There is a very cute tool called Growl, written for OSX. The tool basically serves as a notifier for different applications. For example, you can set it up for iTunes and whenever the songs shuffle, you get a cute little window appearing on the screen and informing you about it. Of course, there are better ways of use it…
One extension of this program is called growlnotify. It’s a “shell” tool that invokes growl and allows you to send notifications to the screen directly from a shell.
You can find the program here.
But briefly, open a shell window and type:
$> growlnotify -m “test”
Now, for me this become pretty useful because i use the shell scripts a lot (for batch and cron).
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