I appreciate the work here. I don't know that I'm going to use half of your changes, but there are some grammar fixes and whatnot which are good improvements.
Chris On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:05 PM, James Shepherdson < [email protected]> wrote: > I copy-edited the text of the App Store description for Growl 1.3, because > it was bothering me. The edited text is below. Feel free to mention any > errors I didn't catch. > > Additionally, some comments about functionality: > New themes are easy to install, but not easy to uninstall (unless I'm > missing something). Adding the ability to uninstall themes should be > trivial, and would be a useful feature. > > ========== > > Growl is the ultimate notification system for the Mac. It's the easiest > way to know what's going on with other applications while you're busy > working on something else. > > One day, we were working with pictures in iPhoto while waiting for an > important email to arrive. Every time a new email came in, it interrupted > our iPhoto workflow when we had to switch to Mail. We had no way of knowing > which email was the one we wanted; we had to keep clicking back and forth > every time there was a new one. At the end of the day, we decided that we > needed a solution to this problem, and thus Growl was born. > > Never before has there been an application that personalizes notifications > in such an effective way. You can receive notifications in several ways, > such as seeing them on screen, receiving them via email, or even having them > spoken to you. Plus, if you know a bit about web technologies > (CSS/XHTML/Javascript), you can make a custom Growl style that fits your > tastes. > > Some more AWESOME features: > > - You can personalize your notifications. Choose Growl's presentation, > look, and feel. > - Growl keeps working even when you aren't. Come back to your Mac and > review what happened while you were gone with the Rollup view. > - It has an easy-to-use Applications tab for controlling which > notifications you receive and which get blocked. > - You can hear your notifications with text-to-speech, great for those who > are visually impaired. > - Keep track of your notifications with awesome notification history, so > you can check back on old messages. > - A variety of styles come pre-installed with Growl, and you can easily > install new ones. > - Make your own Growl styles quickly and easily with web technologies to > give Growl your own custom look and feel. > - You can send Growl notifications from Cocoa, AppleScript, or over a > network. > - Networking allows two or more macs to forward notifications one another. > - You can get your notifications on the iPhone and iPad via Prowl. > > Millions of people need Growl and you do too. Seriously! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/growldiscuss/-/YxZl3U8HYIYJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
