“We are hard at work on a new application designed to give you a greater degree of control over not just your Griffin peripherals, but many of the most popular applications and features of Mac OS X,” Griffin Technlogy’s website explains. “The software is called Proxi and it’s designed to let you configure all of your Griffin devices in one easy to use interface. Not only that, but Proxi allows you to define custom hot keys, monitor Mail, iChat, and RSS feeds, execute a repeating task, and much more.”
The Proxi beta is now open to the public. Proxi is compatible with any Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
More info, screenshots, and download link for the latest release (Proxi v0.19) here.
Advertisements:
• Apple’s brand new iPod Hi-Fi speaker system. Home stereo. Reinvented. Available now for $349 with free shipping.
• Apple’s new Mac mini. Intel Core, up to 4 times faster. Starting at just $599. Free shipping.
• MacBook Pro. The first Mac notebook built upon Intel Core Duo with iLife ’06, Front Row and built-in iSight. Starting at $1999. Free shipping.
• iMac. Twice as amazing — Intel Core Duo, iLife ’06, Front Row media experience, Apple Remote, built-in iSight. Starting at $1299. Free shipping.
• iPod Radio Remote. Listen to FM radio on your iPod and control everything with a convenient wired remote. Just $49.
• iPod. 15,000 songs. 25,000 photos. 150 hours of video. The new iPod. 30GB and 60GB models start at just $299. Free shipping.
• Connect iPod to your television set with the iPod AV Cable. Just $19.
Kind of interesting…
Brushed Metal is soooo 10.3.
And am I just not l33t? I’ve never heard of “Griffen devices”, whatever those are.
Apa ini?
Yeah i really don’t like brushed metal either, i think the “fat” toolbar in mail 2.0 is the way to go though, in ALL programs mind you apple!
Wake Up call for Mr Jobs. Somebody took your Automator app and made it worthwhile.
Proxi seems like a scaled-down version of Automator, with a dash of Growl-style notifications added for goodness.
Promising app.
The connection to animator is not coincidental. Griffin is smart to exploit the potential that Automator has demonstrated. Apple uswers get an interesting app, Griffin gets more $, Apple gets a stronger developer. Good stuff.
If Apple was the best at everything, people will turn away. Sometimes, if they have a unique idea, they use it to prime the pump to get others moving.
Griffin has grown big time with the iPod. Good for them– apparently, they’re not dumb and know that making a Mac look good makes them look good, too.
Pauly,
Crawl back undr your rock and come back out when you learn to spell.
Griffin (note the spelling) has been making iPod accessories for longer than most. And electronic accessories, not designer cases.
The “Using an AirClick to control volume” movie is way too fast. It’s like some wizzkid showing off his/her skills.
Maybe Proxi can connect to my iTrip in the garbage can.
Griffin has been making Mac accessories for about 13 years. They used to make a handy little adapter with about 8 DIP switches on it called the Mac Sync Adapter. It allowed you to connect virtually any monitor to any Mac (back when the connections and signals were very proprietary). You could change the signal sync around to different pins. Force the Mac to display certain resolutiona and sync rates for multisync monitors, etc. Very cool little device. When I worked at Shreve Systems we sold them in bucket loads.
Thorin,
I bought one of those directly from Griffin. I loved it. It allowed me to use virtually any monitor with a Mac.
Back then you could call Griffin (even late into the evening their time) and get hold of the engineer that actually designed the device. He’d even politely walk you through some undocumented aspects of the device so you could do some truly cool stuff with it.
I have not bought much Griffin stuff as of late, but they were a *great* company to work with in the old days. I hope they are still the same.
You’re forgetting the coolest Griffin gadget of all, the Power Mate, the glowing blue jog shuttle…it’s so damned useful in so many apps.
If you do ANYTHING in iMovie or GarageBand more than casually, get one, it makes life a lot easier.
I also have one of the Griffin adapters for my (back then) gargantuan 21″ monitor with separate BNC inputs.