Growl Prowl user push notifications to iPhone

I miss you 2009 - like this song is saying. But since it's history - let's welcome 2010 and make it a quality TNT one ... not that 2009 was too boring ;-)

After 8 hours of listening premium sky.fm classics and jazz - and a lot of self-questions like "hey what's this song or who's the author - to remember" - I searched for an iPhone solution and got one composed of 3 steps:

1. install the Prowl application on the iPhone to receive "generic user oriented push notifications" that are generated on your Windows or your Mac

2. if you have Mac you're lucky; I installed the Growl for Windows desktop app and started to play with it

3. then installed the iTunes plugin for Growl which sends alerts from the laptop which is singing via the home sounds system elsewhere


Now I can enjoy staying everywhere in the house and never missing the name of a good song ... for my musical knowledge ... because of the notifications and because of the history with them :-)


ps: I'm joking - the big usability of this platform is for serious business - I just provided an end-to-end example which is also usable ... but you can integrate your scripts and use their api for small business monitoring ... for example receiving alerts based on some news, some databases events, web events, infrastructure monitoring, there is even a plugin for receiving an alert when a compilation finished so you can just optimize time and not play ping-pong elsewhere because "hei it's compiling" etc etc long list of ideas and just a few applications that you can inspire from this sample list - if we are to talk strictly about Growl ... but you can think API ;-)