On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Derik DeLong <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Ian <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Someone has probably considered this before, but here it is.
>> Wouldn't it be useful if websites could send growl messages to your
>> computer? For example, you're a Netflix subscriber and Netflix has
>> just received your latest DVD. A growl message pops up telling you  
>> so,
>> and what DVD you'll be getting next. I know it might be difficult to
>> allow websites to communicate with personal computers, but I'm sure
>> there's an easy way. Thoughts?
>
> I like the idea, but wouldn't it be fairly easy to make a small script
> that gets run periodically checking your personalized RSS feed and
> simply outputting its contents to Growl alerts?  It might even be
> possible to get existing RSS clients with Growl support to do this.

You might look into the Prowl API.

-Evan



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