[Exocet]

Stumbled across this great iPhone app via Gizmodo, linked through from Gruber. Prowl uses the iPhone push notification system to alert you of Growl events on your Mac. This essentially opens up the push notification system to anything, without needing a specific application on your iPhone.

Right now I've just configured it to set push out DM's I receive on Tweetie. A friend of mine talked about getting Transmission to notify him when a torrent completes downloading. I could even see myself set up a dedicated MSN account for friends and family members to send me messages without needed to pay for SMS.

Obviously this is only a one-way thing, however it is a very nice development and well worth the $3.99. I'll be using this app solidly over the next week and writing a full review for MacTalk in the near future. Check out Prowl here.

Screenshot:

[thatfilthyspringbok]

Just got it set up with Transmission and LOVING it! Trying to come up with other things for it to notify me with now

[bok]

Looking at hooking it up server side to push alerts from my server out via it instead of SMS.

[Peter_Pan]

Oh my god!

MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!

[bennyling]

Yeah - it's pretty cool.

Of course, I'd much prefer the iPhone Apps themselves have Push Notifications (COME ON ITWEETREPLY), but this'll have to do for the moment

[Exocet]

This is a lot more extensible than individual apps on your iPhone

[Donnie Darko]

I'm confused sorry Do I need my computer to be running to push push notifications to the iPhone? Or any kind of Growl notification is basically "pushable" regardless if your computer is on or not.. ?

[thatfilthyspringbok]

Originally Posted by Donnie Darko

I'm confused sorry Do I need my computer to be running to push push notifications to the iPhone? Or any kind of Growl notification is basically "pushable" regardless if your computer is on or not.. ?

Prowl receives notifications displayed by Growl on your computer for events triggered by applications running on your computer, not on the iPhone.

If the computer is off, Growl isn't running and neither are the apps, so they can't trigger notifications to be sent to your phone.

It's basically a way to monitor things happening on your Mac at home, while you're out and about.

[matthewlesh]

The thing is that with me at least i don't own a desktop... making this app a little useless..

I admire the idea but at the rate laptops are overtaking desktops it seems a little bit outdated.

That's my two cents.

[Linux_insidev2]

Originally Posted by bok

Looking at hooking it up server side to push alerts from my server out via it instead of SMS.

I did just that, using the supplied Perl script you don't need to connect to a growl system.

I hooked it into Nagios, which will sms me only if the network connection on the nagios machine is down

This will save me some bucks

[xfodder]

Originally Posted by matthewlesh

The thing is that with me at least i don't own a desktop... making this app a little useless..

I admire the idea but at the rate laptops are overtaking desktops it seems a little bit outdated.

That's my two cents.

growl runs on any apple computer ...

i am definitely buying this app ... it looks great. i can be downloading via transmission and not having to check whether my download has finished. Anything that means i don't have to be in close proximity to my computer = win ... you may not be able to send commands but ... maybe mac app developers will release small iphone apps to send commands, which would make this even cooler ...

[Linux_insidev2]

It's great when you've got a torrent box separate to your main machine like I do

[bok]

Originally Posted by Linux_insidev2

I did just that, using the supplied Perl script you don't need to connect to a growl system.

I hooked it into Nagios, which will sms me only if the network connection on the nagios machine is down

This will save me some bucks

Works well for my custom stuff too



-bok

[Donnie Darko]

Originally Posted by matthewlesh

The thing is that with me at least i don't own a desktop... making this app a little useless..

I admire the idea but at the rate laptops are overtaking desktops it seems a little bit outdated.

That's my two cents.

Word.

Come on Apple, approve iTweet reply already

[ctd]

Set this up for growl notifications from my desktop+laptop when the machine's been >5 minutes idle.

I imagine it'll be an interesting balance tweaking priorities so i don't get notifications i don't care (enough) about being pushed.

[wholikespotatoes]

Anyone thought of some cool ways to use this...

would love some ideas other than for Adium and Transmission.

[tcn33]

Originally Posted by Linux_insidev2

It's great when you've got a torrent box separate to your main machine like I do

Agreed. Does it work on multiple machines simultaneously, i.e can you push Growl notifications from more than one Mac?

[bok]

Originally Posted by tcn33

Agreed. Does it work on multiple machines simultaneously, i.e can you push Growl notifications from more than one Mac?

Yes.

[Exocet]

I reckon to give you the reverse of this, if somebody writes an app to allow Quicksilver commands to be executed remotely they'd be onto a winner

[dotnet]

Wow, a free paging service! How cool. I wonder how long they can keep it up, and how well it'll scale.

Cheers
Steffen.