Notification center on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) and OS X (>= 10.8) is where you can see all of your notifications in one place. On iOS it can be pulled down from the top of the device by sliding your finger down from the top of the screen, on OS X it can be opened by clicking on ...
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How do I turn off App Store notifications in Mountain Lion
The App Store on Mountain Lion pushes update notifications through Notification Center. Unfortunately, this also happens for users that are not system administrators (and so cannot run the App Store). ...
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How can I trigger a Notification Center notification from an AppleScript or shell script?
I'd love to be able to take advantage of 10.8's Notification Center features in AppleScripts and shell scripts I write.
Is there a built-in command or a third-party library I can use from either an ...
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How can I permanently dismiss Updates Available notifications?
With the Notification Center in Mountain Lion, I get an alert when software updates are available. The problem is, my only options are 'Details' and 'Update'. I don't want to interrupt my work to ...
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How to hide notification center button in Mountain Lion?
I am using Mountain Lion.
The only advantage (for me) over the gesture is that Option + clicking the button enables/disables showing alerts and banners (toggles the switch in the notifications ...
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No email notifications when Mail.app isn't running?
On Mountain Lion, I don't get email notifications in Notification Center when Mail.app isn't running.
This is not the expected behaviour (it is inconsistent with the Mail.app behaviour on iOS) and ...
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Hide specific calendars from Notification Center
I currently have five Calendar events displaying in Notification Center at a time. However, I have one specific calendar that I'd like to hide from it, as it has too many events for the ...
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What hooks exist into Notification Center / twitter so that I can tweet programmatically?
I'm specifically looking to design a custom action for LaunchBar so that I can initiate a tweet from that utility. Since Notification Center has a "Click to tweet" button, I wondered if Notification ...
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Disappearing Alerts - Notification Center not working as per Preference Settings
I'm trying to understand how to get Notifications working properly in Mountain Lion. I understand all the concepts about how to enable them, and configure them etc, but it doesn't seem to work as ...
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How can I force Mountain Lion's Messages app to refresh a conversation?
Sometimes when an iMessage comes in and I switch to the Messages app, the conversation doesn't contain the new message.
I know the message was received because an alert banner popped up with the ...
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Does Notification Center have keyboard shortcuts?
Are there any keyboard shortcuts for controlling Notification Center on OS X Mountain Lion? Of particular interest is a shortcut equivalent of the Click to Tweet button that appears at the top of ...
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How to hide preview of text contents from Messages.app notifications in Mountain lion?
In Mountain Lion's Notification Centre, I don't like having a notification pop up with the contents of an iMessage text I just got, but I do want to have notifications about it happening.
Is there a ...
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Twitter And Facebook Integration Missing In Notification center?
I have recently installed Mountain Lion and noticed that 'Sharing' via Facbook and Twitter are missing!
I have checked the System Preferences to enable this feature but I am stuck. Can anyone help ...
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How can I disable the “Welcome, Name!” banner notification for Game Center?
As per this question I've found banners to cause slowdown on iOS 5, it turns out the "welcome, you have been signed in" Game Center message does this too, and on occasion it will interupt me several ...
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Where can I find the Mountain Lion (Notification Center) notification sound?
I've been searching around for the little sound (the default one) when a notification is presented (on Mountain Lion Notification Center) but I can't find it. Example: http://d.pr/a/P5xo (sound ...
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Show github notifications in Mountain Lion Notification Center
Simply put: Is there a way to show the notifications on github in the notification center of the new Mountain Lion?
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Weather widget in notification center of iOS5
Is there a way to put weather widget into notification center of iOS5 for iPad?
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Change location of notification center alerts
Is it possible to change where alerts in the notification center appear on the screen? Alerts appearing in the top right tend to cover up work I'm doing more often than not and I would prefer, say, ...
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How can I perform the swipe gesture for quickly accessing Notification Center?
The swipe gesture for accessing Notification Centre is the same as for going back in Safari (amongst others). How can I consistently get it to do one or the other to stop me using the wrong gesture?
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iPhone Gmail App won't stop sending notifications
I tested out the Gmail App on my iPhone 4 (iOS 5.1.1) and have now stopped as it keeps asking me for my login details. I haven't deleted it.
It is continuing to send notifications even though I have ...
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get a notification when my machine is pinged
I'd like to be able to be notified in any way (sound, notification, growl, etc) when someone pings my machine.
Is that possible?
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Do any OS X twitter apps integrate well with Notification Center?
I'm looking for an app to let me keep the twitter integration from OS X (where I can tweet from Notification Center (hereafter abbreviated NC)) but also have my mentions from NC open in the app as ...
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Notification Center on iOS 6 is not removing deleted emails
After upgrading to iOS 6 on my 4S i'm seeing that after I delete an email in the mail app itself, it was SUPPOSED to remove it from notification center.
Now even after i've deleted messages without ...
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Facebook Page notifications in OSX 10.8.2 Notification Center
I currently have my Facebook account linked up to my Notification Center on my Macbook Pro - great!
However, I do have a Facebook page (relatively low traffic) and I'd like to receive notifications ...
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How to make the Notification Center menu icon glow, (like Twitter does) when notifications are present?
Notification Center is pretty great, however, it's very annoying that I have to click the menubar icon or make a gesture to actually open the notification pane.
How to make the Notification Center ...
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Messages appearing on locked screen
How can I hide text messages from the locked screen of my iPhone 4S?
I find that having a password is useless as everyone could read messages from the locked screen.
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Receiving an Unknown iOS Notification — Audio Only
I occasionally receive an iOS notification (an Apple push notification) that has sound only and no text. Because it has no text, it does not appear in the notification center and I therefore cannot ...
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Get OS X Notification Center State From the Command Line
On OS X 10.8, users can disable Notification Center for a single day. Is there a way to check if it is enabled from the command line?.
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Facebook notification sound in OSX: cannot switch off
In OSX Mountain Lion I'm getting beeps every time a facebook notification comes in. In System Preferences > Notifications > Facebook i have set my alert style to None. In the list on the left, the ...
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Can I send Notification Center items to my iPhone using Pushover or Prowl?
The title pretty much sums it up. I often feel like having notifications on my iPhone are a lot easier to notice, especially if you step away from the computer for a few moments to do something and ...
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What to do if OS X Facebook notifications are unreliable?
with the release of OS X 10.8.2, Facebook notifications have been introduced. But so far, I'm having problems with the reliability of those: they only appear randomly. Compared to the amount of ...
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How to stop the Mail app from running every 10 minutes on the Mac?
I have Mountain Lion on an 27" iMac, and recently, for some reason, the Mail app launches every 10 minutes or so, and I have to quit it every time.
In the Preferences of Mail, I already tried every ...
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Disabling Notification Center pull-down (or re-enabling Safari swipe action)
This is a bit of a nit-picky thing, but it's annoyed me ever since I upgraded to iOS 5. I use my iPhone quite a bit for web surfing, and would often use the swipe action to return back to the top ...
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How do I get the weather widget in the Notifications Center of the iPad?
This is driving me crazy because I see this in notification center in a lot of a screenshots for iOS reviews:
What is the app that adds weather to the notification center?
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Can the alert sound in Mountain Lion's notification center be customized?
Is there a way to change the default "Basso" alert sound in Mountain Lion's Notification Center? What I'd really like is support for application-specific notification sounds, so I can tell without ...
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How do I add all Tweets to the Mountain Lion Notification Center?
I love the Notification center gesture and would love to be able to glance at my full Twitter stream that way. How can I put all of Twitter into that notification area?
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Why is my iPhone playing the notification sound but no notification is showing?
A few minutes ago I was listening to music on my iPhone and the music faded out and then the notification sound played but no notifcation showed. (it has done this about 10-15 times now) Does anyone ...
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Notification center widget
Two of the iPhone's default apps, Weather and Stocks, create little widgets in the Notification Center. They aren't exactly notifications, can display graphics (weather) or animations (stock ticker), ...
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Do I need to buy Growl in order to use the iterm2 grown feature?
Seems the notification is not working, or do I need to buy the Growl from App Store in order to use?
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Can I speed up the auto-dismissal of Notification Center banners?
I like Notification Center, but banners linger a bit too long before auto-dismissing.
I'm aware of the popular two-finger swipe trick to immediately dismiss a banner, but I'm looking for an automated ...
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Why do Twitter notifications in Notification Center open in Safari?
Is it possible to load Twitter.app instead of opening Safari when clicking Twitter notifications in the Notification Center?
The current behaviour really annoys me because it keeps making me sign in ...
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When does the Mac App Store produce notifications?
According to Apple's page on Mountain Lion, the Mac App Store is supposed to send you notifications:
Mac App Store notifications
The Mac App Store notifies you when
updates are available ...
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Mountain Lion Notification Center glitches
I’m experiencing a number of issues with the Mountain Lion Notification Center and Dock. Just wanted to check whether anyone else is having similar problems.
On my 2011 iMac, the Dock doesn’t show ...
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How do I remove drafts from the iOS Notification Center?
When I pull down the Notification center on either my iPad or iPhone, it displays 5 emails (I have it set to that), but they are not the unread emails at the top of my inbox. They all appear to be ...
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Have Apps with Notification Center Support Use Growl on Lion
I'm still on Lion, and recently noticed that a lot of my apps are being updated with Notification Center support. Since I'm not on Mountain Lion and therefore don't have Notification Center, I won't ...
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How to figure out what app is beeping at me?
Every now and then, on my Mac, I hear a bell. I have no idea what app it is, or why it's beeping at me.
My first thought was that it's coming from the Notification System in OS X 10.8 (I never heard ...
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Facebook notifications do not open a browser window when clicked
I am correctly getting notifications from Facebook in Mountain Lion's notification center, but when I click them expecting to be brought into the browser (Chrome is my default browser) to see the ...
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Notification Center preferences shows duplicate apps
I was running the Tweetbot for Mac Beta, and still had it installed when I installed the full release from the Mac App Store.
Now I have 2 entries in my preferences for Notification Center, and I ...
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More notification center keyboard shortcuts
I know there is a system wide keyboard shortcut to open the notification center and once opened you can navigate your notifications with the up/down buttons on your keyboard.
But is there also a way ...
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Sounds are not working on Mountain Lion Notification Center
Although I see an option in System Preferences > Notifications to enable applications to pop a sound on new notifications, Mountain Lion is not actually playing those sounds.
Has Anyone run into ...
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How to remap the “Send tweet” hotkey?
In Mountain Lion there is a "tweet sheet" when sharing from either notification center or an app. The default hotkey for "send tweet" is CMDShiftD. I'd like to use something like CMDRETURN. Is there a ...
