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Notifo (YC W10) Launches New Site and Mac Growl Client

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Re: Notifo (YC W10) Launches New Site and Mac Growl Client

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Post by there »

fwiw, prowl has done the same thing (forward growl notifications to an iphone) for at least a year:

http://prowl.weks.net/

i submitted a patch to the adium guys to be able to generate events (growl notifications, and thus prowl events) only while away:

http://trac.adium.im/ticket/13278

this way as soon as i stepped away from or locked my mac, adium would go away and any instant messages received while i was away would get instantly forwarded to my phone.

now that i'm on an android phone and an openbsd laptop, i can't use this setup anymore, but i'm anxiously awaiting notifo's android client so i can write something to do this with pidgin.

Re: Notifo (YC W10) Launches New Site and Mac Growl Client

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Post by jazzychad »

there wrote: post #2

fwiw, prowl has done the same thing (forward growl notifications to an iphone) for at least a year: http://prowl.weks.net/ i submitted a patch to the adium guys to be able to generate events (growl notifications, and thus prowl events) only while away: http://trac.adium.im/ticket/13278 this way as soon as i stepped away from or locked my mac, adium would go away and any instant messages received while i was away woul…

well, this isn't actually that. it's the other way around. notifications you get through Notifo are displayed through Growl on your mac (not forwarded from growl to notifo).

There are a couple of growl forwarder plugins out there for notifo that have been made by the community.

we're working on the Android client, have no fear :)

Re: Notifo (YC W10) Launches New Site and Mac Growl Client

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Post by PStamatiou »

blasdel wrote: post #5

In Google Chrome 5.0.375.125 on OS X, your new website looks like this after a brief flash of working content: http://imgur.com/kvDye.png If I block the TypeKit script, it works just fine. I think it looks better too.

I noticed that same thing once or twice during development but couldnt reproduce it regularly. Yeah it's typekit. I sent them a screencast of the issue but haven't heard back (this was about a week ago).

If I closed Chrome or did the icognito mode it worked just fine. Any tips on how to reproduce it would be appreciated.

Re: Notifo (YC W10) Launches New Site and Mac Growl Client

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Post by holman »

The new site is really great. Notifo was one of those services that launched with such a terrible look and feel, but I still thought the core idea they had was pretty solid. I figured they could always go back later on, clean things up and do quite well. I'm glad to see that they've been able to do just that. Really happy for them.

I'd love to see more and more service adoption now; hopefully the new site + new Mac client will help foster that.

Re: Notifo (YC W10) Launches New Site and Mac Growl Client

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Post by csmeder »

Hey Notifo,

FYI there is a bad link on http://notifo.com/user/setup in this paragraph.

Services and projects are continually being released for Notifo. Some services require you to visit their website and provide your username. Projects send notifications to your account only and require your API Secret found on the settings page.

http://notifo.com/settings should point to http://notifo.com/user/settings

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