That’s right, now you can get Growl on the Mac App Store. It’s been updated to version 1.3 with new features and a new price tag. Yep, you’re going to have to start paying for Growl, but let’s be honest, it’s worth a lot more than $1.99. Rollup is the biggest new feature; it aggregates all of the notifications you missed while idle and presents them to you in a window. But wait, there’s more.

Growl is an open-source notification system for OS X. It lets a user control and unify the notifications of any application that supports it, and lots of apps do. It’s one of my favorite system apps because it’s a.) free and b.) dead useful. But there is a problem: it’s been showing up on some systems without the user’s knowledge, and ends up being reinstalled if it’s removed. But it’s not Growl’s fault.

If you haven’t come across Growl yet, you need to go and get it now. Growl has become a part of my daily usage on my Mac, seamlessly integrating with dozens of shareware applications. For those that don’t know, Growl is a notifications system for Mac OS X – hundreds, maybe even thousands, of Mac more »

Growl is a utility that I just would not to live without, it is a notification system for Mac OS X. Once installed it is added to your System Preferences and will display messages for other applications such as Mail, iTunes and Adium. Version 1.1 adds “global positioning system” which keeps messages from overlapping on more »