Had not heard of either of those.  Notify.io's desktop client for OSX
has a very out of date framework, but it could be updated using
GrowlVersionDetective to our latest framework (see
http://growl.info/downloads#generaldownloads, a quick test shows it as
working with our 2.0 framework put in place of it's 1.2 framework.

On Jun 4, 9:10 am, alexschomb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Daniel,
>
> Thank you for your fast answer. Too bad this isn't yet possible with Growl
> or Prowl. I understand that GNTP could offer such a similarity while
> running on my own server, but honestly to me it sounds like too much work
> right now to set this up. I already had a look at Boxcar in the past and do
> share your view. I guess I'll need to take a look at openpush.im or
> notify.io (the latter is said to be supported in GfW already).
>
> With best regards,
>
> Alex
>
> Am Dienstag, 4. Juni 2013 14:58:53 UTC+2 schrieb Daniel Siemer:
>
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> > At this time there is no way to receive Prowl messages on your laptop
> > to my knowledge.  Boxcar has a desktop app, that can talk to Growl,
> > but from my limited experience with it, it's a very bad choice (Im not
> > sure they have even updated it since it's initial beta release a
> > couple years ago, and it uses ugly tech and broke frequently)
>
> > Depending on your situation, what is sending, and where these
> > notifications are being sent to Prowl, you could use our networking
> > (GNTP) and either subscription to the server (which then you only need
> > a fixed domain name or ip address for the server), or Back To My Mac/
> > dynamic DNS for forwarding to the laptop, however Growl.app as a
> > server doesn't have offline caching of any sort, if the computer you
> > want to receive notes is offline, they wouldn't go through.
>
> > If anyone else knows of a general purpose desktop solution for
> > receiving notifications from a service similar to Prowl, we would be
> > interested to hear about it.
>
> > On Jun 3, 12:19 pm, alexschomb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Dear mailing list,
>
> > > I'd like to *receive* messages sent via Prowl (
> >http://www.prowlapp.com/static/prowl.pl) on my MacBook with Growl. Or is
> > > there any other way to send a Growl message to my Mac without knowing my
> > > MacBooks IP address? The Growl client or any service client on my
> > MacBook
> > > would need to communicate with an external server (Prowl, Bring Your
> > Own,
> > > ...) to receive the notifications.
>
> > > Does anyone know any service or script offering such functionality?
>
> > > Just in case you ask, I already know that it is possible to send my
> > Growl
> > > notifications via Prowl to ProwlApp on my iPhone, but this is not what
> > I'm
> > > asking for.
>
> > > Thanks for your help. With best regards,
>
> > > Alex

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