Snarl is a notification application system that is inspired by Growl. The program is designed to allow applications display a nice alpha-blended message on the screen. Snarl does not hijack the current focused window, nor does it force the taskbar to be visible. Notifications can either be cancelled by clicking on them, or left to disappear automatically if ignored for a period of time. The application can display many message at any one time; new messages are simply displayed beneath existing ones. The application displaying the message can also update the content at any time, remove the message, or specify an icon to be displayed.

Snarl is basically all about displaying notifications. The notifications may be displayed on-screen in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes. The notifications may be spoken out loud; and they may even be forwarded to a web-based notification environment, your mobile phone, PDA, or another computer. The program does this by simply acting as an intermediary between the application creating the notification and the end user and, because Snarl provides a standard API for the sending application and a standard user interface to the end user, it makes it an incredibly powerful tool.

Want to check it out? Visit Snarlapp.

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