cd ~/Desktop
curl -L -O http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cocoadialog/CocoaDialog-2.1.1.dmg
hdiutil mount CocoaDialog-2.1.1.dmg
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo ditto -rsrc /Volumes/CocoaDialog/CocoaDialog.app /usr/local/bin/CocoaDialog.app
sudo chown -R root:wheel /usr/local/bin/CocoaDialog.app
sudo chmod -R 0755 /usr/local/bin/CocoaDialog.app
hdiutil unmount /Volumes/CocoaDialog


alias cocoadialog=/usr/local/bin/CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog

# cf. http://cocoadialog.sourceforge.net/examples/bubble.sh.txt
cocoadialog bubble --no-timeout --x-placement center --y-placement center --background-top "FF0000" --background-bottom "FF0066"  \
                   --icon-file /usr/local/bin/CocoaDialog.app/Contents/Resources/info.icns --title "News" --text '<message>'

Further information:

- CocoaDialog Documentation
- CocoaDialog Examples
- growlnotify
- Pashua
- man automator

Perl script to allow sounds to be played for different events in IRSSI

Just keep adding handlers to IRSSI's pools pointing to different functions for different events or whatever you want.

use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION %IRSSI);

use Irssi;
$VERSION = '0.0.3';
%IRSSI = (
        authors     => 'Chrelad',
        contact     => 'blah@blah.blah',
        name        => 'alert',
        description => 'Play sounds for different events in IRSSI.',
        url         => 'http://google.com',
        license     => 'GNU General Public License',
        changed     => '$Date: 2007-02-07 12:00:00 +0100 (Thu, 7 Feb 2008) $'
);

#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# Created by Chrelad
# Feb 7, 2008
#--------------------------------------------------------------------

#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# The sound playing function for public message
#--------------------------------------------------------------------

sub pub_msg {
        my ($server,$msg,$nick,$address,$target) = @_;
        `mplayer -quiet ~/file.mp3 > /dev/null`;
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# Irssi::signal_add_last / Irssi::command_bind
#--------------------------------------------------------------------

Irssi::signal_add_last("message public", "pub_msg");
#- end