Growl is a global notifications system for OS X

There are multiple ways to be notified, and many applications come with Growl support. Growl is an easy way to display notifications and can be used multiple different ways easily.

What can I say in this short amount of space to convey what Growl is about? I could say "Growl is awesome!", but that won't mean much. I could say that it is really easy to use, implement, and support, but that probably wouldn't mean much either.

The honest truth is there is not going to be much here to say without telling you to just go try it. If you are someone looking to start using Growl, then definitely head on over to the downloads page. Once you have Growl installed, you may want to take a look at the list of applications which already use Growl in some way. If you don't see your favorite application there, then contact the group responsible for that application and maybe you'll see it on the list soon.

Features:

- Growl is an easy way to display notifications
- Growl can be used multiple different ways easily
- It is easier to implement than coding your own solution that solves the same problem.
- Growl gives more data to the user in a manageable form than other solutions
- Growl allows the user to control their experience
- It takes minimal time to implement Growl.

What's New:

* Fixed crash on notification when Safari 4 beta is installed ([65a0bcf23292], fixing #336354)
We don't know for sure whether this also happened with Safari 4.0 release, but whether it did or not, it's fixed now.
* Fixed another crash, first seen in betas, on PowerPC machines ([0d7cf6a69fde], fixing #385444)
* Only show notifications for unread messages ([b19d240b576a])
* Took out a little more insurance against the possibility of clobbering an Apple method when running under a future version of Mail ([caae0ed9a580])
* Internal refactoring, eliminating an assumption about Mail's internal nature ([f8a902d33769] and [c36ddc8e6b22])
* Now loads its preference pane into Mail's Preferences window by method swizzling, which is explicitly supported in 64-bit Mac OS X, unlike the previous technique of class posing, which is explicitly not ([3be8b67aac72], fixing #363176)