Many have already received invitations from
Google or from their friends on the new
Google Wave communication
service .
Google Wave is designed to combine the functions of email, instant messaging, chat, forum, co-editing documents, etc.
The main client for Google Wave is a browser. However, we must admit that the more stable and faster Google Wave works with the
Google Chrome browser .
At the moment,
Apple Mac OS X users are most fortunate: they have already written a client called
Waveboard , which implements and repeats all the functionality of the browser version of Google Wave.

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A distinctive feature of the
Waveboard program is integration with all notification systems of the
Mac OS X operating system:
- Update alerts using the Growl system
- Show the number of updated waves in the status menu and on the icon located in the Dock


You no longer need to separately install on
Google Gears , since it is already integrated into the
Waveboard program
itself .
Like browsers,
Waveboard also supports hotkeys.

Current program version:
Waveboard 0.11Download link:
http://d.getwaveboard.com/shine/download_waveboard.phpProgram site:
http://www.getwaveboard.comThe commercial version of
Waveboard Pro has recently appeared, which includes the following features:
- Single wave printing (currently this option is not available in the browser version of Google Wave)
- Opening unread waves directly from the status menu
- Change icon in status menu
- Automatic reset of notifications when the window is activated
- Save Wave Contents as Webarchive
- Ability to hide icons in the Dock.
The cost of the commercial version of
Waveboard Pro is
9 EUR .
For
Apple iPhone , the
Waveboard client is also available, which can be purchased on the
App Store for
$ 0.99 . The functionality of version 1.0 is the same as the desktop version. At the moment, the second version of the program that will support
Push notification has been sent to the
App Store for review.