirus system reports a probably unknown New Heur_PE virus. Thought you guys should know about this when you are recommending this application. E J
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Rich said 7:57PM on 2-24-2007
Judging from the forums it has been brought up and the developer has assured people that Snarl is not a virus. It has been looked up as to why Norton is doing this but so far no reason has been found.
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Steven said 6:10PM on 2-26-2007
Snarl isn't well supported yet, but is a really slick idea which could use the attention of more developers.
"Snarl" is a reference to "Growl" - the OSX program that's been doing this exact thing for years. That being said, more power to them. It's great on Mac, and very widely used. If it catches on then it can be nothing but good (see GMail notifier, GrowlTunes, Adium, Cyberduck, etc)
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