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 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 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 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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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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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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Can I dismiss a Notification Center Alert using the mouse?
Is it possible to dismiss a sticky "alert" (from Notification Center) from the upper-right corner of the screen by using the mouse?
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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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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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Is there a way to add items to notification center through terminal or other means?
I'm wanting to add specific Websites to notification center (the stack exchange network, for example) and I want to be able to see various notifications that the website would send me.
Is there a ...
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Keyboard, notification, or menubar shortcut to compose mail message?
Im looking for a quick way to bring up a compose mail message dialogue.
Either a keyboard shortcut, or even a little tool within mountain lion's new notification center would be cool.
Anyone got ...
