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==Details== Growl is installed as a [[preference pane]] added to the Mac OS X [[System Preferences (Mac OS X)|System Preferences]]. This pane may be used to enable and disable Growl's notifications for specific applications or specific notifications for each application. Each notification provides some information, such as "Download Finished" or the name of the current [[iTunes]] track. The software comes with multiple display [[Plug-in (computing)|plugins]], providing the user with different style options for presenting the notifications. Display plugins include visual styles as well as the ability to send notifications via email, SMS, or push notifications.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://howlapp.com/ |title=Howl β a Growl app for iPhone and iPad |publisher=Tanka Tech |date=2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313161421/http://howlapp.com/ |archive-date=13 March 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Additional third-party plugins or [[script (computing)|script]]s exist to add Growl notifications to [[iChat]], [[Mail (OS X)|Mail]], [[Mozilla Thunderbird|Thunderbird]], [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]], and [[iTunes]]. Application developers may make use of the Growl [[Application programming interface|API]] to send notifications to their users. Growl includes [[Language binding|bindings]] for developers who use the [[Objective-C]], [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Perl]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Tcl]], [[AppleScript]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], and [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] programming languages.
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