Hiss

Charlie Sorrel:

If you went ahead and loaded the developer preview of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion onto your Mac, you likely already played around with the new Notification Center. Until you got bored and fired up Growl once again so you could enjoy notifications from all your apps, not just Mail and Calendar. Wouldn’t it be great, though, if all those Growl-capable apps could talk to Notification Center instead? With Hiss, they can.

This looks like a great way to bridge that gap until developers implement Notification Center into their apps.

Growl-Gate

John Gruber:

On the Mac, Notification Center alerts are decidedly inspired by those ofGrowl, a longstanding open source project that is now sold for $2 in the Mac App Store. I hereby predict “Apple ripped off Growl” as the mini-scandal of the day.