Do you use Growl?

[acxz]

I use growl for Safari, Adium, Coda and Transmission. It's just more convenient to have a big black box you can click on to take you straight to the window that sent the alert.

 

[boast]

the Dock icon for Mail shows the number of unread messages

but with growl it tells me who emailed me, and if its worth checking. and just clicking it once opens the email

....the Dock icon for Yahoo shows number of unread IMs...

but it doesn't tell me what the IM was, who IMd me, if its worth reading, and what it says in a quick look. with growl i can read the IM and click the bubble to quickly respond back.

the Download folder in the Dock bounces...

doesn't really get my attention, nor tell me WHICH download finished

the Archive Utility progress window closes...

I couldn't tell, I always have firefox in fullscreen.

either right-click the iTunes icon in the Dock to see the current song,

thats more of a hassle than a quick bubble showing you whats playing and disappearing. (like youcontrol:tunes)

 

[prostuff1]

NO!

It's the most pointless and irritating application in existence! You all know those stupid pop-up balloons that come out of Windows tray to tell you stuff like "you plugged in a usb-stick" and you go like "oh no way I didn't notice?!" in very sarcastic manner. Growl is that, just worse. Click "next" in iTunes and Growl tells you that "hey dude j00 play anuther track" and you are like "right, I meant to u freaking brick". First thing I do when installing Windows is disable the tray pop-ups from registry altogether and first thing I don't do in Mac is install Growl.

They are "similar" to windows tool tray tips. The difference i have found is that windows tips stick around which is annoying, unless ou disable them.

I generally use it for... almost everything. Adium when it is in the background cause it pops up a summary of what has been typed. In mail, to get a preview of the message that comes in. In Transmission to let me know when seeding is done. and then an addon call Hardware growl as it gives me connection deatails for external HD's, airport connections, ethernet connections, and more.

 

[K3mp]

It is worth it just for adium. I like to know when people get on and off. It is also very convenient for firefox downloads and transmission.

 

[okrelayer]

I only use growl for NetNewsWire. I do not use it for adium or the other programs that could use it.

 

[majordude]

You all know those stupid pop-up balloons that come out of Windows tray to tell you stuff like "you plugged in a usb-stick" and you go like "oh no way I didn't notice?!" in very sarcastic manner. Growl is that, just worse.

Funny!

 

[monkey86]

yeah i do its pretty cool

 

[pjrobertson]

Nope, don't use it. Plan to though, looks useful for some applications (and annoying for others).

You can enable/disable growl for just the apps that you want. Just go into the growl pref pane (in system preferences and untick/remove the plugins you don't want.

 

[koobcamuk]

Primarily used for mail. I like being able to read a little bit of my mail when it comes through so I know who it is or what it's about.