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Just my 2 cents.Īpplications can use Growl to send event notifications to your screen (Download finished, Backup finished, New Articles in your News Reader, New Mail, Your power plug has come out, your power plug was inserted, you have 70% battery left, a disk was just plugged in, a disk has been unplugged, your iPod was just attached, etc.) But once you understand you can tell Growl to not display a specific event, or change its color/stlye, or make it disappear after a few seconds, then I think Growl becomes a tool rather than an annoyance. I think some people that try Growl, or have it installed for them as a side effect of installing another app do not understand that they are in control, and just see a bunch of new pop-up alerts that they need to keep dismissing (as may apps default to keeping their alert on the screen). And there are some plug-ins for Apple applications so they will use Growl (Safari, Mail, iTunes).Īnd the great thing is, you get to control what alerts you get, how they will look, and how long they will stay on the screen. Many apps you already have will be happy to use Growl. It can tell you when you a get a new IP address, when a network or external volume is mounted, it too can tell you about switching between AC power, battery, or running from UPS power.īut the number of 3rd party apps that will hook into Growl is huge. If you choose to run HardwareGrowler, it can tell when the following device interfaces make or break connections: Airport, Bluetooth, Firewire, or USB.

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The Growl download includes an 'Extra' called HardwareGrowler. Plugging in the power cord comes up green and only stays on the screen a few seconds. I have the Growl Unplugged alerts set so that unplugging my power cord comes up in bold Orange and stays on the screen.

The official Growl website and my own experience as a happy Growl user.UnPlugged to tell me when my laptop power cable has popped off

growlnotify, the command-line interface for Growl.

HardwareGrowler, a tool which notifies you when hardware devices or network interfaces are connected and disconnected.

GrowlTunes, a tool which notifies you when the current track playing in iTunes changes.

GrowlMail, a mail notification applet that integrates with the Apple iLife Mail.app application.

GrowlDict, an OS X Service that displays Dictionary definitions in Growl notifications.

The Growl package comes with several helpful applets which exemplify Growl functionality. The user can also set the desired transparency level of the notification windows. Also, preset actions can be performed when the user clicks on the notification window. Themes are available to change the appearance of the notification windows, which can be made to appear for whatever length of time is desired by the user.

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Finally, as Growl's popularity has grown, many third-party software products now come with Growl integration out of the box. Growl can also be used by plugins to applications for instance, both Firefox and Thunderbird have plugins ( Growl Download Notification and yamb, respectively) which can be used to call Growl. Growl can also be easily invoked by scripts, as it includes a command-line utility that accepts plaintext input. An API is available to allow developers to build Growl support into their applications.

iTunes integration, showing current track name, artist name and album art.

Connection and disconnection of network storage volumes.

Connection and disconnection of network interfaces.

Connection and disconnection of USB and Firewire devices.

Various IM operations (contacts signing on/signing off).

Receiving new email via software mail client or Gmail.

Its abilities include, but are not limited to, notification of: It allows graphics and text to be displayed for a user-specified period of time somewhere on the screen.

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Growl is an extremely flexible user notification system for Mac OS X.

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