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See Software Update notifications as a non-admin user
Authored by: marriott on Mar 03, '09 09:38:13AM

I do something similar-- I have a Twitter account that is subscribed to the "softwareupdate" account on Twitter. Then I use a perl script to listen on Twitter, and post a "sticky" growl notification when it sees something new posted on the Twitter.

This can be extended to other sorts of alerts by finding more "notification" type feeds on Twitter.

Of course the solution in this hint is less crufty and better aimed at solving the problem at hand. Just thought I'd mention my set-up for the sake of discussion.



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